Groucho Marx (1890–1977)

Actor | Writer | Director

The bushy-browed, cigar-smoking wise-cracker with the painted-on moustache and stooped walk was the...

Born: October 2, 1890
Died: August 19, 1977 (age 86)

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Filmography

Known For

A Night at the Opera Otis B. Driftwood (1935)
Duck Soup Rufus T. Firefly (1933)
The Cocoanuts Hammer (1929)
Known For

Horse Feathers Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff (1932)
Actor

The Candidate Cameo (1972)
Julia Mr. Flywheel (1968)
Skidoo 'God' (1968)
The Jackie Gleason Show Self (1967)
Birds Do It Man Looking Through Window at Melvin Flying (1966)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre Ed Davis (1964)
General Electric Theater John Graham (1959-1962)
The Bell Telephone Hour Koko (1960)
The Story of Mankind Peter Minuit (1957)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? George Schmidlap (1957)
Showdown at Ulcer Gulch Cameo appearance (Stage conductor) (1956)
The Jack Benny Program Groucho Marx (1955)
A Girl in Every Port Benjamin Franklin 'Benny' Linn (1952)
Double Dynamite Emile J. Keck (1951)
Mr. Music Groucho Marx (1950)
Love Happy Detective Sam Grunion - Narrator of the Story (1949)
Copacabana Lionel Q. Devereaux (1947)
A Night in Casablanca Kornblow (1946)
The Big Store Wolf J. Flywheel (1941)
Go West S. Quentin Quale (1940)
At the Circus Attorney Loophole (1939)
Room Service Gordon Miller (1938)
Sunday Night at the Trocadero Groucho Marx (1937)
A Day at the Races Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush (1937)
Yours for the Asking Sunbather (1936)
A Night at the Opera Otis B. Driftwood (1935)
Duck Soup Rufus T. Firefly (1933)
Horse Feathers Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff (1932)
Monkey Business Groucho (1931)
Animal Crackers Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding (1930)
The Cocoanuts Hammer (1929)
Actor

Humor Risk Villain (1921)
Soundtrack

Breaking Bad (2013)
Hello I Must Be Going (2012)
Whatever Works (2009)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (2008)
Mwah! The Best of the Dinah Shore Show (2003)
Jonathan Creek (2003)
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1998)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
The Dick Cavett Show (1971)
Music Scene (1970)
You Bet Your Life (1950-1960)
A Girl in Every Port (1952)
Double Dynamite (1951)
Mr. Music (1950)
Copacabana (1947)
The Big Store (1941)
Go West (1940)
At the Circus (1939)
A Day at the Races (1937)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Duck Soup (1933)
Horse Feathers (1932)
Monkey Business (1931)
Soundtrack

Animal Crackers (1930)
Writer

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964)
The Life of Riley (1953)
Kraft Theatre (1949)
The Life of Riley (1949)
Writer

