Biography
William Penn Adair Rogers was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory, now part of Oklahoma, and is known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son". As an entertainer and humorist, he traveled around the world three times, made 71 films, and wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns. By the mid-1930s, Rogers was hugely popular in the United States for his leading political wit and was one of the higher paid Hollywood film stars. He died in 1935 with aviator Wiley Post when their small airplane crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Utqiaġvik, Alaska, in northern Alaska.
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Awards & recognition
- National Aviation Hall of Fame · 1977
- Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Filmography9 titles
The Golden Age of Comedy
Doctor Bull
Judge Priest
They Had to See Paris
State Fair
A Connecticut Yankee
Stand Up and Cheer!
The Headless Horseman
Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling