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Portrait of Jerry Lewis

According to Bonhams, the reverse side was stamped with "Paramount Photo by Bud Fraker". According to mptvimages.com, Fraker was born in 1916, died in 2002, and worked as Director of Still Photography at Columbia and later Paramount. · Public domain

Jerry Lewis

American comedian, actor and film director

1926 – 2017aged 91

One half of the double act with Dean Martin that ran nightclubs, radio, and sixteen buddy-comedy films from 1946 until an acrimonious split a decade later, after which Lewis built a solo career as actor and director of slapstick vehicles like The Nutty Professor. He hosted The Tonight Show a record fifty-two times. For over four decades he was the face of the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, an annual Labor Day broadcast that raised $2.45 billion for muscular dystrophy research by 2009. France awarded him the Legion of Honor.

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