News Don Rickles' Life in Photos By Madeline Boardman Madeline Boardman Madeline Boardman is a former digital features director at Entertainment Weekly. She left EW in 2017. EW's editorial guidelines Published on April 6, 2017 03:45PM EDT Close 01 of 46 Don Rickles Through the Years NBC/Getty Images Don Rickles died Thursday at the age of 90. Born in New York on May 8, 1926, the comedian rose to fame in the 1950s, appearing on talk shows and picking up small-screen acting work. Pictured here on September 18, 1968, Rickles won an Emmy in 2008 for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project and counted Hollywood greats like Frank Sinatra and Bob Newhart among his friends and contemporaries. See photos of the late star through the years, ahead. 02 of 46 Don Rickles on The Twilight Zone on July 29, 1960 CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images 03 of 46 Don Rickles With Danny Thomas in the 1960s NBC/Getty Images 04 of 46 Don Rickles With Joan Rivers on Kraft Music Hall on August 21, 1968 NBC/GETTY IMAGES 05 of 46 Don Rickles With Frank Sinatra at the Academy Awards on April 14, 1969 Everett Collection 06 of 46 Don Rickles With Dean Martin on The Dean Martin Show in the late 1960s NBC/Getty Images 07 of 46 Don Rickles With Barbara Rickles and Lawrence Corey Rickles on May 15, 1970 Harold Filan/AP 08 of 46 Don Rickles on The Carol Burnett Show on October 23, 1970 CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images 09 of 46 Don Rickles With Bob Hope in 1970 Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images 10 of 46 Don Rickles With Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on May 12, 1974 Gary Null/NBC/Getty Images 11 of 46 Don Rickles with Barbara Rickles in Hollywood on May 28, 1974 AP 12 of 46 Don Rickles in Los Angeles on January 16, 1975 George Brich/AP 13 of 46 Don Rickles With Ed McMahon on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on May 3, 1976 Fred Sabine/NBC/Getty Images 14 of 46 Don Rickles With Scatman Crothers on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on July 26, 1976 NBC/Getty Images 15 of 46 Don Rickles With Steve Garvey at the National League Playoffs in Los Angeles on October 5, 1977 AP 16 of 46 Don Rickles With Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on January 6, 1976 NBC/Getty Images 17 of 46 Don Rickles With George Burns and Lisa Miller in Beverly Hills on October 15, 1976 AP 18 of 46 Don Rickles in Los Angeles in the 1970s Martin Mills/Getty Images 19 of 46 Don Rickles With Frank Sinatra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on November 14, 1977 Gary Null/NBC/Getty Images 20 of 46 Don Rickles With Red Buttons at an Annual Stag Roast in Los Angeles on November 10, 1977 LM/AP 21 of 46 Don Rickles With Henny Youngman, Sugar Ray, Milton Berle, and Jack Albertson in Beverly Hills on November 17, 1978 Doug Pizac/AP 22 of 46 Don Rickles With Red Buttons at a Friars Roast in Buttons’ Honor in Los Angeles on November 15, 1982 Doug Pizac/AP 23 of 46 Don Rickles With Barbara Rickles and Mindy Rickles in Hollywood on January 26, 1983 Ron Galella/WireImage 24 of 46 Don Rickles on Saturday Night Live on January 28, 1984 REGGIE LEE/NBC/GETTY IMAGES 25 of 46 Don Rickles in Los Angeles in 1985 Harry Langdon/Getty Images 26 of 46 Don Rickles With Red Buttons at Milton Berle's 80th Birthday Celebration in Hollywood on July 12, 1988 Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage 27 of 46 Don Rickles With Frank Sinatra and Barbara Sinatra in Los Angeles on May 22, 1990 Bob GalbraithAP 28 of 46 Don Rickles With Bob Newhart at Marvin Davis' Birthday Party in West Hollywood on June 25, 1991 Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage 29 of 46 Don Rickles With Richard Lewis and Frank Sinatra on Daddy Dearest in 1993 Everett Collection 30 of 46 Don Rickles With Robert DeNiro in Casino in 1995 Phillip Caruso/Universal 31 of 46 Don Rickles With Jay Leno on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on February 10, 1995 NBC/Getty Images 32 of 46 Don Rickles With Peter Falk and Bob Newhart at the Carousel of Hope in Los Angeles in 1996 Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic 33 of 46 Don Rickles at the Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort in Mount Pleasant, Mich. on August 27, 1998 Becky McAlpin/Midland Daily News/AP 34 of 46 Don Rickles in New York on May 18, 2007 Richard Drew/AP 35 of 46 Don Rickles on November 6, 2007 Anne Cusack/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images 36 of 46 Kathy Griffin With Don Rickles at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on September 21, 2008 Mark J. Terrill/AP 37 of 46 Don Rickles at the TV Land Awards on April 19, 2009 Dan Steinberg/AP 38 of 46 Don Rickles at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on September 21, 2008 Mark J. Terrill/AP 39 of 46 Don Rickles at the 2012 Comedy Awards in New York on April 28, 2012 Charles Sykes/AP 40 of 46 Don Rickles With Barbara Rickles at Comedy Central's Comedy Awards 2012 in New York City on April 28, 2012 Frank Micelotta/PictureGroup/AP 41 of 46 Don Rickles With John Mayer, Joan Rivers, Bob Newhart, Kathy Griffin, Bob Saget, and Lewis Black at the Friars Foundation Annual Applause Award Gala in New York City on June 24, 2013 Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage 42 of 46 Don Rickles With Martin Scorsese, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, and Johnny Depp at Spike TV's Don Rickles: One Night Only in New York City on May 6, 2014 Kevin Mazur/Getty Images 43 of 46 Don Rickles With Robert DeNiro at the Comedy Awards 2012 in New York City on April 28, 2012 Kevin Mazur/WireImage 44 of 46 Don Rickles With Miss Piggy and Regis Philbin at Tony Bennett Celebrates 90: The Best Is Yet to Come on September 14, 2016 Virginia Sherwood/NBC/NBCU 45 of 46 Don Rickles With Jimmy Kimmel and John Stamos on Jimmy Kimmel Live on October 10, 2016 Randy Holmes/ABC via Getty Images 46 of 46 Don Rickles at the 16th Annual AARP The Magazine's Movies For Grownups Awards in Beverly Hills on February 6, 2017 Gabriel Olsen/Getty Images