Freddie Trenkler

Freddie Trenkler was born on January 9, 1913 in Austria. He was a comic ice skater, dressed in rags and known for his hilarious stumbles and falls on Broadway, Television and Movies.

"Combining amazing . skill with amusing slapstick, Trenkler dashes madly round the ice, tears toward the audience, stops dead on his heels a half-inch south of the pit. Amid much that is pleasant, Icetime suffers from too little display of skill and too much display of scenery." --TIME Magazine, July 3, 1944

Freddie died at age 88 on May 21, 2001 in California.

Television

• Toast of the Town: The Ed Sullivan Show (1957)

Movies

• The Countess of Monte Cristo (1948)

Broadway

• Icetime (1946-47)
• It Happens on Ice (1941-42)