He played a paratrooper in Найдовший день (1962), was nominated for a Golden Globe for Harlow (1965) and again for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969). His performance garnered him an Academy Award, and more film roles followed. He worked steadily for the next several years, and in 1957 got his big film break in the drama Sayonara (1957) with Marlon Brando, in which he played an American soldier stationed in Japan who struggled against the societal and racist pressures of both American and Japanese cultures because of his love for a Japanese woman. It lasted three years and won Buttons an Emmy for Best Comedian. He was successful enough that he got his own TV series, The Red Buttons Show (1952), on CBS. After his discharge from the service he returned to Broadway, both in plays and as a comic with several big-band orchestras. Marine Corps, and in 1943 was picked for a role in Moss Hart's service play 'Winged Victory' on Broadway, and soon afterwards journeyed to Hollywood to make the film version. Buttons worked the burlesque circuit as a comic and even landed a role in a Broadway play, 'Vicki', in 1942.

At 16 he got a job as part of a comedy act playing the famed Catskills resort area in upstate New York (his partner was future actor Robert Alda). Born Aaron Chwatt in New York City's Lower East Side, Buttons (who got his name from a uniform he wore while working as a singing bellhop) started his show-business career singing on street corners as a child. Although Red Buttons is best known as a stand-up comic, he is also a successful songwriter, an Academy Award-winning actor (and has been nominated for two Golden Globe awards) and an accomplished singer.

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