About The Colgate Comedy Hour
- Released on September 10, 1950
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
Main Cast of The Colgate Comedy Hour
Bud Abbott plays Self - Host (19 episodes)
Bob Hope plays Self (19 episodes)
Eddie Cantor plays Self (35 episodes)
Lou Costello plays Self - Host (18 episodes)
Dean Martin plays Self (29 episodes)
Secondary Cast of The Colgate Comedy Hour
Gloria DeHaven plays Self (2 episodes)
Ann Sheridan plays Self (2 episodes)
Kaye Ballard plays Self (2 episodes)
Frances Langford plays Self (2 episodes)
Kenny Delmar plays Self (2 episodes)
Lily Pons plays Self (2 episodes)
Beatrice Kay plays Self (2 episodes)
Sheree North plays Self (2 episodes)
Paul Douglas plays Self (2 episodes)
Jeff Chandler plays Self (2 episodes)
Debra Paget plays Self (2 episodes)
Dorothy Lamour plays Self (2 episodes)
Rhonda Fleming plays Self (2 episodes)
Franklin Pangborn plays Self (2 episodes)
Gale Storm plays Self (2 episodes)
Constance Moore plays Self (2 episodes)
Nelson Eddy plays Self (2 episodes)
Larry Fine plays Self (1 episode)
Joel Grey plays Self (4 episodes)
Les Paul plays Self (1 episode)
Anita Ekberg plays Self (1 episode)
Heather Young plays Self (1 episode)
Leonard Barr plays Self (1 episode)
Farley Granger plays Self (1 episode)
Fayard Nicholas plays Self (1 episode)
Billy Sands plays Self (1 episode)
Dave Brubeck plays Self (1 episode)
Richard Arlen plays Self (1 episode)
Joan Blondell plays Self (1 episode)
Phil Silvers plays Self (1 episode)
Ed Wynn plays Self (3 episodes)
Ralph Edwards plays Self (1 episode)
Hy Averback plays Self (1 episode)
Rocky Graziano plays Self (1 episode)
Joyce Jameson plays Self (1 episode)
Vivian Blaine plays Self (3 episodes)
Eddie Foy Jr. plays Self (1 episode)
Billy Daniels plays Self (1 episode)
Broderick Crawford plays Self (3 episodes)
Fran Allison plays Self (1 episode)
Bil Baird plays Self (1 episode)
Hedy Lamarr plays Self (3 episodes)
Ilona Massey plays Self (1 episode)
Larry Storch plays Self (1 episode)
Gene Nelson plays Self (5 episodes)
Joe Louis plays Self (1 episode)
Allan Jones plays Self (1 episode)
Brian Donlevy plays Self (1 episode)
Harry Belafonte plays Self (3 episodes)
Arthur Treacher plays Self (1 episode)
Judy Canova plays Self (1 episode)
Grace Hartman plays Self (3 episodes)
Brian Aherne plays Self (1 episode)
Teresa Brewer plays Self (1 episode)
Dennis Day plays Self (1 episode)
Brandon De Wilde plays Self (1 episode)
Jimmy Durante plays Self (14 episodes)
Reginald Denny plays Self (1 episode)
Jack Haley plays Self (1 episode)
Mickey Rooney plays Self (3 episodes)
Fay McKenzie plays Self (1 episode)
Janet Leigh plays Self (3 episodes)
Anne Jeffreys plays Self (1 episode)
Yvonne De Carlo plays Self (1 episode)
Eddie Bracken plays Self (1 episode)
Adele Jergens plays Self (1 episode)
Connie Russell plays Self (1 episode)
William Bendix plays Self (1 episode)
Buddy Rich plays Self (1 episode)
Lynn Loring plays Self (1 episode)
Ezio Pinza plays Self (1 episode)
Connee Boswell plays Self (1 episode)
Robert Strauss plays Self (3 episodes)
Jaye P. Morgan plays Self (1 episode)
Andy Devine plays Self (1 episode)
