Freeman Gosden
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American radio and television performer (1899-1972), best known as co-creator and star of Amos 'n' Andy. With Charles Correll, he created and voiced the animated series Calvin and the Colonel (1961-1962), voicing Colonel Montgomery J. Klaxon, a shrewd fox, in what was effectively a cartoon transposition of their Amos 'n' Andy characters.
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Comedy
The only feature film starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, the creators and voices of the enormously popular radio program Amos 'n' Andy. The two play the owners of the Fresh Air Taxi Cab Company who get involved in a mystery at a haunted house while helping a wealthy man find a lost deed. The film captures the radio duo in blackface, a convention of the era that is deeply offensive by modern standards but was standard practice for the show. The film was a major box office hit at the time, riding the wave of Amos 'n' Andy's unprecedented radio popularity. Duke Ellington and his orchestra appear in a musical sequence. The film is in the public domain.
Comedy
Check and Double Check
1930 - as Amos Jones
Animation, Comedy
An episode of Calvin and the Colonel, the 1961-1962 ABC animated sitcom created and voiced by Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll of Amos 'n' Andy fame. Colonel Montgomery J. Klaxon, a shrewd fox, and Calvin T. Burnside, a dimwitted bear, propagate an insurance scam: after the Colonel breaks his nephew's car, they try to buy auto insurance and cash in on the damage after the fact. The plot would have been right at home in Amos 'n' Andy, transplanted into a cartoon animal format to sidestep the controversy that had ended the live-action show. Aired February 3, 1962. The episode is in the public domain.
Animation · Comedy · Family
Wheeling and Dealing
1962 - as Colonel Montgomery J. Klaxon