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THIS IS AN AUTHENTICALLY AUTOGRAPHED LP BY JACK GILFORD.. WINNIE THE POOH-17 SONGS FROM THE POOH SONG BOOK-STARRING JACK GILFORD(GOLDEN LP 95)RELEASED IN the 1960's-BACK PHOTO COVER IS SIGNED BY JACK GILFORD-CONDITION OF THE VINYL,COVER, AND AUTOGRAPH IS VG. In 1938, Gilford worked as the MC in the first downtown New York integrated nightclub, "Cafe Society". He created original spoofs on movies -- in one of them, he coined the now-common phrase "The butler did it". He was a unique blend of the earlier style of the Yiddish theater, Vaudeville and Burlesque and started the tradition of Monology such as later comedians Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen used. One of Gilford's specialties was pantomime, and this talent was put to good use by director George Abbott when he cast Gilford as the silent King Sextimus in Once upon a Mattress (Off-Broadway, 1959). Gilford shared the stage with a young Carol Burnett in this production, and reprised his performance with her in two separate televised versions of the show, in 1964 and in 1972. His talent for pantomime was also employed to a great extent in the ten years Gilford was the face of the Cracker Jack TV commercials. The most memorable of these commercials featured Gilford walking through the sleeping car of a train when he discovers two passengers passing a box of Cracker Jack back and forth between their sleeping compartments and decides to surreptitiously intercept. Gilford won many awards. He was nominated for several Tony awards for best supporting actor as Hysterium in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1963), and for his role as Herr Schultz in Cabaret (1966). He was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor in (1972) for his role as Phil Green in Save the Tiger (his co-star Jack Lemmon won for Best Actor). Gilford's career was derailed for a time. He believed deeply in social change in the United States, integration and Unions. He was quite active both socially and politically. He had to pay a price for this as many who were ruined by the 1950s political "witch hunt" of Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee along with the Hollywood blacklist. But he managed to become successful mostly through roles on the Broadway stage, such as Drink To Me Only, Romanoff and Juliet, and The Diary of Anne Frank. Some of Gilford's most memorable work was done for series television, where he made numerous guest appearances. Some notable examples: * Get Smart (1969), playing Simon the Likeable * Soap (1979), recurring role as Saul, a 4000-year-old man abducted by aliens * Taxi, (1979, 1981), two appearances as "Joe Reiger", the cold, uncaring father to Judd Hirsch's sensitive and caring "Alex Reiger" character. In one of these episodes, Gilford reprised his old "pea soup coming to a furious boil" impression * The Golden Girls, (1988, 1990), playing "Max Weinstock" * Other series: The Defenders, All in the Family, The Duck Factory, Rhoda, Night Court, Car 54, Where Are You?. In 1979 Jack Gilford won a Daytime Emmy award for his guest appearance on the children's series Big Blue Marble. Gilford and his wife, Madeline Lee, created a Jack Gilford Special in 1981 for Canadian cable CBS. At this time after forty years of night club performing, Gilford started to perform his one man shows in the 1980s. This included appearances at the Paramount Theater in Denver, as well as Town Hall NYC. He went on to became a highly recognizable and loved comedic, serious and character actor. One of his last performances was on the ABC TV series thirtysomething.
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