Cliff Nazarro

Cliff Nazarro
Born January 31, 1904
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Died February 18, 1961 (aged 57)
Ventura County, California, USA
Occupation Actor and comedian
Years active 1930-1949

Cliff Nazarro (January 31, 1904 – February 18, 1961) was a popular double-talk comedian of the 1930s and 1940s who appeared in movies such as You'll Never Get Rich (1941) as Swivel Tongue with Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth and Hillbilly Blitzkrieg (1942) as Barney Google.[1]

Nazarro was the voice of Warner Brothers cartoon character "Egghead." He made a few commercial recordings, including a 1932 date as vocalist with swing band Roane's Pennsylvanians and a 1942 comic recitation, "News of the World."

References

  1. ↑ Tim Hollis (2008), Ain't that a knee-slapper: rural comedy in the twentieth century, University Press of Mississippi, pp. 109–111, ISBN 978-1-934110-73-7

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