George Givot Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

George Givot Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

George David Givot (February , â€" June , ) was a Russian-born

American comedian and actor on Broadway and in vaudeville, movies,

television and radio. He was known for speaking in a comedic fake

Greek dialect and was styled the "Greek Ambassador of Good Will". His

best known movie role may be as the voice of Tony in the Disney film

Lady and the Tramp ().Givot stated that he actually did not know who

his parents are; he was adopted by a French family when he was three.

According to official documents, he was born on February in

Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipro, Ukraine), Russian Empire, to Walf

Givistinsky - later William Wolf Givot(-) and Sofya - later Sarah -

Givistinsky (née Garber) (-).According to the census, the family

emigrated to the US in and settled in Omaha, Nebraska. They later

moved to Chicago, where Givot went to high school and college. His

night school journalism instructor became fed up with the class clown

and sent him to see the man in charge of the midnight to am

broadcasts at a radio station, who hired him. Paul Ash heard Givot

perform and gave him his start in vaudeville.Givot was one of the

earliest, perhaps the earliest, Greek dialect comedians, working in

vaudeville, nightclubs, film and radio from the s on. He had learned

some Greek working in a Greek candy store in Omaha as a soda jerk. In

, Billboard magazine reviewer Bill Smith panned his performance in one

East Side venue ("saw him take the prize for dullness"), but praised

him for the same routines in "Billy Rose's mauve decade nitery":
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