Al Jolson

Canwr, digrifwr ac actor Americanaidd oedd Al Jolson (26 Mai 1886 – 23 Hydref 1950). Yn ôl y Gwasanaeth Ddarlledu Gyhoeddus, caiff ei ystyried "yr Iddew agored cyntaf i fod yn seren ym myd adloniant yn America". Parhaodd ei yrfa o 1911 tan ei farwolaeth ym 1950, ac yn ystod y cyfnod hynny, cafodd ei ddisgrifio'n aml fel "diddanwr gorau'r byd”.

Al Jolson
Ffugenw	Al Jolson
Ganwyd	Asa Yoelson  26 Mai 1886  Seredžius
Bu farw	23 Hydref 1950  San Francisco
Label recordio	Decca Records, Victor
Dinasyddiaeth	Ymerodraeth Rwsia, Unol Daleithiau America
Galwedigaeth	actor, actor ffilm, canwr, cerddor jazz, cerddor, actor llwyfan, digrifwr, artist recordio, cyfansoddwr caneuon
Cyflogwr	Warner Bros.
Arddull	Vaudeville, cerddoriaeth bop, draddodiadol, y felan
Plaid Wleidyddol	plaid Weriniaethol
Priod	Ruby Keeler
Gwobr/au	seren ar Rodfa Enwogion Hollywood
Gwefan	http://www.jolson.org/

Ffilmograffiaeth

• Mammy's Boy (1923) (anorffenedig)
• A Plantation Act (1926)
• The Jazz Singer (1927)
• The Singing Fool (1928)
• Hollywood Snapshots No. 11 (1929) (pwnc byr)
• Sonny Boy (1929) (Cameo)
• Say It with Songs (1929)
• New York Nights (1929) (Cameo)
• Mammy (1930)
• Show Girl in Hollywood (1930) (Cameo)
• Big Boy (1930)
• Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933)
• Wonder Bar (1934)
• Go Into Your Dance (1935)
• Paramount Headliner: Broadway Highlights No. 1 (1935) (pwnc byr)
• The Singing Kid (1936)
• Hollywood Handicap (1938) (pwnc byr)
• Rose of Washington Square (1939)
• Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
• Swanee River (1939)
• Rhapsody in Blue (1945) (golygfa fer gyda Jolson gyda wyneb du yn cyflwyno "Swanee")
• The Jolson Story (1946) (dwbl a llais canu ar gyfer Larry Parks gydag ymddangosiad byr ar sgrn)
• Screen Snapshots: Off the Air (1947) (pwnc byr)
• Jolson Sings Again (1949) (llais canu ar gyfer Larry Parks)
• Oh, You Beautiful Doll (1949) (llais yn unig)
• Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Famous Feet (1950) (pwnc byr) (adroddwr)
• Memorial to Al Jolson, (1951) rhaglen ddogfen - Columbia Pictures
• The Great Al Jolson, (1955) rhaglen ddogfen, Columbia Pictures

Theatr

• La Belle Paree (1911)
• Vera Violetta (1911)
• The Whirl of Society (1912)
• The Honeymoon Express (1913)
• Children of the Ghetto (before 1915)
• Robinson Crusoe, Jr. (1916)
• Sinbad (1918)
• Bombo (1921)
• Big Boy (1925)
• Artists and Models of 1925 (1925) (ychwanegwyd i'r cast yn 1926)
• Big Boy (1926) (adfywiad)
• The Wonder Bar (1931)
• Hold on to Your Hats (1940)

Caneuon enwog

• That Haunting Melodie (1911) Cân lwyddiannus gyntaf Jolson.
• Ragging the Baby to Sleep (1912)
• The Spaniard That Blighted My Life (1912)
• That Little German Band (1913)
• You Made Me Love You (1913)
• Back to the Carolina You Love (1914)
• Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula (1916)
• I Sent My Wife to the Thousand Isles (1916)
• I'm All Bound Round With the Mason Dixon Line (1918)
• Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody (1918)
• Tell That to the Marines (1919)
• I'll Say She Does (1919)
• I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now (1919)
• Swanee (1919)
• Avalon (1920)
• O-H-I-O (O-My! O!) (1921)
• April Showers (1921)
• Angel Child (1922)
• Coo Coo' (1922)
• Oogie Oogie Wa Wa (1922)
• That Wonderful Kid From Madrid (1922)
• Toot, Toot, Tootsie (1922)
• Juanita (1923)

Taflen gerddoriaeth 1922

• California, Here I Come (1924)
• I Wonder What's Become of Sally? (1924)
• All Alone (1925)
• I'm Sitting on Top of the World (1926)
• When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along (1926)
• My Mammy (1927)
• Back in Your Own Backyard (1928)
• There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1928)
• Sonny Boy (1928)
• Little Pal (1929)
• Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away) (1929)
• Let Me Sing and I'm Happy (1930)
• The Cantor (A Chazend'l Ofn Shabbos) (1932)
• You Are Too Beautiful (1933)
• Ma Blushin' Rosie (1946)
• Anniversary Song (1946)
• Alexander's Ragtime Band (1947)
• Carolina in the Morning (1947)
• About a Quarter to Nine (1947)
• Waiting for the Robert E. Lee (1947)
• Golden Gate (1947)
• When You Were Sweet Sixteen (1947)
• If I Only Had a Match (1947)
• After You've Gone (1949)
• Is It True What They Say About Dixie? (1949)
• Are You Lonesome Tonight? (1950)