highest rated
acting
- Pioneers of Primetime
- Red Skelton: America's Greatest Clown → Red Skelton
- Red Skelton: Bloopers, Blunders, and Ad Libs → Himself (Host)/Various Characters
- Television: The First Fifty Years → Buffalo Bob Smith / Howdy Doody (archive footage)
- Inside the Dream Factory → Self
- A Tribute to Houdini → Self
- That's Dancing! → From 'Bathing Beauty' (archive footage)
- Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers → Self (archive footage)
- Red Skelton: A Royal Command Performance → Himself
- Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner → Freddie the Freeloader
- The Hollywood Clowns → (archive footage)
- Rudolph's Shiny New Year → Father Time / Baby Bear (voice)
- The People's Command Performance: '77 → Self
- That's Entertainment, Part II → (archive footage)
- America on Parade → Host
- That's Entertainment! → (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Swing Out, Sweet Land → Self
- Jack Benny's 20th Anniversary TV Special → Self (uncredited)
- Honor America Day → Self
- The Dean Martin Christmas Show → Self (uncredited)
- Clown Alley → Freddie the Freeloader
- Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes → The Neanderthal Man
- The Big Parade of Comedy → Aubrey Filmore in 'A Southern Yankee' (archive footage)
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV) → Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV) → Self (archive footage)
- Ocean's Eleven → Self
- The Man in the Funny Suit → Self
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (TV) → Self
- The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour (TV) → Red Skeleton
- Public Pigeon No. 1 → Rusty Morgan
- The Steve Allen Show (TV) → Self - Cameo / Clem Kadiddlehopper
- The Steve Allen Show (TV) → Self
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (TV) → Self
- Around the World in 80 Days → Drunk in Barbary Coast Saloon
- The Country Husband → Self - Announcing Next Week's Show
- Red Skelton Christmas Classics → Main
- Climax! (TV) → Rusty Morgan
- Susan Slept Here → Oswald from North Dakota (uncredited)
- The Great Diamond Robbery → Ambrose C. Park
- The Oscars (TV) → Self
- The Clown → Dodo Delwyn
- Half a Hero → Ben Dobson
- This Is Your Life (TV) → Self
- Lovely to Look At → Al Marsh
- The Red Skelton Show (TV) → Host
- Excuse My Dust → Joe Belden
- Texas Carnival → Cornie Quinell
- What's My Line? (TV) → Self - Mystery Guest
- The Bob Hope Show (TV) → Self
- The Jack Benny Program (TV) → Self
- The Fuller Brush Girl → Red Skelton - Fuller Brush Man (uncredited)
- Three Little Words → Harry Ruby
- The Yellow Cab Man → Augustus 'Red' Pirdy
- Watch the Birdie → Rusty Cammeron / Pop Cammeron / Grandpop Cammeron
- Neptune's Daughter → Jack Spratt
- The Ed Sullivan Show (TV) → Self
- Texaco Star Theater (TV) → Clem Kadiddlehopper
- The Fuller Brush Man → Red Jones
- A Southern Yankee → Aubrey Filmore
- Merton of the Movies → Merton Gill aka Clifford Armytage
- The Show-Off → J. Aubrey Piper
- Ziegfeld Follies → J. Newton Numbskull (segment "When Television Comes")
- Bathing Beauty → Steve Elliott
- Twenty Years After → (archive footage)
- Du Barry Was a Lady → Louis Blore / King Louis XV
- Thousands Cheer → Red Skelton
- I Dood It → Joseph 'Joe' Rivington Renolds
- Whistling in Brooklyn → Wally 'The Fox' Benton
- Whistling in Dixie → Wally Benton
- Panama Hattie → Red
- Ship Ahoy → Merton K. Kibble
- Maisie Gets Her Man → Herbert P. 'Hap' Hixby
- Lady Be Good → Joe 'Red' Willet
- Whistling in the Dark → Wally Benton
- Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day → Vernon Briggs
- The People Vs. Dr. Kildare → Vernon Briggs
- Flight Command → Lieut. 'Mugger' Martin
- Seeing Red → Red / Doorman / Coatroom Attendant / Waiter / Emcee
- The Broadway Buckaroo → Red
- Having Wonderful Time → Itchy