Buddy Hackett
Best known for his raunchy Las Vegas routine, Buddy Hackett has also enjoyed substantial Broadway, film and TV success throughout the years. A short round kid with a smart mouth, he had every intention of going into the family upholstering business, despite having made his professional debut on the 'Borscht Circuit' at the age of 15, but upon returning to New York after World War II service, he began performing at clubs like the Pink Palace in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Headlining at comedy clubs led to a starring role in the hit road production of "Call Me Mister" (1946) and his first foray into TV on the DuMont Network's "School House" (1948-49). Hackett first cracked features in "Walking My Baby Back Home" (1953) and took Broadway by storm in the revival of "Lunatics and Lovers," winning the 1955 Donaldson Award for Best Debut Performance--Male. He then returned to TV in a live situation comedy, starring opposite Carol Burnett and Paul Lynde as "Stanley" (NBC, 1956-57), the outgoing proprietor of a newsstand in a fancy New York hotel. Hackett's shtick featured a wide range of facial expressions and a distinctive voice often delivered out of the side of his mouth, but in "God's Little Acre" (1958), Anthony Mann's adaptation of the Erskine Caldwell novel, he brought a real depth to his role as the whimsical, ridiculed Pluto. A regular on CBS' "The Jackie Gleason Show" during the 1958-59 season, he also started simultaneously contributing to "The Tonight Show," starring Jack Paar, where he remained a regular until 1962. Hackett was back at his zaniest as a Chickisaw Indian sailor who mates a turkey with a pelican in the lightweight "All Hands on Deck" and remained a simple seaman for the equally slight "Everything's Ducky" (both 1961), this time sharing a series of juvenile misadventures with Mickey Rooney and a talking duck. He followed with the popular screen version of the hit musical "The Music Man" (1963), restraining himself for the sake of the story in his role as Marcellus Washburn, and then pulled out all the stops for Stanley Kramer's madcap blockbuster "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" (1963), scoring mightily in his runaway aircraft sequence with Rooney.
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Buddy Hackett
Filmography
Movies
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20% |
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The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea | Scuttle (Voice) | - | 2000 |
62% |
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Paulie | Artie (Character) | $27.0M | 1998 |
92% |
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The Little Mermaid | Scuttle (Voice) | $109.9M | 1989 |
71% |
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Scrooged | Scrooge (Character) | $58.2M | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hey Babe! | Sammy Cohen (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet |
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Loose Shoes | Self | - | 1980 |
57% |
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Jack Frost | Pardon-Me-Pete (Voice) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bud and Lou | Lou Costello (Character) | - | 1978 |
17% |
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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys | Ed (Character) | - | 1969 |
78% |
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The Love Bug | Tennessee Steinmetz (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet |
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Muscle Beach Party | S.Z. Matts (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Golden Head | Lionel Pack (Character) | - | 1964 |
69% |
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Benjy Benjamin (Character) | - | 1963 |
94% |
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The Music Man | Marcellus Washburn (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet |
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | Hans (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | All Hands on Deck | Shrieking Eagle Garfield (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet |
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Everything's Ducky | Seaman Admiral John Paul `'Ad'` Jones (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet |
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God's Little Acre | Pluto Swint (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fireman Save My Child | Smokey Hinkle (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Walking My Baby Back Home | Blimp Edwards (Character) | - | 1953 |
TV
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93% | 100% | Action | Lonnie Valiant (Character) | 1999 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | All That | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Just Shoot Me | Himself (Guest Star) | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Sabrina, the Teenage Witch | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
No Score Yet | 86% | Boy Meets World | Mr. Fontini (Guest Star) | 1996 |
91% | 80% | Dinosaurs | Louie (Guest Voice) | 1992 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Murray Gruen (Guest Star) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fall Guy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982-1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Disney's Wonderful World | Tennessee Steinmetz (Character) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | McMillan and Wife | Joey Germaine (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Guest | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Here's Lucy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lucy Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | 84% | Get Smart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I've Got a Secret | Guest | 1965-1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big Valley | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1957 1960 1962 1964-1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Trials of O'Brien | Oliver Maxwell (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Joey Bishop Show | Himself (Guest Star) | 1963-1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rifleman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Danny Thomas Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stanley | Stanley (Character) | 1956-1957 |