Career Buddy Hackett

1 career

1.1 career
1.2 stanley
1.3 later career

career
early career

hackett s first job after war @ pink elephant, brooklyn club. here changed name leonard hacker buddy hackett. made appearances in los angeles , las vegas, , continued perform in catskills. acted on broadway, in lunatics , lovers, max liebman saw him , put him in 2 television specials.

hackett s movie career began in 1950 10-minute world of sports reel columbia pictures called king of pins. film demonstrated championship bowling techniques, expert joe wilman demonstrating right way , hackett (in pantomime) exemplifying wrong way. hackett not return movies until 1953, after 1 of nightclub routines attracted attention. rubber band around head slant eyes, hackett s chinese waiter lampooned heavy dialect, frustration, , communication problems encountered busy waiter in chinese restaurant: no, no have sprit-pea soup ... gotta wonton, got eh-roll ... no orda her, juss orda you! routine such hit hackett made recording of it, , hired reprise in universal-international musical walking baby home (1953), in third-billed under donald o connor , janet leigh.

hackett emergency replacement built lou costello in 1954. abbott , costello set make feature-length comedy fireman, save child, featuring spike jones , city slickers. several scenes had been shot stunt doubles when lou costello forced withdraw due illness. universal-international salvaged project hiring hugh o brian , hackett take on abbott , costello roles, using shot footage of comedy duo in long shots; jones , band became main attraction.

hackett became known wider audience when appeared on television in 1950s , 60s frequent guest on variety talk shows hosted jack paar , arthur godfrey, telling brash, off-color jokes, , mugging @ camera. hackett frequent guest on both jack paar , johnny carson versions of tonight show. according board game trivial pursuit, hackett has distinction of making guest appearances in history of tonight show starring johnny carson. during time, appeared panelist , mystery guest on cbs-tv s s line? , filled in emcee game show treasure hunt. made fifteen guest appearances on nbc-tv s perry como show between 1955 , 1961.

stanley

hackett starred title character on nbc-tv s stanley, 1956–57 situation comedy ran 19 weeks on monday evenings @ 8:30 pm est. half-hour series featured young carol burnett , voice of paul lynde. max liebman produced program aired live before studio audience , 1 of last sitcoms new york so. stanley revolved around adventures of titular character (hackett) operator of newsstand in posh new york city hotel. on september 30, 1960, appeared himself in episode of nbc s short-lived crime drama dan raven, starring skip homeier, set on sunset strip of west hollywood.

after starring on broadway in had ball, hackett appeared opposite robert preston in film adaptation of music man (1962). in s mad, mad, mad, mad world (1963), hackett paired mickey rooney, whom had made s ducky (1961), in played 2 sailors smuggle talking duck aboard navy ship. children became familiar him lovable hippie auto mechanic tennessee steinmetz in disney s love bug (1969).

he appeared many times on game show hollywood squares in late 1960s. in 1 episode, hackett asked country highest ratio of doctors populace; answered israel, or in words, country jews. despite audience roaring laughter (and hackett s own belief actual answer sweden), answer turned out correct. hackett s regular guest shots on jack paar s tonight show in 1960s rewarded coveted appearance on paar s final tonight program on march 29, 1962.

later career

hackett in 1973

hackett continued appear on johnny carson s tonight show until carson left series in 1992.

in 1978, hackett surprised many dramatic performance lou costello in television movie bud , lou opposite harvey korman bud abbott. film told story of abbott , costello, , hackett s portrayal praised. , korman did memorable rendition of team s famous s on first? routine.

in 1979, hackett voice of groundhog pardon me pete , , narrator of rankin/bass christmas special jack frost (1979). starred in 1980 film hey babe!. same year, hosted syndicated revival of 1950–61 groucho marx quiz show bet life lasted 1 year.

throughout 1970s hackett appeared regularly in tv ads tuscan dairy popsicles , yogurt. famous television campaign lay s potato chips ( nobody can eat one! ) ran 1968 1971; hackett had succeeded bert lahr lay s spokesman. guest-starred in space rangers episode, or not , has-been comedian lenny hacker, parody of stage persona. character s name hackett s own real name.