What 1940's male comedian starred in short films shown on early 1960's TV (not The 3 Stooges?)

Could it be Don Beddoe?

It might have been Buster Keaton . . .

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. . . or Harold Lloyd . . .

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(Those glasses were the major part of Lloyd's "trademark" appearance.)

I don't know if Buster Keaton successfully made the transition to "talkies," but i do know that Harold Lloyd did. They flourished in the 1920s and -30s. As for the 1940s, nobody leaps to mind . . .

Keaton was in the film version of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

My first thought was Soupy Sales.
Keaton died in the 60's and I don't remember a TV show at that time with him.

I think this member was referring to the habit that television stations had of showing 1930s and -40s film shorts on their children's shows, and not to a contemporary television show.

Perhaps Eddy Bracken?

I waas gonna say Eddy Braken or even Robert Benchley. Benchley always starred in ridiculous "how to" lips and shorts or his own works like my favorite Benchley thing "The Treasurer's Report" .

Are you sure it was from the 1940s? Most studios had abandoned live-action comedy shorts (a staple of every studio in the 1920s and early '30s) in favor of animated cartoons. About the only comedians left doing comedy shorts by the late 1930s and 1940s, apart from the Three Stooges and Our Gang, were Charley Chase, Edgar Kennedy, and George O'Hanlon in the "Joe McDoakes" shorts. They all played husband-types rather than boyfriends, so your scenario isn't a likely vehicle for any of them (Chase would have played that role in the '20s, probably not in the '40s).

Here's Charly Chase in what is probably the second reel of a 1927 two-reel comedy called "The Way of All Pants." Premise: a wife buys a new pair of pants as a present for her husband. Chase, the sales clerk, models the pants for the wife and delivers them to her home.