Born on this day – Groucho Marx:

Groucho Marx

Actor

Comedian

Writer

Singer

October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977

Books:

Beds (1930 / 1976); Groucho and Me (1959); Many Happy Returns (1942); Memoirs of a Mangy Lover (1963); The Groucho Letters: Letters From and To Groucho Marx (1967); The Groucho Phile: An Illustrated Life by Groucho Marx with Hector Arce (1976); The Marx Bros (1973); The Secret Word Is Groucho with Hector Arce (1976).

Movies and television:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); 10 Things You Don't Know About (2012); A Day at the Races (1937); A Girl in Every Port (1952); A Night at the Opera (1935); A Night in Casablanca (1946); A Show Business Salute to Milton Berle (1973); A Tribute to Lucy (1989); AFI Life Achievement Award (1975–1976); All Star Revue (1952); America After Dark (1957); America at the Movies (1976); American Masters (1997–2022); America's Clown: An Intimate Biography of Red Skelton (2014); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Animal Crackers (1930); At the Circus (1939); Beatles Diary (1996); Beatles Stories (2011); Becoming Marilyn (2022); Behind the Music (1998); Biography (1993–2012); Birds Do It (1966); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Breaking Bad (2013); Broadway: The American Musical (2004); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Can We Take a Joke? (2015); Candid Hollywood (1962); Cartola, the Samba Legend (2007); Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid (2024); Cavett Remembers the Comic Legends (2006); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2022); CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years (1976); Celebrity Billiards (1968); Celebrity Commercials (1987); Charlie Chaplin, le génie de la liberté (2020); Classic Cars of the 50'S & 60'S, Nostalgic Films & TV Commercials (1990); Classic Comedy Teams (1986); Comedy Connections (2004); Copacabana (1947); De dónde salen estos doblajes (2019); De qué te ríes (2006); Dick Cavett und... (1979); Discovering Film (2015); Donyale Luna: Supermodel (2023); Double Dynamite (1951); Duck Soup (1933); E! Mysteries & Scandals (2000); Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man (2012); Film Breaks (1999); Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005); Firing Line (1967); Firing Line with Margaret Hoover (2023); From the Ends of the Earth (1939); Funny Business (1992); Game Changers (2018); Game Show Moments Gone Bananas (2005); General Electric Theater (1959–1962); General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein (1954); Geno in the Evening (2016); George Jessel Show (1959); George Jessel's Here Come the Stars (1968); Glickman (2013); Go West (1940); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Great Performances (2005); Groucho (1965); Groucho Marx's Home Movies (1933); Gypsy (1967); Hannah and Her Sisters (1986); Hello I Must Be Going (2012); Here's Dick Cavett (1969); History's Greatest Mysteries (2023); Hit Celebrity TV Commercials (2004); Hollywood and the Stars (1963–1964); Hollywood Greats (1979); Hollywood Invasion (2011); Hollywood on Parade (1978); Hollywood on Parade No. 11 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. A-5 (1932); Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (1933); Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983); Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies (1988); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (2008); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Hooray for Hollywood (1982); Horse Feathers (1932); Humor Risk (1921); Hy Gardner Calling (1961); I Dream of Jeannie (1967); Inside Beverly Hills (1956); Inside the Marx Brothers (2003); Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood (2005); I've Got a Secret (1959–1963); Jack (2021); Jonathan Creek (2003); Joys! (1976); Julia (1968); Kraft Theatre (1949); Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021); L'antre du Mea (2018); Le Fossoyeur de Films (2015); Legends of Stand Up Comedy (2024); Les Chroniques du Mea (2021–2022); L'Histoire nous le dira (2019); Life with Linkletter (1970); Life's a Dive (2014); Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling (2004); Lives Well Lived (2025); Looking for Lenny (2011); Love Happy (1949); Love, Marilyn (2012); Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America (2009); Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1986); Marilyn's Man (2004); Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love (2013); Merrily We Roll Along: The Early Days of the Automobile (1961); MGM: When the Lion Roars (1992); Midi Trente (1972); Mike Wallace Is Here (2019); Milton Berle's Mad Mad Mad World of Comedy (1974); Monkey Business (1931); More of 'The Best of the Hollywood Palace' (1993); Morir de humor (2008); Movie Star Commercials and Important Messages (1983); Moviestar Cartoons (1983); Mr. Music (1950); Muppet Babies (1988); Music Scene (1970); Mwah! The Best of the Dinah Shore Show (2003); My Mom Jayne (2025); NY TV: By the People Who Made It - Part I & II (1998); Omnibus (1972); On Your Marx, Get Set, Go! (2004); Oops, those Hollywood Bloopers! (1982); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1956); Person to Person (1954); Phil Collins: I Wish It Would Rain Down (1990); Pioneers of Television (2008); Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV (2024); Remarks on Marx (2004); Remember ... 