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- Buddy Hackett (born Leonard Hacker; August 31, 1924 – June 30, 2003) was an American comedian and comic actor.
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Buddy Hackett (born Leonard Hacker; August 31, 1924 – June 30, 2003) was an American comedian and comic actor. Known for his raunchy material, heavy appearance, and thick New York accent, his best remembered roles include Marcellus Washburn in The Music Man (1962), Benjy Benjamin in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Tennessee Steinmetz ...
Buddy Hackett. Actor: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Brooklyn-born Buddy Hackett was known mainly as a nightclub comic, especially in Las Vegas, where he first performed in 1952 and wound up being one of the biggest headliners in that city's history.
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Buddy Hackett. Actor: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Brooklyn-born Buddy Hackett was known mainly as a nightclub comic, especially in Las Vegas, where he first performed in 1952 and wound up being one of the biggest headliners in that city's history.
- Actor, Writer, Producer
- June 30, 2003
- August 31, 1924
Comedian. For more than 50 years Buddy Hackett kept audiences roaring with laughter. He worked his way up from a joke–telling waiter in the Catskills of New York to a headliner on the stages of Las Vegas, Nevada. He was a veteran of early television and even had his own show for a while.
Jul 1, 2003 · Buddy Hackett, the streetwise comedian from Brooklyn with a face like a plate of mashed potatoes, died yesterday at his beach house in Malibu, Calif. He was 78.
Jul 1, 2003 · Veteran funnyman Buddy Hackett, one of the scene-stealers from the classic all-star 1963 comedy “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,” and a talk-show staple in the ’60s, has died at age 78, his...
(b. 31 August 1924 in Brooklyn, New York; d. 30 June 2003 in Malibu, California), stand-up comedian and comic actor known for sometimes bawdy and ethnically charged material who rose to national prominence in the 1950s and enjoyed a long career in nightclubs, films, television, and on the stage.