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The Comedian

9.0 74 mins Comedy   Drama   TV Movie   1957
Playhouse 90   CBS  
Director(s): John Frankenheimer

Release Date: 14 Thu, Feb 1957

Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedience from his staff and heaps abuse on those in lesser positions than his. His most vituperative behavior, however, is reserved for his weak-willed brother, Lester, whom Sammy has hired as his assistant but whom he really uses as his whipping boy.

Casts of The Comedian

Mickey Rooney

as Sammy Hogarth

Kim Hunter

as Julie Hogarth

Edmond O'Brien

as Al Preston

Mel Tormé

as Lester Hogarth

Constance Ford

as Connie

Whit Bissell

as Otis Elwell

King Donovan

as The Director

Eddie Ryder

as Jake

H.M. Wynant

as Sonny

Michael Ross

as Masseur

Claudette Colbert

as Self (intro)

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