Jack Oakie: Jack Oakie. Actor: The Great Dictator. "America's Joyboy," beefy, plump-faced comedian Jack Oakie, was one of the funniest top and second banana jokesters of stage, radio and especially film's "Golden Age." He would accomplish so much despite the fact that he was "functionally deaf" throughout his career and performed primarily with the aid of lip reading or vibrations. The stories vary on how he became deaf -- scarlet fever at age...
Known For: The Great Dictator (Napaloni - Dictator of Bacteria), Million Dollar Legs (Migg Tweeny), Once in a Lifetime (George Lewis), The Affairs of Annabel (Lanny Morgan)