Composer, librettist, actor, dancer, dramatist, author, director, and producer born in Providence, Rhode Island. He began in vaudeville as a child in his family's act, the Four Cohans, and was writing for the act by the age of 15. As an actor he is remembered in such roles as the father in O'Neill's Ah...See full bio »
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Broadway's Best: 1969
(1969)
(music: "You're A Grand Old Flag/Mary/Yankee Doodle Dandy", "My Town/Give My Regards to Broadway" / lyrics: "You're A Grand Old Flag/Mary/Yankee Doodle Dandy", "My Town/Give My Regards to Broadway")
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Give My Regards to Broadway
(1967)
(writer: "Yankee Doodle Dandy", "Always Leave 'Em Laughing", "You're A Wonderful Girl", "Mary's A Grand Old Name", "You're A Grand Old Flag", "Over There")
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Give My Regards to Broadway
(1959)
(writer: "Yankee Doodle Dandy" - uncredited, "Mary Is a Grand Old Name" - uncredited, "Harrigan" - uncredited, "Give Me Regards to Broadway" - uncredited)
1959At the Movies
(TV movie)
(writer: "The Yankee Doodle Boy" - uncredited)
1942Blitz Wolf
(short)
(writer: "Over There" 1917 - uncredited)
1942Yankee Doodle Dandy
(writer: "The Yankee Doodle Boy" 1904 - uncredited, "Give My Regards to Broadway" 1904 - uncredited, "Over There" 1917 - uncredited, "You're a Grand Old Flag" 1906 - uncredited, "Mary's a Grand Old Name" 1906 - uncredited, "Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway" 1906 - uncredited, "So Long, Mary" 1906 - uncredited, "Harrigan" 1908 - uncredited, "I Was Born in Virginia" 1906 - uncredited, "The Warmest Baby in the Bunch" 1896 - uncredited, "Oh, You Wonderful Girl" 1911 - uncredited, "Blue Skies, Gray Skies" 1927 - uncredited, "The Belle of the Barbers' Ball" 1908 - uncredited, "Like the Wandering Minstrel" 1927 - uncredited, "Nellie Kelly, I Love You" 1922 - uncredited, "The Man Who Owns Broadway" 1909 - uncredited, "Molly Malone" 1927 - uncredited, "Billie" 1928 - uncredited, "In a Kingdom of Our Own" 1929 - uncredited, "You Remind Me of My Mother" 1922 - uncredited)
1941Babes on Broadway
(writer: "Mary's a Grand Old Name" 1905 - uncredited, "The Yankee Doodle Boy" 1904 - uncredited)
1940Tin Pan Alley
(writer: "Over There" 1917 - uncredited)
1940Little Nellie Kelly
(music: "Nellie is a Darling" 1922 - uncredited, "Nellie Kelly I Love You" 1922 / lyrics: "Nellie is a Darling" 1922 - uncredited, "Nellie Kelly I Love You" 1922)
1932The Phantom President
(writer: "WE NEED A MEDICINE MAN" / performer: "THE MEDICINE SHOW", "SOMEONE OUGHT TO WAVE THE FLAG", "WE NEED A MEDICINE MAN")
(1914) Stage: Wrote / produced (w/Sam Harris) "The Miracle Man", produced on Broadway. Astor Theatre: 21 Sep 1914-Dec 1914 (closing date unknown/97 performances). Cast: Frank Bacon (as "Hiram Higgins"), Earle Browne (as "Harry Evans"), Daniel Burns (as "Bobby")...
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2 Biographical Movies
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[signature speech when audiences demanded encores] Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!
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Trivia:
Pictured on a 15¢ US commemorative postage stamp in the Performing Arts and Artists series, issued in his honor 3 July 1978 (believed to be the 100th anniversary of his birth, even though he claimed 4 July as his birthdate).
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