Gloria Grahame plays Self (1 episode)
Claudette Colbert plays Self (1 episode)
Walter Abel plays Self (1 episode)
Ralph Bellamy plays Self (1 episode)
Tony Curtis plays Self (4 episodes)
Louis Prima plays Self (1 episode)
Marion Marshall plays Self (1 episode)
Gale Robbins plays Self (3 episodes)
Charles Laughton plays Self (1 episode)
Kay Starr plays Self (4 episodes)
Elaine Stewart plays Self (1 episode)
Perry Como plays Self (1 episode)
Charles Coburn plays Self (1 episode)
Patti Page plays Self (1 episode)
Merle Oberon plays Self (1 episode)
Lizabeth Scott plays Self (1 episode)
June Havoc plays Self (1 episode)
Mike Mazurki plays Self (3 episodes)
Wally Cox plays Self (3 episodes)
Pee Wee Reese plays Self (1 episode)
Eddie Cantor plays Self - Host (1 episode)
Lon Chaney Jr. plays Self - Frankenstein Monster (1 episode)
Keye Luke plays Self (1 episode)
Johnnie Ray plays Self (1 episode)
Maxene Andrews plays Self (1 episode)
Jan Clayton plays Self (1 episode)
Dick Van Patten plays Self (1 episode)
Bob Fosse plays Self (4 episodes)
Harry von Zell plays Self (3 episodes)
Tallulah Bankhead plays Self (1 episode)
Connie Haines plays Self (3 episodes)
Jean Wallace plays Self (1 episode)
Rocky Marciano plays Self (2 episodes)
Hedda Hopper plays Self (2 episodes)
Gwen Verdon plays Self (2 episodes)
Cecil Kellaway plays Self (2 episodes)
Martha Raye plays Self (2 episodes)
Dagmar plays Self (2 episodes)
Beatrice Lillie plays Self (2 episodes)
John Wayne plays Self (2 episodes)
Sigmund Romberg plays Self (2 episodes)
Eddie Fisher plays Self (9 episodes)
Robert Alda plays Self (2 episodes)
Jeanne Carmen plays Self (1 episode)
Groucho Marx plays Self (1 episode)
Leo Durocher plays Self (1 episode)
Bobby Van plays Self (1 episode)
Walt Disney plays Self (1 episode)
Peggie Castle plays Self (1 episode)
Robert Cummings plays Self (3 episodes)
Paul Hartman plays Self (1 episode)
Bruce Cabot plays Self (1 episode)
Cesar Romero plays Self (6 episodes)
Sarah Vaughan plays Self (1 episode)
Herb Shriner plays Self (1 episode)
Ray Bolger plays Self (1 episode)
Nestor Paiva plays Self (1 episode)
Peggy Lee plays Self (8 episodes)
Agnes Moorehead plays Self (1 episode)
Dick Haymes plays Self (1 episode)
Rose Marie plays Self (1 episode)
Ronny Graham plays Self (3 episodes)
Helen O'Connell plays Self (1 episode)
Thelma Ritter plays Self (1 episode)
Sharon Baird plays Self (2 episodes)
Arnold Stang plays Self (1 episode)
Vera Miles plays Self (1 episode)
Spike Jones plays Self (4 episodes)
Tennessee Ernie Ford plays Self (1 episode)
Jane Morgan plays Self (3 episodes)
Arlene Dahl plays Self (1 episode)
Coleen Gray plays Self (1 episode)
Corinne Calvet plays Self (3 episodes)
Paul Winchell plays Self (3 episodes)
Hal March plays Self (10 episodes)
Yul Brynner plays Self (1 episode)
Ben Alexander plays Self (1 episode)
Laverne Andrews plays Self (1 episode)
Margaret Dumont plays Self (1 episode)
Bess Myerson plays Self (1 episode)
Sonja Henie plays Self (1 episode)
Patrice Munsel plays Self (1 episode)
Jackie Cooper plays Self (1 episode)
Edward Everett Horton plays Self (1 episode)
Terry Moore plays Self (1 episode)
