Eddie Bracken

His wife of 63 years, Connie, a former actress, died in August of 2002, just three months before Eddie's passing. Connie was his leading lady in the Broadway production of "What a Life" in 1938.
He died in hospital in Montclair, New Jersey while undergoing surgery for a crushed spinal disc in his neck.
He was awarded two Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 6751 Hollywood Boulevard and for Radio at 1651 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
Eddie won a Best Actor (Musical) Tony nomination playing Horace Vandergelder in the Broadway revival of "Hello, Dolly!" opposite Carol Channing in 1978.
While in elementary school, Eddie appeared as the rich kid in "The New York Kiddie Troupers," a series of silent movie shorts filmed in New York.

I could never just be an actor, that would be like having the rest of the day to die in . . . I'm in other businesses, most of them failures. Failures don't scare me. You make it or you don't.
I am the theater's number-one takeover guy for everybody. It's a great compliment to be asked to replace such a variety of performers.
I've made a good living and I've had a good time doing it. Has it been tough? You bet! I went broke three times, but I'm proud of the way I've recovered. You never hear any scandals about me. I'm well respected. I've got a happy family, a nice home, and I'm working in my business. What more could I ask?
I'm not a comedian; I'm an actor who does comedy.
[about Frank Moran] Frank was a very intelligent man. When he was a fighter he was hit in the larynx area, and that's why he talked the way he did. He had the voice of a pretty stupid guy, and so people would come away from him thinking, "My God, where did he get all his intelligence?" . . . and on the set he was just so wonderful--we'd sit around and have so much fun.