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He adopted the stage name Henry Gibson, which is a same-sounding phrase for the name of famed Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. He also is known to have used the name Olsen Gibson. Career. Gibson began his acting career at the age of eight years old as a touring performer for the Mae Desmond Theatre for nine years.
Henry Gibson is actually a stage name - he was born James Bateman. He named himself after Norwegian poet Henrik Ibsen because "...if you say his name with a Southern accent, it sounds like Henry Gibson".
- September 21, 1935
- September 14, 2009
Henry Gibson was born on 21 September 1935 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Before appearing in films and television series, he was a child star on the stage during the 1940s and during the late 1950s he was an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force.
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- Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- January 1, 1
- Malibu, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Henry Gibson and Ruth Buzzi in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967)- Sammy Davis Jr. and Henry Gibson in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967)
- Henry Gibson, Dave Madden, and Dan Rowan in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967)
- Henry Gibson, Davy Jones, Dave Madden, Alan Sues, and Byron Gilliam in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967)
- Henry Gibson and J.J. Barry in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967)
- Peter Falk and Henry Gibson in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967)
Sep 17, 2009 · Mr. Gibson, whose real name was James Bateman, was born on Sept. 21, 1935, in Philadelphia, and at the age of 8 he began acting.
Henry Gibson, a veteran character actor who came to fame in the late 1960s as the flower-holding poet on TV’s landmark satirical comedy show “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,” has died. He was 73.
James Bateman chose the stage name 'Henry Gibson' because it is an oronym for the name of famous Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. During his early career, he also called himself Olsen Gibson.
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Sep 16, 2009 · After serving in the Air Force and studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Gibson - born James Bateman in Germantown, Pa., in 1935 - created his Henry Gibson comic persona, a pun on...
