LOS ANGELES -- Red Buttons, the carrot-topped burlesque comedian who became a top star in early television and then won a 1957 Oscar with a surprising dramatic turn in "Sayonara," died Thursday. He ...

Buttons began as the youngest comic in burlesque. He honed his technique telling jokes at the old hotels in New York's Catskill Mountains, and wound up as a TV and movie star. It wasn't always the ...

Red Buttons, the impish former burlesque comic who became an early TV sensation and an Academy Award-winning character actor during a career that spanned more than seven decades, died yesterday at his ...

Although Red Buttons is best known as a stand-up comic, he is also a successful songwriter, an Academy Award-winning actor (and has been nominated for two Golden Globe awards) and an accomplished ...

LOS ANGELES — Red Buttons, the carrot-topped burlesque comedian who became a top star in early television then went dramatic to win the 1957 Oscar as supporting actor in “Sayonara,” died Thursday. He ...

Mr. Buttons found his greatest fame on the small screen, becoming an instant sensation in 1952 as the impish star and host of "The Red Buttons Show" on CBS. He won an Emmy for Best Comedian, but ...

LOS ANGELES - Red Buttons, the carrot-topped burlesque comedian who became a star in early television and won a 1957 Oscar with a surprising dramatic turn in Sayonara, died Thursday. He was 87.