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Buddy Hackett
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Actor Born: August 31, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY Death: June 29, 2003 Biography:The son of a Brooklyn upholsterer, baby-faced comic actor Buddy Hackett always claimed he was "born to be funny." Hackett was the boy who invariably blew his lines in the Holiday pageants and the overweight teen who accidentally stuck his foot in a water bucket during his first game with the high school football team. It was while serving in the Army that Hackett met the double-talking Chinese waiter who inspired him to create the most famous of his early nightclub routines. Hackett's first stand-up gig in Brooklyn led to additional work on the New York supper club Catskill resort circuits; he also guested on a very early (1945) TV program, "Laff Time". His film debut was as the voice of a talking camel in the otherwise straightforward Arabian nights programmer "Slave Girl" (1947). He was signed to a Universal Pictures contract in 1953, then starred for two years in Broadway comedy "Lunatics and... Full Biography
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