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Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis was a celebrated American comedian, actor, singer, filmmaker, and humanitarian active for over seven decades.

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Who is Jerry Lewis?

Jerry Lewis is best known for Pioneering American comedian and filmmaker known as 'The King of Comedy' for his influential slapstick humor and innovative film work. On Dead or Alive, Jerry Lewis is listed in the Comedians category, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Jerry Lewis is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: Pioneering American comedian and filmmaker known as 'The King of Comedy' for his influential slapstick humor and innovative film work.
Listed under: Comedians

About Jerry Lewis

Known as "The King of Comedy", "The Total Filmmaker" and in France as "Le Roi du Crazy" across his seven-decade career, Lewis was regarded as one of the greatest comedians of the 20th century. Rising to prominence with singer Dean Martin, billed as Martin and Lewis, in 1946, the two did a series of sixteen buddy-comedy films, their televised run on The Colgate Comedy Hour, live stage performances, guest spots on other shows and a radio series until their split in 1956. Lewis went into filmmaking while continuing on his own in thirty-five motion pictures from 1957 to 1984, guest hosted The Tonight Show a record fifty-two times, while helming his own nightly series and from 1950 to 1989, performed closely with Sammy Davis Jr. As its honorary national chairman and spokesman, Lewis raised funds for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) through his annual Labor Day telecast The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, a live event which raised $2.45 billion for MDA from its 1966 inception through 2009. As a singer, Lewis sang live, recorded numerous albums and did standards from the Great American Songbook.

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