He appeared first at the Golden Hotel in Hurleyville, New York, and he claimed he did not get one single laugh. While still a student, he began performing in nightclubs, in the Catskills Borshct Belt resorts as Butch Hacker. He graduated from New Utrecht High School in 1942. Living next door was aspiring baseball player Sandy Koufax. He grew up on 54th and 14th Ave in Borough Park, Brooklyn, across from Public School 103 (new a yeshiva). Doing so, he moved on to Los Angeles, where he scored at a small showcase club.īesides his son, Hackett is survived by his wife, Sherry, whom he met in the Catskills, and daughters Ivy Miller of Denver and Lisa Hackett of Los Angeles.Īssociated Press Writer Laura Wides contributed to this story.Hackett was born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, the son of a Jewish upholsterer. Hackett had flopped using joke writers, and he soon came to realize that only he could write for Buddy Hackett.
When he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame a few years ago, Hackett quipped that he had left Brooklyn ``to get away from the subway″ only to discover that his star had been placed above the one in Los Angeles.Īfter graduating from high school, he spent three years in the military during World War II, then reinvented himself as Buddy Hackett, standup comedian. He used humor to offset the taunts about his roly-poly shape.
For a time he apprenticed in his father’s upholstery shop, but at school he found he had a talent for making fellow students laugh. He was born Leonard Hacker in a Jewish section of New York City’s borough of Brooklyn on Aug.
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On television, he starred in the short-lived series ``Stanley″ from 1956 to 1957 and made numerous guest appearances on other shows, appearing in recent years on ``Just Shoot Me″ and ``Sabrina The Teenage Witch″ and, in a recurring bit called ``Tuesdays With Buddy,″ on ``The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn.″ He played comic Lou Costello in the 1978 film ``Bud and Lou.″ Hackett made his film debut in 1953 with ``Walking My Baby Back Home.″ His most notable roles came in ``The Music Man,″ ``The Love Bug″ and ``It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.″Īmong his other movies: ``Fireman Save My Child,″ ``God’s Little Acre,″ ``All Hands on Deck,″ ``The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm,″ ``Muscle Beach Party,″ ``Loose Shoes,″ ``Scrooged″ and Disney’s ``The Little Mermaid,″ as the voice of Scuttle. He also appeared on the New York stage in ``Viva Madison Avenue″ (1960) and ``I Had a Ball″ (1964).
In 1954, playwright Sidney Kingsley persuaded Hackett to appear on Broadway in ``Lunatics and Lovers.″ Brooks Atkinson, writing in The New York Times, described Hackett as ``a large, soft, messy comic with a glib tongue and a pair of inquiring eyes.″ ``Compared to motion pictures, I’m very mild these days,″ he remarked in 1996. In the beginning, his material was suitable for family audiences, but in later years nightclubs advertised his show ``For Mature Audiences Only.″ His performances in those days were noted for their prolific use of four-letters words at a time when that just wasn’t done. Soon he was making big money across the country, and audiences called for his most noted routine, the Chinese waiter.
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His career grew with appearances on the TV shows of Jack Paar, Arthur Godfrey and others. When ``Curly″ Howard, the one who got slapped in the comedy team The Three Stooges, suffered a stroke in 1946, Hackett was invited to take his place but declined, believing he could develop his own comedy style. Hackett began his career playing for small money on the Borscht Circuit for New York City vacationers in the Catskill Mountains, he learned to get laughs with his complaints about being short, fat and Jewish. The cause of death was not immediately known, but his son said Hackett suffered from diabetes.
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