Buddy Hackett Quotes


You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.


Citations

Nachman, Gerald. Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s. Pantheon Books, 2003.

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Buddy Hackett
Buddy Hackett
  • Born: August 31, 1924
  • Died: June 30, 2003
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Actor, Comedian

Buddy Hackett was an American actor and comedian. His best remembered roles include Marcellus Washburn in The Music Man (1962), Benjy Benjamin in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Tennessee Steinmetz in The Love Bug (1968), and the voice of Scuttle in The Little Mermaid (1989).