Danny Arnold plays Self (12 episodes)
Jack Palance plays Self (1 episode)
Shelley Winters plays Self (2 episodes)
Chester Conklin plays Self (1 episode)
James Gleason plays Self (1 episode)
Elaine Stritch plays Self (1 episode)
Monty Woolley plays Self (1 episode)
Chico Marx plays Self (1 episode)
Marilyn Maxwell plays Self (6 episodes)
George Jessel plays Self (4 episodes)
Irv Kupcinet plays Self (1 episode)
Joyce Randolph plays Self (1 episode)
Gordon MacRae plays Self (12 episodes)
Morey Amsterdam plays Self (1 episode)
Gordon Jones plays Self (1 episode)
Lauren Bacall plays Self (1 episode)
Fred Allen plays Self (7 episodes)
Fred MacMurray plays Self (2 episodes)
Helen Gallagher plays Self (2 episodes)
Jerry Colonna plays Self (2 episodes)
Rex Harrison plays Self (2 episodes)
Irene Dunne plays Self (2 episodes)
Sid Fields plays Self - Uncle Charlie / Carmen's Father (1 episode) , Self (7 episodes)
Norman Abbott plays Self (2 episodes)
Dave Garroway plays Self (1 episode)
Donald O'Connor plays Self (16 episodes)
Jack Albertson plays Self (4 episodes)
Milton Berle plays Self (4 episodes)
Faye Emerson plays Self (1 episode)
Jane Russell plays Self (1 episode)
Eddie Mayehoff plays Self (1 episode)
Shirley Mitchell plays Self (1 episode)
Harpo Marx plays Self (4 episodes)
Anna Maria Alberghetti plays Self (6 episodes)
Cornel Wilde plays Self (1 episode)
Pat O’Brien plays Self (1 episode)
Betty Garrett plays Self (1 episode)
Robert Paige plays Self (1 episode) , Self - Host (1 episode)
Jack Carter plays Self (3 episodes)
Guy Lombardo plays Self (1 episode)
Bobby Clark plays Self (4 episodes)
Errol Flynn plays Self (1 episode)
Billy Barty plays Self (1 episode)
Vera-Ellen plays Self (1 episode)
Tom D'Andrea plays Self (10 episodes)
Mara Corday plays Self (1 episode)
Ella Fitzgerald plays Self (1 episode)
Lisa Kirk plays Self (1 episode)
Eartha Kitt plays Self (1 episode)
Frank De Vol plays Self (1 episode) , Self - Orchestra Leader (1 episode)
Carol Channing plays Self (1 episode)
Robert Montgomery plays Self (1 episode)
Fritz Feld plays Self (1 episode)
Buster Keaton plays Self (1 episode)
George Raft plays Self (uncredited) (5 episodes)
Sandra Gould plays Self (1 episode)
Bert Lahr plays Self (3 episodes)
Julie Adams plays Self (1 episode)
Moe Howard plays Self (1 episode)
Liberace plays Self (3 episodes)
Lena Horne plays Self (1 episode)
Ethel Merman plays Self (3 episodes)
Jules Munshin plays Self (1 episode)
Gloria Vanderbilt plays Self (1 episode)
James Komack plays Self (1 episode)
Emory Parnell plays Self (1 episode)
Fran Warren plays Self (1 episode)
Phil Foster plays Self (1 episode)
Jack Benny plays Self (2 episodes)
Risë Stevens plays Self (2 episodes)
Zsa Zsa Gabor plays Self (2 episodes)
Gisele MacKenzie plays Self (2 episodes)
Hoagy Carmichael plays Self (2 episodes)
Stan Freberg plays Self (2 episodes)
George Abbott plays Self (2 episodes)
Jackie Gleason plays Self (2 episodes)
George Gobel plays Self (1 episode)
Connie Sawyer plays Self (1 episode)
Lee Erickson plays Self (1 episode)
Edgar Bergen plays Self (4 episodes)
Byron Foulger plays Self (1 episode)
