Buddy Hackett
Also Known As: Leonard Hacker
Biography: Buddy Hackett (August 31, 1924 - June 30, 2003) was an American actor, comedian and singer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: August 31, 1924
Deathday: June 30, 2003
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Gender: Male
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The Little Mermaid
Overview: This colorful adventure tells the story of an impetuous mermaid princess named Ariel who falls in love with the very human Prince Eric and puts everything on the line for the chance to be with him. Memorable songs and characters -- including the villainous sea witch Ursula.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-17
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King of the Pins
Overview: Comedy short about Buddy Hackett as an incompetent bowler.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-13
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The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
Overview: Set several years after the first film, Ariel and Prince Eric are happily married with a daughter, Melody. In order to protect Melody from the Sea Witch, Morgana, they have not told her about her mermaid heritage. Melody is curious and ventures into the sea, where she meets new friends. But will she become a pawn in Morgana's quest to take control of the ocean from King Triton?
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-23
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Overview: A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-07
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Jack Frost
Overview: Pardon-me Pete, the official groundhog of Groundhog Day, tells the story of Jack Frost, who falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begs Father Winter to make him human so that she can see him. His request is granted, but only on the condition that by the Spring he has a house, a bag of gold, a horse and a wife. But Jack finds that life as a human is more complicated than he thought.
Genres: Family Animation Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-13
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Scrooged
Overview: Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-22
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The Music Man
Overview: A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan.
Genres: Comedy Family Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-19
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Saturday Night Swing Club
Overview: Leith Stevens leads his orchestra in a nice assortment of standards in a variety of musical styles, including Dixieland and swing. Mr. Stevens was a popular orchestra leader of the era who later became a musical director for an assortment of television shows and his facility with more than one style of music, so important for his later career, is much in evidence here.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-30
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The Love Bug
Overview: Down-on-his-luck race car driver Jim Douglas teams up with a little VW Bug that has a mind of its own, not realizing Herbie's worth until a sneaky rival plots to steal him.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-23
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Paulie
Overview: Paulie, a talking parrot, recounts his travels looking for his original owner to a Russian janitor who helps him to the end of his journey.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-17
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God's Little Acre
Overview: In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to poverty, marital infidelity, unemployment and booze threaten to destroy their family.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-23
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Loose Shoes
Overview: Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: "The Howard Huge Story", "Skate-boarders from Hell", "The Invasion of the Penis Snatchers", Woody Allen (pre-Mia), movie trailer come-ons, Charlie Chaplin, war movies, Billy Jack. The source of the title is presented about an hour into the film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-01
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The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World
Overview: A celebrity-filled look at the opening festivities for Walt Disney World in Florida.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-29
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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
Overview: An aging lawman and an aging outlaw join forces when their respective positions in society are usurped by a younger, but incompetent Marshal, and a younger, but vicious gang leader.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-10
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All Hands on Deck
Overview: The admiral is coming, so a sailor and his buddy hide their girlfriend and pet turkey.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-30
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Everything's Ducky
Overview: Everything's Ducky is a 1961 film directed by Don Taylor and starring Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, and Jackie Cooper. Two sailors sneak a talking duck aboard their ship. Complications ensue. The duck waddles all over the ship until he escapes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-20
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Walking My Baby Back Home
Overview: A young man from a wealthy New York family pursues a career as the leader of a dance band.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-06
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Bud and Lou
Overview: A fact-riddled behind-the-scenes drama about the stormy partnership of the famed comedy team that came out of burlesque to conquer radio, movies and television.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-15
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Overview: The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write something entertaining amongst the sea of dry, non-fiction books they write and he sets about collecting oral-tradition fairy tales to put into print. Their life story is countered with reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone."
Genres: Fantasy Family Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-07
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It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point
Overview: Worlds collide in this unconventional essay film, when filmmaker, film historian, and archivist Daniel Kremer seamlessly edits Michelangelo Antonioni's legendary but controversial counterculture art film Zabriskie Point (1970) into the same narrative universe as Stanley Kramer's madcap epic comedy extravaganza It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). In creating these new sequences, Kremer comes to recognize that the exercise effortlessly draws cultural and historical parallels in twentieth-century American life that echo in present-day America. The editorial mashups weave a tangled web of social and cinematic history that root our notions of Americana in the mythology of the desert. As Kremer expounds in his narration on these often astonishing and sometimes shocking associations, his very personal ties to the subject matter become manifest.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-08
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Man and Cat
Overview: Man lives with his best friend, Cat, to defend others from big bad.
Genres: Animation Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-08
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Let Me In, I Hear Laughter: A Salute to the Friars Club
Overview: Nostalgic history of the Friars Club. Aired on Cinemax Reel Life
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-26
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The Ultimate Collection Starring Johnny Carson - The Best of the 60s and 70s
Overview: From those early days of black and white with Ed Ames' memorable Tomahawk toss, to Tiny Tim's Technicolor wedding, to Letterman and Leno's stand-up debuts; the first decade of The Tonight Show was filled with once-in-a-lifetime classic TV moments. This volume includes: Pearl Baily, Buddy Hackett, Steve Martin, George Carlin, Flip Wilson, Don Rickles, Dolly Parton and more!
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-13
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The Golden Head
Overview: Stevenson, the famous English criminal expert visits Hungary with his family. While he is chairing a conference on criminology, infamous art treasure robbers steal the golden herm of Saint László. Suspicion is cast on the Stevenson children.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-22
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Hey Babe!
Overview: Theresa is an imaginative, rebellious orphan from Brooklyn, who has dreams of show business success. She tries outrageous schemes to launch herself into the public eye, until finally meeting a mentor, Sammy Cohen, whose own career fizzled as a result of alcoholism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Buddy Hackett: Live and Uncensored
Overview: Stand Up comedy from Buddy Hackett.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-18
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George Burns Celebrates 80 Years in Show Business
Overview: An all-star celebrity tribute to celebrate George Burns 80th Anniversary in show business.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-19
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Once Upon a Tractor
Overview: Alan Bates and Diane Cilento play an odd couple fleeing across fictitious European countries with NYC and the UN as their destination. A short film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-09
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Muscle Beach Party
Overview: Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-25
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Mouse Soup
Overview: A mouse caught by a hungry weasel must think of ways to delay the prospect of becoming lunch. Includes all four stories from the book: 'Bees & the Mud', 'Two Large Stones', 'The Crickets' and 'The Thorn Bush'.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-01
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Fireman Save My Child
Overview: Comedy about the members of an early 1900s fire company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-02
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Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
Overview: A star-studded documentary and tribute to the classic comedy, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Mama Cass Television Program
Overview: "Mama" Cass Elliott of 1960s vocal group The Mamas and the Papas stars in this television variety special, performing comic sketches with Buddy Hackett and other Hollywood stars and singing solo versions of hit songs such as "California Dreamin'." Filmed in 1969 as a pilot for a series that never came to pass, this groovy, fun-filled show also features performances from other '60s music icons: Joni Mitchell, Mary Travers and John Sebastian.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-26
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The Little Mermaid Live!
Overview: Live musical performances by a star-studded cast will be interwoven into the broadcast of the animated classic.
Genres: Family Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-05
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Buddy Hackett II: On Stage At Caesars
Overview: A performance by Buddy Hackett of his adult nightclub act, taped live before an audience at Caesars in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on October 25-26, 1985.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-15
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Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'
Overview: Find out how the spectacular music inspired the animation, and learn more about the development of the characters—such as how Ursula ended up being a big octopus—and how the memorable song "Part of Your World" almost got cut from the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-03
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