| * | July 12, 1909 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA | |
| as Joseph Wardell | ||
| † | July 3, 1993 Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Ronald L. Smith Who's Who in Comedy, Comedians, Comics and Clowns From Vaudeville to Today's Stand-ups New York, Oxford, 1992 |
| Frank N. Magill (ed.) Magill's Cinema Annual 1994, A Survey of the Films of 1993 Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1994 |