Imogene Coca plays Self (1 episode)
Richard Loo plays Self (1 episode)
Douglas Fowley plays Self (1 episode)
James Stewart plays Self (1 episode)
Rudy Vallee plays Self (1 episode)
Dinah Shore plays Self (3 episodes)
Jack Webb plays Self (3 episodes)
Polly Bergen plays Self (1 episode)
Danny Thomas plays Self (5 episodes)
Joe E. Lewis plays Self (1 episode)
Gloria Jean plays Self (1 episode)
Burt Lancaster plays Self (1 episode)
Rosemary Clooney plays Self (3 episodes)
Carolyn Jones plays Self (1 episode)
Eva Gabor plays Self (1 episode)
Nina Foch plays Self (1 episode)
Milton Frome plays Self - Uncle Charlie / Carmen's Father (3 episodes)
Joan Bennett plays Self (1 episode)
Phil Harris plays Self (5 episodes)
Tommy Farrell plays Self (1 episode)
Tony Martin plays Self (5 episodes)
Shemp Howard plays Self (1 episode)
Isobel Elsom plays Self (1 episode)
Doris Singleton plays Self (1 episode)
Ben Blue plays Self (8 episodes)
Louis Armstrong plays Self (3 episodes)
Xavier Cugat plays Self (1 episode)
Jack Kruschen plays Self (1 episode)
Frank Nelson plays Self (2 episodes)
Dorothy Dandridge plays Self (2 episodes)
William Holden plays Self (2 episodes)
Andy Clyde plays Self (1 episode)
Debbie Reynolds plays Self (1 episode)
Peter Leeds plays Self (3 episodes)
Hans Conried plays Self (1 episode)
Shirley Jones plays Self (1 episode)
Yogi Berra plays Self (1 episode)
Sheldon Leonard plays Self (3 episodes)
Brenda Marshall plays Self (1 episode)
Dale Evans plays Self (1 episode)
Sam Levene plays Self (1 episode)
Benny Rubin plays Self (2 episodes)
Frank Cady plays Self (1 episode)
Barry Kelley plays Self (1 episode)
Tony Bennett plays Self (1 episode)
Jonathan Winters plays Self (1 episode)
Louella Parsons plays Self (1 episode)
Kirk Douglas plays Ulysses (archive footage) (1 episode) , Self (2 episodes)
Frank Faylen plays Self (1 episode)
Magda Gabor plays Self (1 episode)
Scatman Crothers plays Self (6 episodes)
Edie Adams plays Self (1 episode)
Charlton Heston plays Self - Host (1 episode) , Self (4 episodes)
Roy Rogers plays Self (1 episode)
Barbara Morrison plays Self (1 episode)
Richard Carlson plays Self (1 episode)
Robert Clary plays Self (1 episode)
Audrey Hepburn plays Self (1 episode)
Martha Scott plays Self (1 episode)
Alan Young plays Self (2 episodes)
Victor Borge plays Self (1 episode)
Audie Murphy plays Self (1 episode)
Abbe Lane plays Self (archive footage) (1 episode) , Self (1 episode)
Helen Hayes plays Self (1 episode)
Nancy Walker plays Self (1 episode)
Lilli Palmer plays Self (1 episode)
Frank Sinatra plays Self (5 episodes)
Eddie Albert plays Self (1 episode)
Janis Paige plays Self (3 episodes)
Sid Caesar plays Self (1 episode)
Franchot Tone plays Self (1 episode)
Betty Furness plays Maggie Watson (1 episode)
Jan Peerce plays Self (3 episodes)
Carmen Miranda plays Self (2 episodes)
Fred Waring plays Self (1 episode)
Joan Crawford plays Self (1 episode)
Dorothy Baker plays Self (1 episode)
Hank Henry plays Self (1 episode)
Sparky Kaye plays Self (1 episode)
Alyce King plays Self - The King Sisters (1 episode)
Luise King plays Self - The King Sisters (1 episode)
Marilyn King plays Self - The King Sisters (1 episode)
