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Known for:	The Little Mermaid, The Music Man, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Birth name:	Leonard Hacker
Birthday:	31 August 1924, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Height:	5' 6" (1.68 m)

Married his wife, Sherry, in 1955. Quit doing appearances in 1996 after he suffered stage fright, including extreme dizziness, for the first time in his career. This event immediately followed gum surgery, which Buddy believes had something to do with the situation. In 1953, gossip columns reported that Universal Pictures wanted to team Buddy Hackett with his friend, popular baritone Alan Dale, as their studio's answer to Paramount's box office sensations, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Nothing came of the idea because Dale preferred to remain a solo act. Hackett, however, did appear in Universal's Walking My Baby Back Home later that year. Father of Sandy Hackett, Ivy Julie, Lisa Jean. Son of Philip Hackett and Anna Geller. In 1952, at the behest of Shemp Howard, Hackett was asked to replace the ailing Curly Howard as a member of The Three Stooges. Hackett initially agreed to the idea, until he saw a Stooges rehearsal and witnessed the boys hitting each other on the head with pipes, wrenches, etc. Hackett backed out of the deal. His real name, Lenny Hacker, was used as the name of a character he played in episode 1.05 ("The Entertainer") of Space Rangers. Served three years in the Army with an antiaircraft unit during World War II. On a furlough in 1945, he returned home and bought a ticket to see the musical "Oklahoma!". He decided on a career in show business following his discharge. Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 201-202. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387 Towards the end of his life, he was raising money for an animal shelter. Although his on-stage humor was not nearly as raw, in retrospect, as many of the young comedians who would succeed him, his frequently ribald performances in nightclubs and in concert came as something of a shock to those who had enjoyed his "cleaned-up" (at the behest of the censors) performances on TV and in films.

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