List of Famous people with last name Gleason

Steve Gleason

Stephen Michael Gleason is a former professional American football player who played as a safety with the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). Originally signed by the Indianapolis Colts as an undrafted free agent in 2000, he played for the Saints through the 2007 season. As a free agent in 2008, Gleason retired from the NFL after eight seasons. Gleason is particularly known for his block of a punt early in a 2006 game, which became a symbol of recovery in New Orleans in the team's first home game after Hurricane Katrina.

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Jackie Gleason

First Name Jackie
Died on June 24, 1987 (aged 17)
Height 179 cm | 5'10

John Herbert Gleason was an American actor, comedian, writer, composer, and conductor known affectionately as "The Great One." Developing a style and characters from growing up in Brooklyn, New York, he was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy, exemplified by his city-bus-driver Ralph Kramden character in the television series The Honeymooners. He also developed The Jackie Gleason Show, which maintained high ratings from the mid-1950s through 1970. After originating in New York City, filming moved to Miami Beach, Florida in 1964 after Gleason took up permanent residence there.

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Mary Pat Gleason

Mary Patrick Gleason
First Name Mary
Last Name Gleason
Born on February 23, 1950
Died on June 2, 2020 (aged 70)

Mary Patrick Gleason was an American film and television actress and an Emmy Award winning writer. From 1983 to 1985, she appeared as "Jane Hogan" on the daytime soap opera, Guiding Light, for which she was also a writer.

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Joanna Gleason

First Name Joanna
Born on June 2, 1950 (age 73)
Born in Canada, Manitoba

Joanna Gleason is a Canadian actress and singer. She is a Tony Award–winning musical theatre actress and has also had a number of notable film and TV roles. She's known for originating the role of the Baker's Wife in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods where she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She is also known for her film work in Mike Nichols' Heartburn (1985), Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), and Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights (1997). She is also known for her television roles in shows such as Friends, The West Wing, The Good Wife and The Affair.

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Paul Gleason

First Name Paul
Last Name Gleason
Born on May 4, 1939
Died on May 27, 2006 (aged 67)
Height 184 cm | 6'0

Paul Xavier Gleason was an American film and television actor. He was known for his roles on television series such as All My Children and films such as The Breakfast Club, Trading Places, and Die Hard.

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Russell Gleason

First Name Russell
Last Name Gleason
Born on February 6, 1907
Died on December 26, 1945 (aged 38)

Russell Gleason was an American actor who began his career at the very beginning of the talking film era. Born into an acting family, one of his earliest roles was in the 1930 classic film, All Quiet on the Western Front.

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Jean Berko Gleason

First Name Jean
Last Name Gleason
Born on January 1, 1931 (age 93)

Jean Berko Gleason is a psycholinguist and professor emerita in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University who has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of language acquisition in children, aphasia, gender differences in language development, and parent–child interactions.

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Andrew Gleason

First Name Andrew
Last Name Gleason
Born on November 4, 1921
Died on October 17, 2008 (aged 86)

Andrew Mattei Gleason (1921–2008) was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to widely varied areas of mathematics, including the solution of Hilbert's fifth problem, and was a leader in reform and innovation in math­e­mat­ics teaching at all levels. Gleason's theorem in quantum logic and the Greenwood–Gleason graph, an important example in Ramsey theory, are named for him.

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F. Keogh Gleason

First Name F.
Last Name Gleason
Born on April 14, 1906
Died on December 18, 1982 (aged 76)

Francis Keogh Gleason was a resident set decorator at MGM studios for over 40 years. In that time he won 4 Academy Awards and was nominated an additional 3 times. Gleason graduated from the Minnesota School of Fine Arts in 1927.

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James Gleason

First Name James
Last Name Gleason
Born on May 23, 1882
Died on April 12, 1959 (aged 76)

James Austin Gleason was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter born in New York City. Gleason often portrayed "tough-talking, world-weary guys with a secret heart-of-gold."

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