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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 ...
Buddy Hackett was a nightclub comic who also appeared in films such as The Music Man and The Little Mermaid. He died in 2003 at age 78 and was married to Sherry Cohen.
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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.
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Jul 1, 2003 · Buddy Hackett was a versatile and irreverent comedian who performed in nightclubs, Broadway shows, movies and TV. He was known for his Chinese waiter routine, his role in "The Music Man" and his refusal to join the Three Stooges.
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.
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, 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...