The King and the Chorus Girl (1937)
Director

Groucho Marx's Home Movies (1933)
Archive footage

CBS News Sunday Morning (2022)
V.O.S.: Lo que NO te cuentan (2021)
Les Chroniques du Mea (2021)
The Sparks Brothers (2021)
The UnXplained (2020)
Charlie Chaplin, le génie de la liberté (2020)
L'Histoire nous le dira (2019)
The Movies (2019)
¿De dónde salen estos doblajes? (2019)
Mike Wallace Is Here (2019)
The History of Comedy (2018)
Game Changers (2018)
Zaz: Beware of Your Tongue (2018)
L'antre du Mea (2018)
The Michael Knowles Show (2017)
The Dead Sullivan Show (2017)
Geno in the Evening (2016)
The Last Laugh (2016)
Discovering Film (2015)
Can We Take a Joke? (2015)
Le Fossoyeur de Films (2015)
America's Clown: An Intimate Biography of Red Skelton (2014)
The Sixties (2014)
Un jour, une histoire (2014)
Life's a Dive (2014)
And the Oscar Goes to... (2014)
Supermensch (2013)
Glickman (2013)
Welcome to the Basement (2013)
Biography (2012)
Love, Marilyn (2012)
Special Collector's Edition (2011-2012)
Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man (2012)
10 Things You Don't Know About (2012)
Hollywood Invasion (2011)
Beatles Stories (2011)
These Amazing Shadows (2011)
Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America (2009)
Morir de humor (2008)
Pioneers of Television (2008)
Cartola, the Samba Legend (2007)
Cavett Remembers the Comic Legends (2006)
¿De qué te ríes? (2006)
The 50 Greatest Comedy Films (2006)
Great Performances (2005)
The 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2005)
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005)
Game Show Moments Gone Bananas (2005)
The Comedians' Comedian (2005)
Broadway: The American Musical (2004)
Funny Already: A History of Jewish Comedy (2004)
Comedy Connections (2004)
Remarks on Marx (2004)
On Your Marx, Get Set, Go! (2004)
Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling (2004)
Marilyn's Man (2004)
Hit Celebrity TV Commercials (2004)
Mwah! The Best of the Dinah Shore Show (2003)
Inside the Marx Brothers (2003)
You Bet Your Life: The Lost Episodes (2003)
The Beatles... Off the Record: Newsreel Footage 1964-1966 (2001)
E! Mysteries & Scandals (2000)
Film Breaks (1999)
The Source (1999)
American Masters (1997)
We Remember Marilyn (1996)
Beatles Diary (1996)
Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of Movies (1996)
The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen (1995)
The Our Gang Story (1994)
100 Years at the Movies (1994)
The Unknown Marx Brothers (1993)
More of 'the Best of the Hollywood Palace' (1993)
Funny Business (1992)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1992)
The One, the Only... Groucho (1991)
Phil Collins: I Wish It Would Rain Down (1990)
The Wonder Years (1990)
A Tribute to Lucy (1989)
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies (1988)
Muppet Babies (1988)
Celebrity Commercials (1987)
Classic Comedy Teams (1986)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1986)
The Groucho Marx Collector's Classic (1985)
Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
TV's Funniest Game Show Moments (1984)
Moviestar Cartoons (1983)
Movie Star Commercials and Important Messages (1983)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
The Hollywood Palace (1982)
Showbiz Ballyhoo (1982)
Oops, those Hollywood Bloopers! (1982)
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell (1982)
Hooray for Hollywood (1982)
Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982)
This Is Elvis (1981)
Hollywood Greats (1979)
Hollywood on Parade (1978)
The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978)
TV: The Fabulous Fifties (1978)
America at the Movies (1976)
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
Salsa (1976)
Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975)
Milton Berle's Mad Mad Mad World of Comedy (1974)
The Mike Douglas Show (1974)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
The Dick Cavett Show (1970-1971)
The Hollywood Palace (1970)
Here's Dick Cavett (1969)
Wayne and Shuster Take an Affectionate Look at... (1965)
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe (1965)
The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
Hollywood and the Stars (1963-1964)
Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963)
Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963)
The DuPont Show of the Week (1961)
The NBC Comedy Hour (1956)
The Ed Sullivan Show (1954)
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Greatest Comedians (1953)
Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians (1952)
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Famous Feet (1950)
Screen Snapshots 2856: It Was Only Yesterday (1950)
The Miracle of Sound (1940)
Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)
From the Ends of the Earth (1939)
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 1 (1937)
Archive footage

Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 11 (1937)
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (1933)

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Awards

Did You Know

Had a fifth brother, Gummo Marx, who performed with the other brothers in vaudeville. He left the act before the brothers started to make movies. He remained close to Groucho for the rest of his life.

Quotes

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.

Trademark

In Marx Brothers movies, he almost always played characters with unusual first names, a middle initial and unlikely last names; i.e.: Rufus T. Firefly, Hugo Z. Hackenbush and Otis B. Driftwood.