Chortled TV Comic Jackie Gleason last ... suddenly been made a cardinal.” Gleason’s new eminence came as a double helping: his hour-long Saturday night show on CBS was newly rated No. 1 ...

Gleason is also known for developing "The Jackie Gleason Show" that consistently had high ratings from the mid-1950s to the 1970s. He also starred in notable films alongside Hollywood heavyweights ...

1949 with Jackie Gleason (pre-Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners) as the blundering family man Chester A. Riley. The Life of Riley was based on the earlier radio show and movie of the same name ...