Yvonne King plays Self - The King Sisters (1 episode)
Bob Manning plays Self (1 episode)
Tracy Morgan plays Self (1 episode)
Wilda Taylor plays Self (1 episode)
Jim Backus plays Self (1 episode)
Ann Blyth plays Self (1 episode)
Rory Calhoun plays Self (1 episode)
Celeste Holm plays Self (1 episode)
Art Linkletter plays Self (1 episode)
Jack Carson plays Self - Host (4 episodes)
Dave Barry plays Self (1 episode)
Joe E. Brown plays Self (1 episode)
Jarmila Novotná plays Self - Restaurant Owner (1 episode)
Ann Thomas plays Self (1 episode)
Gregg Sherwood plays Self (1 episode)
Al Goodman plays Self - Orchestra Leader (1 episode)
James Nolan plays Self - Palmolive Spokesman (1 episode)
Don Pardo plays Self - Announcer (voice) (uncredited) (1 episode)
Jane Wyman plays Lucy Gallant (archive footage) (1 episode)
Verna Felton plays Self (1 episode)
Leigh Snowden plays Self (1 episode)
Crew of The Colgate Comedy Hour
Writing
Directing
Crew
- Gloria DeHaven
- Ann Sheridan
- Kaye Ballard
- Frances Langford
- Kenny Delmar
- Lily Pons
- Beatrice Kay
- Sheree North
- Paul Douglas
- Jeff Chandler
- Debra Paget
- Dorothy Lamour
- Rhonda Fleming
- Franklin Pangborn
- Gale Storm
- Constance Moore
- Nelson Eddy
- Larry Fine
- Joel Grey
- Les Paul
- Anita Ekberg
- Heather Young
- Leonard Barr
- Farley Granger
- Fayard Nicholas
- Billy Sands
- Dave Brubeck
- Richard Arlen
- Joan Blondell
- Phil Silvers
- Ed Wynn
- Ralph Edwards
- Hy Averback
- Rocky Graziano
- Joyce Jameson
- Vivian Blaine
- Eddie Foy Jr.
- Billy Daniels
- Broderick Crawford
- Fran Allison
- Bil Baird
- Hedy Lamarr
- Ilona Massey
- Larry Storch
- Gene Nelson
- Joe Louis
- Allan Jones
- Brian Donlevy
- Harry Belafonte
- Arthur Treacher
- Judy Canova
- Grace Hartman
- Brian Aherne
- Teresa Brewer
- Dennis Day
- Brandon De Wilde
- Jimmy Durante
- Reginald Denny
- Jack Haley
- Mickey Rooney
- Fay McKenzie
- Janet Leigh
- Anne Jeffreys
- Yvonne De Carlo
- Eddie Bracken
- Adele Jergens
- Connie Russell
- William Bendix
- Buddy Rich
- Lynn Loring
- Ezio Pinza
- Connee Boswell
- Robert Strauss
- Jaye P. Morgan
- Andy Devine
- Gloria Grahame
- Claudette Colbert
- Walter Abel
- Ralph Bellamy
- Tony Curtis
- Louis Prima
- Marion Marshall
- Gale Robbins
- Charles Laughton
- Kay Starr
- Elaine Stewart
- Perry Como
- Charles Coburn
- Patti Page
- Merle Oberon
- Lizabeth Scott
- June Havoc
- Mike Mazurki
- Wally Cox
- Pee Wee Reese
- Eddie Cantor
- Lon Chaney Jr.
- Keye Luke
- Johnnie Ray
- Maxene Andrews
- Jan Clayton
- Dick Van Patten
- Bob Fosse
- Harry von Zell
- Tallulah Bankhead
- Connie Haines
- Jean Wallace
- Rocky Marciano
- Hedda Hopper
- Gwen Verdon
- Cecil Kellaway
- Martha Raye
- Dagmar
- Beatrice Lillie
- John Wayne
- Sigmund Romberg
- Eddie Fisher
- Robert Alda
- Jeanne Carmen
- Groucho Marx
- Leo Durocher
- Bobby Van
- Walt Disney
- Peggie Castle
- Robert Cummings
- Paul Hartman
- Bruce Cabot
- Cesar Romero
- Sarah Vaughan
- Herb Shriner
- Ray Bolger
- Nestor Paiva
- Peggy Lee
- Agnes Moorehead
- Dick Haymes
- Rose Marie
- Ronny Graham
- Helen O'Connell
- Thelma Ritter
- Sharon Baird
- Arnold Stang
- Vera Miles
- Spike Jones
