Groucho Marx

Rum and Coca cola was Maury Amsterdam--although I think there was a lawsuit over it.

Landmark gets it...again!

Tag, you're it.

Just to clarify, its Morey Amsterdam.

Thanks for the correct spelling, Mark.

1. The American Film Institute named me the fifth-greatest star of my sex of Classic Hollywood cinema in 100 Years... 100 Stars

2. My given last name was the same as a famous historical battle.

3. I had a successful act with my sibling for a while.

Carey grant

No, not Archie Leach.

4. I was never in the Navy, but my name is an anagram of a sea drifter.

Peter Childs

I had to look that one up, Cliff. No, not Peter Childs.

5. I made a series of four highly rated Emmy Award-winning musical specials for television in 1958, 1959, 1960, and 1968.

6. I appeared in four episodes of a popular tv series where I played the father of the main character.

Rock Hudson?

Not Rock.

7. The report written after my screen test began, "Can't act. Slightly bald..."

8. And concluded, "...Also dances"

Fred Astaire

You got it. "A sea drifter" is an anagram of Fred Astaire. His original name was Fred Austerlitz, like the famous Battle of Austerlitz.

1. I was born in 1906
2. I come from Illinois
3. I was born illegitamte, and my mother altered my birth certificate to 1908.

4. My last name is German one, and easily made fun of. During World War I, I was in elementary school, and was put down often.
5. As a professional, I dropped the German moniker, and went with my first and middle names.

6. I went to college and got a business degree. To be a business man was the goal I had set.

9. But I had just finished my degree when the 1929 stock market crashed.
10. I had to take odd jobs to get by, including insurance salesman and trapeze artist.

11. While performing as a clown in Mexico I met the woman I would soon marry.

12. I soon found more meaningful work in radio, both behind the microphone and as a writer.