Joe Palooka is an American comic strip about a heavyweight boxing champion, created by cartoonist Ham Fisher. The strip debuted on April 19, 1930 and...
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Ham Fisher (section Joe Palooka)
writer and cartoonist. He is best known for his long, popular run on Joe Palooka, which was launched in 1930 and ranked as one of the top five newspaper...
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boxer Joe Palooka, a popular comic book character. He got the part and starred in Joe Palooka, Champ (1946) as well as ten additional Joe Palooka films...
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Pictures to portray Anne Howe, the love interest of fictional boxer Joe Palooka in Joe Palooka, Champ. Based on the very popular comic strip, the instant success...
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Challenger (2012) Antonacci owns the trademark to and has recreated Joe Palooka, an American comic book, formerly about a heavyweight boxing champion...
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Gentleman Joe Palooka (1946) Joe Palooka in the Knockout (1947) Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad (1948) Joe Palooka in Winner Take All (1948) Joe Palooka in the...
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Look up palooka in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Palooka may refer to: Joe Palooka, an American comic strip Palooka (film), a 1934 film based on the...
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Based on Joe Palooka: Palooka (1934) Joe Palooka, Champ (1946) Gentleman Joe Palooka (1946) Joe Palooka in the Knockout (1947) Joe Palooka in Fighting...
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Pete Latzo (section Inspiration for Joe Palooka)
sportsmanship, and physique, was inspired to create his popular character Joe Palooka. In the 1930s the strip appeared in more than 600 newspapers, had a readership...
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Michael Curtiz. In 1946 he played himself in Joe Palooka, Champ, a movie based on the comic strip Joe Palooka created by Ham Fisher. Louis once again played...
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Kingdom. Joe Palooka (Stuart Erwin) is a naive young man whose father Pete (Robert Armstrong) was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother...
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Escort (uncredited) 1948: A Southern Yankee - Orderly (uncredited) 1948: Joe Palooka in Winner Take All - Army Sergeant George Malone (uncredited) 1948: The...
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Werewolf (2004) Joe Palooka * Palooka (1934) Joe Palooka, Champ (1946) Gentleman Joe Palooka (1946) Joe Palooka in the Knockout (1947) Joe Palooka in Fighting...
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Gentleman Joe Palooka is a 1946 American comedy action film directed by Cy Endfield and starring Joe Kirkwood, Jr., Leon Errol and Elyse Knox. It was the...
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consisted of only a single panel, an example being those that accompanied Joe Palooka in the mid-1940s. Holtz notes: It is a popular assumption in newspaper...
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Costello in Hollywood (1945) as Royce's Secretary (uncredited) Gentleman Joe Palooka (1946) as Maid Fun on a Weekend (1947) as Mr. Prigee's Secretary (uncredited)...
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to obtain Joe's release from the Foreign Legion and a full pardon from the French president for the desertion charges." As the Joe Palooka comics took...
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Joe Palooka in the Knockout is a 1947 American comedy film directed by Reginald Le Borg. It was the third part of the Joe Palooka series from Monogram...
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On October 8, 1949, in Las Vegas, Downs married Joe Kirkwood Jr., who played the character Joe Palooka in films and on TV. The couple divorced on February...
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Joe Besser (born Jessel Besser, August 12, 1907 – March 1, 1988) was an American actor, comedian, and musician, known for his impish humor and wimpy characters...
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Bailey Deadline at Dawn (1946) as Babe Dooley Gilda (1946) as Casey Joe Palooka, Champ (1946) as Lefty The Runaround (1946) as Hutchins Inside Job (1946)...
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with minor success. He portrayed the role of Humphrey Pennyworth in the Joe Palooka B-movies. Coogan's only child is Jonathan Coogan. Coogan's nephew is...
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Brice on Baby Snooks". Billed as Teddy Bergman, he had the title role on Joe Palooka. Billed as Teddy Bergman, Reed appeared on Broadway in Double Dummy (1936)...
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returned to the studio, before writing and directing several low budget Joe Palooka features (based on the comic strip) for Monogram. What he later called...
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Lindsay Joe Palooka, Champ (1946) - Knobby Walsh Gentleman Joe Palooka (1946) - Knobby Walsh Joe Palooka in the Knockout (1947) - Knobby Walsh Joe Palooka in...
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began his acting career in the 1948 boxing film Joe Palooka in Winner Take All. The film's star, Joe Kirkwood, had spotted him at a boxing arena. During...
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commissioner of Scotland Yard The Searching Wind (1946) as Sears Gentleman Joe Palooka (1946) as Editor W.W. Dwight The Verdict (1946) as Jury Foreman (uncredited)...
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Joe Palooka in Triple Cross is a 1951 American film. It was part of the Joe Palooka series and was directed by Reginald Le Borg. After the champ, Joe...
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Joe Palooka in the Big Fight is a 1949 comedy film directed by Cy Endfield, based on the comic strip by Ham Fisher. It is an entry in Monogram's Joe Palooka...
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Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch is a 1949 American film directed by Reginald Le Borg. It was one in the series of Joe Palooka films for Monogram starring...
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