- Tennessee Ernie Ford
- Jane Morgan
- Arlene Dahl
- Coleen Gray
- Corinne Calvet
- Paul Winchell
- Hal March
- Yul Brynner
- Ben Alexander
- Laverne Andrews
- Margaret Dumont
- Bess Myerson
- Sonja Henie
- Patrice Munsel
- Jackie Cooper
- Edward Everett Horton
- Terry Moore
- Danny Arnold
- Jack Palance
- Shelley Winters
- Chester Conklin
- James Gleason
- Elaine Stritch
- Monty Woolley
- Chico Marx
- Marilyn Maxwell
- George Jessel
- Irv Kupcinet
- Joyce Randolph
- Gordon MacRae
- Morey Amsterdam
- Gordon Jones
- Lauren Bacall
- Fred Allen
- Fred MacMurray
- Helen Gallagher
- Jerry Colonna
- Rex Harrison
- Irene Dunne
- Sid Fields
- Norman Abbott
- Dave Garroway
- Donald O'Connor
- Jack Albertson
- Milton Berle
- Faye Emerson
- Jane Russell
- Eddie Mayehoff
- Shirley Mitchell
- Harpo Marx
- Anna Maria Alberghetti
- Cornel Wilde
- Pat O’Brien
- Betty Garrett
- Robert Paige
- Jack Carter
- Guy Lombardo
- Bobby Clark
- Errol Flynn
- Billy Barty
- Vera-Ellen
- Tom D'Andrea
- Mara Corday
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Lisa Kirk
- Eartha Kitt
- Frank De Vol
- Carol Channing
- Robert Montgomery
- Fritz Feld
- Buster Keaton
- George Raft
- Sandra Gould
- Bert Lahr
- Julie Adams
- Moe Howard
- Liberace
- Lena Horne
- Ethel Merman
- Jules Munshin
- Gloria Vanderbilt
- James Komack
- Emory Parnell
- Fran Warren
- Phil Foster
- Jack Benny
- Risë Stevens
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Gisele MacKenzie
- Hoagy Carmichael
- Stan Freberg
- George Abbott
- Jackie Gleason
- George Gobel
- Connie Sawyer
- Lee Erickson
- Edgar Bergen
- Byron Foulger
- Imogene Coca
- Richard Loo
- Douglas Fowley
- James Stewart
- Rudy Vallee
- Dinah Shore
- Jack Webb
- Polly Bergen
- Danny Thomas
- Joe E. Lewis
- Gloria Jean
- Burt Lancaster
- Rosemary Clooney
- Carolyn Jones
- Eva Gabor
- Nina Foch
- Milton Frome
- Joan Bennett
- Phil Harris
- Tommy Farrell
- Tony Martin
- Shemp Howard
- Isobel Elsom
- Doris Singleton
- Ben Blue
- Louis Armstrong
- Xavier Cugat
- Jack Kruschen
- Frank Nelson
- Dorothy Dandridge
- William Holden
- Andy Clyde
- Debbie Reynolds
- Peter Leeds
- Hans Conried
- Shirley Jones
- Yogi Berra
- Sheldon Leonard
- Brenda Marshall
- Dale Evans
- Sam Levene
- Benny Rubin
- Frank Cady
- Barry Kelley
- Tony Bennett
- Jonathan Winters
- Louella Parsons
- Kirk Douglas
- Frank Faylen
- Magda Gabor
- Scatman Crothers
- Edie Adams
- Charlton Heston
- Roy Rogers
- Barbara Morrison
- Richard Carlson
- Robert Clary
- Audrey Hepburn
- Martha Scott
- Alan Young
- Victor Borge
- Audie Murphy
- Abbe Lane
- Helen Hayes
- Nancy Walker
- Lilli Palmer
- Frank Sinatra
- Eddie Albert
- Janis Paige
- Sid Caesar
- Franchot Tone
- Betty Furness
- Jan Peerce
- Carmen Miranda
- Fred Waring
- Joan Crawford
- Dorothy Baker
- Hank Henry
- Sparky Kaye
- Alyce King
- Luise King
- Marilyn King
- Yvonne King
- Bob Manning
- Tracy Morgan
- Wilda Taylor
- Jim Backus
- Ann Blyth
- Rory Calhoun
- Celeste Holm
- Art Linkletter
- Jack Carson
- Dave Barry
- Joe E. Brown
- Jarmila Novotná
- Ann Thomas
- Gregg Sherwood
- Al Goodman
- James Nolan
- Don Pardo
- Jane Wyman
- Verna Felton
- Leigh Snowden