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Jack Oakie (born Lewis Delaney Offield; November 12, 1903 – January 23, 1978) was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television. He portrayed Napaloni in Chaplin 's The Great Dictator (1940), receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor .
Jack Oakie was a comedian and actor who starred in stage, radio and film comedies from the 1920s to the 1960s. He was known for his "triple take" comedy, his role in Chaplin's The Great Dictator, and his deafness.
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Jack Oakie. Actor: The Great Dictator. "America's Joyboy," beefy, plump-faced comedian Jack Oakie, was one of the funniest top and second banana jokesters of stage, radio and especially film's "Golden Age."
- November 12, 1903
- January 23, 1978
Nov 11, 2022 · Here are 10 things you should know about Jack Oakie, born on November 12, 1903. The prolific Oakie was a go-to character actor for comedic second banana role...
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Jan 24, 1978 · Jack Oakie, who appeared in more than a hundred Hollywood movies, mostly as the good‐natured, somewhat dimwitted buffoon, died yesterday in Northridge, Calif., apparently from an aortic aneurysm.
Delightfully brash character actor of the 1930s and 40s, Oakie was famed for his double-takes and gleeful song-and-dance style. A vaudeville performer from the early 1920s, Oakie first hit Broadway in Mistinguette's "Innocent Eyes" (1924). Talkies proved a boon to Oakie, who was signed by...
Jul 19, 2017 · When legendary comedian Jack Oakie passed away in 1978, his wife, actress Victoria Horne Oakie, made certain that his memory would live on through America’s younger generation of aspiring...
