Bud Abbott - Wikipedia
William Alexander "Bud" Abbott (October 2, 1897 [a] – April 24, 1974) was an American comedian, actor and producer. He was best known as the straight man half of the comedy duo Abbott and Costello .
Bud Abbott - IMDb
Bud Abbott. Actor: Hold That Ghost. Long acknowledged as one of the best "straight men" in the business, Bud Abbott was born William Alexander Abbott in Reading, Pennsylvania to Rae (Fisher) and Harry Abbott, who had both worked for the Barnum and Bailey Circus.
Bud Abbott - Biography - IMDb
Bud Abbott. Actor: Hold That Ghost. Long acknowledged as one of the best "straight men" in the business, Bud Abbott was born William Alexander Abbott in Reading, Pennsylvania to Rae (Fisher) and Harry Abbott, who had both worked for the Barnum and Bailey Circus.
Abbott and Costello - Wikipedia
Abbott and Costello were an American comedy duo composed of comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, whose work in radio, film, and television made them the most popular comedy team of the 1940s and 1950s, and the highest-paid entertainers in …
Bud Abbott, Straight Man To Lou Costello, Is Dead
Apr 25, 1974 · Bud Abbott, the tall, thin, I‐am‐not‐amused straight man who fed Lou Costello the lines and the Situations that got the pair into trouble and laid, their audiences into the aisles with ...
Bud Abbott: Straight to First - Legacy.com
Apr 24, 2014 · Bud Abbott died 40 years ago today, following decades in Hollywood in which he rose from the vaudeville circuit to the heights of film and television – performing as one-half of the iconic ...
The Abbott and Costello Show (TV Series 1952–1957) - IMDb
The Abbott and Costello Show: With Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Sid Fields, Gordon Jones. Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields' boarding house. Lou's girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall.
The Best of Abbott & Costello Live - YouTube
One of the greatest comedy teams of all time, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, appear in a compilation of classic sketches and routines they performed live on The Colgate Comedy Hour from 1951 - 1954.
BUD ABBOTT & LOU COSTELLO – Not all laughs? - Historian Alan Royle
Feb 28, 2015 · When Bud Abbott and Lou became a team in 1936 and hit the vaudeville and burlesque circuits they carried with them over 200 comedic procedures, most of them verbal misunderstandings such as their classic ‘Who’s on First?’ routine. Straight man Abbott took 60% of the money and Costello only 40%, an arrangement that was actually Lou’s idea!
Bud Abbott - Hollywood Walk of Fame
William Alexander “Bud” Abbott was an American actor, producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the straight man of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello. Abbott was born in Asbury Park, New Jersey into a show business family.
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