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Buddy Hackett (born Leonard Hacker; August 31, 1924 – June 30, 2003) was an American 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 in The Love ...
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.
Jan 30, 2013 · Buddy Hackett, one of America's legendary comedians, performs a classic routine from his newly released DVD set available at http://www.Laugh.Com.
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 · Buddy Hackett, who broke into comedy as a young waiter-performer in New York’s Catskill Mountains and went on to achieve iconic status as a raunchy nightclub performer and rubber-faced...
Oct 24, 2010 · Hackett, a great comedian who died this week at 78, was engaged in a lifelong struggle with weight and cholesterol, although once he had me feel his calf muscles: "Hard as steel! I'm a great skier." Hackett lived nearby, but checked into Pritikin to isolate himself from life's temptations.
Jul 16, 2003 · Buddy Hackett, who delighted nightclub, radio, film and television audiences with his slapstick humor, died Monday at his home in Malibu, where he’d lived for more than 40 years. He was 78. The...
Jul 1, 2003 · Buddy Hackett, the round-faced comedian famous for his dual careers — as a regular in family films, and as a nightclub comic innocently delivering X-rated jokes out of the corner of his mouth —...
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.
