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Buddy Hackett (born Leonard Hacker; August 31, 1924 – June 30, 2003) was an American actor and comedian. 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 Bug (1968), and the voice of Scuttle in The Little Mermaid (1989).
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.
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.
Jul 1, 2003 · Buddy Hackett, the squat, round, rubbery-faced funnyman who appeared for more than 50 years as a top act in nightclubs, Broadway shows, on television and in such movies as "The...
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...
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 · Buddy Hackett, the doughy-faced comedian and character actor who had a handful of Broadway credits, including the musical, I Had a Ball, was found dead in his Malibu home June 30, according...
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.
