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Buddy Hackett
Age: 78 (passed away Jun. 30th, 2003)
Height: 5' 6"
Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Born: Aug. 31st, 1924
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BIOGRAPHY: Comedian, actor, author and composer, educated at New Utrecht High School and a member of ASCAP since 1936. He appeared in the Broadway musicals "Lunatics and Lovers" and "I Had a Ball", and he composed the music for his Chinese-waiter comedy recording "Chinese Rock and Egg Roll".
TRIVIA:
- In 1953, gossip columns reported that Universal Pictures wanted to team Buddy Hackett with his friend, popular baritone 'Alan Dale (II)' (qv), as their studio's answer to Paramount's box office sensations, 'Dean Martin (I)' (qv) and 'Jerry Lewis (I)' (qv). Nothing came of the idea because Dale preferred to remain a solo act. Hackett, however, did appear in Universal's _Walking My Baby Back Home (1953)_ (qv) later that year.
- Served three years in the Army with an antiaircraft unit during World War II. On a furlough in 1945, he returned home and bought a ticket to see the musical "Oklahoma!". He decided on a career in show business following his discharge.
- Next door neighbor of 'Sandy Koufax' (qv) in childhood.
- Although his on-stage humor was not nearly as raw, in retrospect, as many of the young comedians who would succeed him, his frequently ribald performances in nightclubs and in concert came as something of a shock to those who had enjoyed his "cleaned-up" (at the behest of the censors) performances on TV and in films.
- Son of Philip Hackett and Anna Geller.
- He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Live Theatre at 6834 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 224-226. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.
- Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 201-202. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
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