1938 (1955); Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of Movies (1996); Room Service (1938); Salsa (1976); Screen Snapshots, Series 16, No. 11 (1937); Screen Snapshots, Series 16, No. 3 (1936); Screen Snapshots, Series 17, No. 1 (1937); Screen Snapshots, Series 21, No. 8 (1942); Screen Snapshots, Series 21, No. 9 (1942); Screen Snapshots, Series 22, No. 5 (1942); Screen Snapshots, Series 22, No. 8 (1943); Screen Snapshots, Series 23, No. 2 (1943); Screen Snapshots, Series 24, No. 9 (1945); Screen Snapshots, Series 29, No. 10: Hollywood's Famous Feet (1950); Screen Snapshots, Series 29, No. 6: It Was Only Yesterday (1950); Screen Snapshots, Series 31, No. 5: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians (1952); Screen Snapshots, Series 32, No. 8: Hollywood's Greatest Comedians (1953); Screen Snapshots, Series 35, No. 2: The Great Al Jolson (1955); Screen Snapshots, Series 35, No. 8: Playtime in Hollywood (1956); Showbiz Ballyhoo (1982); Showdown at Ulcer Gulch (1956); Shower of Stars (1954); Skidoo (1968); Special Collector's Edition (2011–2012); Starring Dick Van Dyke (2025); Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937); Supermensch (2013); Television (1988); Tell It to Groucho (1961–1962); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 22nd Annual Tony Awards (1968); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The 46th Annual Academy Awards (1974); The 50 Greatest Comedy Films (2006); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2005); The Alan Hamel Show (1977); The Arthur Murray Party (1953); The Beatles... Off the Record: Newsreel Footage 1964-1966 (2001); The Bell Telephone Hour (1960); The Big Parade of Comedy (1964); The Big Store (1941); The Bob Hope Show (1964); The Capote Tapes (2019); The Celebrity Game (1964); The Cocoanuts (1929); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1954); The Comedians' Comedian (2005); The Dating Game (1967); The David Frost Show (1970); The David Susskind Show (1960–1963); The Dead Sullivan Show (2017); The Dick Cavett Show (1969–1971); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1959); The DuPont Show of the Week (1961); The Ed Sullivan Show (1954); The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen (1995); The Groucho Marx Collector's Classic (1985); The History of Comedy (2018); The Hollywood Palace (1964–1982); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1971); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Jack Benny Program (1955); The Jackie Gleason Show (1967–1969); The Joey Bishop Show (1967); The King and the Chorus Girl (1937); The Kraft Music Hall (1967–1968); The Last Laugh (2016); The Legend of Marilyn Monroe (1965); The Les Crane Show (1964); The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1998); The Life of Riley (1949); The Life of Riley (1953–1958); The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians (1970); The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine (1971); The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell (1982); The Merv Griffin Show (1967–1976); The Michael Knowles Show (2017); The Mike Douglas Show (1974); The Miracle of Sound (1940); The Movie Orgy (1968); The Movies (2019); The NBC Comedy Hour (1956); The New Steve Allen Show (1963); The One, the Only... Groucho (1991); The Our Gang Story (1994); The Plot Thickens (1963); The Popsicle Parade of Stars (1950); The Project (2025); The Sixties (2014); The Source (1999); The Sparks Brothers (2021); The Steve Allen Show (1956–1958); The Story of Mankind (1957); The Sunday Spectacular: Show Biz from Vaudeville to Video (1955); The Swift Show Wagon with Horace Heidt and the American Way (1955); The Tonight Show (1962); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1958–1961); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 25th Anniversary Special (1987); The Unknown Marx Brothers (1993); The UnXplained (2020); The Walking Dead (2020); The Wonder Years (1990); These Amazing Shadows (2011); This Is Elvis (1981); This Is Your Life (1955); Today (1963); TV: The Fabulous Fifties (1978); TV's Censored Bloopers #4 (1982); TV's Funniest Game Show Moments (1984); Un jour, une histoire (2014); V.O.S.: Lo que NO te cuentan (2021); Wayne and Shuster Take an Affectionate Look at... (1965); We Remember Marilyn (1996); Welcome to the Basement (2013); Whatever Works (2009); What's My Line? (1959–1967); What's My Line? At 25 (1975); When We Went MAD! (2025); Who Said That? (1953–1955); Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957); Wonderland of California (1933); You Bet Your Life (1950–1961); You Bet Your Life: The Lost Episodes (2003); Yours for the Asking (1936); Zaz: Prends garde à ta langue (2018).