Bud Abbott

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Known For

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Chick

(1948)

Rio Rita 'Doc'

(1942)

Hold That Ghost Chuck Murray

(1941)

In the Navy Smokey Adams

(1941)

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Filmography

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Actor (42 credits)

1989 Abbott & Costello: Live & Hilarious! (Video)

1967 Abbott & Costello (TV Series)
Abbott (voice)

1961 General Electric Theater (TV Series)
Ernie Kauffman

- The Joke's on Me (1961) ... Ernie Kauffman

1956 Dance with Me, Henry
Bud Flick

1955 Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Pete Patterson

1955 Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Harry 'Slim' Pierce

1954 Fireman Save My Child
Man in Long Shots (uncredited)

1952-1954 The Abbott and Costello Show (TV Series)
Bud Abbott

- Barber Lou (1954) ... Bud Abbott

- Fall Guy (1954) ... Bud Abbott

- Beauty Contest (1954) ... Bud Abbott

- Fencing Master (1954) ... Bud Abbott

- Honeymoon House (1954) ... Bud Abbott

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1953 Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Slim

1953 Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
Lester

1952 Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
Rocky Stonebridge

1952 Lost in Alaska
Tom Watson

1952 Jack and the Beanstalk
Mr. Dinkel / Mr. Dinkelpuss (as Abbott)

1951 Comin' Round the Mountain
Al Stewart

1951 Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Bud Alexander

1950 Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
Bud Jones

1949 Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Casey Edwards

1949 Africa Screams
Buzz Johnson

1948 Mexican Hayride
Harry Lambert

1948 10,000 Kids and a Cop (Short documentary)
Bud Abbott

1948 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Chick

1948 The Noose Hangs High
Ted Higgins

1947 The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Duke Egan

1947 Buck Privates Come Home
Corporal Slicker Smith

1946 The Time of Their Lives
Cuthbert Greenway / Dr. Ralph Greenway

1946 Little Giant
Eddie L. Morrison / T.S. Chandler

1945 Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Buzz Kurtis

1945 The Naughty Nineties
Dexter Broadhurst

1945 Here Come the Co-eds
Slats McCarthy

1944 Lost in a Harem
Peter Johnson

1944 In Society
Eddie Harrington

1943 Hit the Ice
Flash Fulton

1943 It Ain't Hay
Grover Mockridge

1942 Who Done It?
Chick Larkin / Voice of Himself on Radio

1942 Pardon My Sarong
Algy Shaw

1942 Rio Rita
'Doc'

1942 Ride 'Em Cowboy
Duke

1941 Keep 'Em Flying
Blackie Benson

1941 Hold That Ghost
Chuck Murray

1941 In the Navy
Smokey Adams

1941 Buck Privates
Slicker Smith

1940 One Night in the Tropics
Abbott

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Soundtrack (3 credits)

1952 Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (performer: "Tonight We Sail" - uncredited)

1952 Jack and the Beanstalk (performer: "Jack and the Beanstalk", "He Never Looked Better In His Life")

1945 The Naughty Nineties (performer: "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" (1908) - uncredited)

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Self (13 credits)

1962 Here's Hollywood (TV Series)
Himself

- Episode #3.66 (1962) ... Himself

1956 This Is Your Life (TV Series)
Himself

- Lou Costello (1956) ... Himself

1956 Unit One (TV Series)
Himself

- Episode dated 26 October 1956 (1956) ... Himself

1956 The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (TV Series)
Himself - "Who's On First?"

- Abbott & Costello/Kukla, Fran & Ollie/Mickey Mantle/Lionel Hampton/Peggy King/Milt Kamen (1956) ... Himself - "Who's On First?"

1955 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series)
Himself

- Episode #9.11 (1955) ... Himself

1951-1955 The Colgate Comedy Hour (TV Series)
Himself - Host / Himself - Comic Actor / Himself - Comedian / ...

- Episode #5.27 (1955) ... Himself - Comic Actor (as Abbott and Costello)

- Episode #5.20 (1955) ... Himself - Comedian (as Abbott & Costello)

- Episode #4.33 (1954) ... Himself - Host

- Episode #4.28 (1954) ... Himself - Host

- Episode #4.25 (1954) ... Himself - Host

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1952 News of the Day (Documentary short)
Himself

1952 Olympic Fund Telethon (TV Special)
Himself

1949 Screen Snapshots: Motion Picture Mothers, Inc. (Short)
Himself

1944 Mail Call (Short)
Himself (uncredited)

1942 Picture People No. 10: Hollywood at Home (Documentary short)
Himself

1942 Picture People Vol. 2 No. 6: Hollywood War Efforts (Short)
Himself

1941 Meet the Stars #4: Variety Reel #2 (Documentary short)
Himself

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Archive footage (60 credits)

2008-2014 The O'Reilly Factor (TV Series)
Himself / Chick Young

- Watters' World (2014) ... Himself

- Episode dated 29 April 2008 (2008) ... Chick Young

2011 Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (TV Series documentary)
Chick

- Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (2011) ... Chick

2011 Reagan (Documentary)
Himself

2011 Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes (TV Movie documentary)
Himself

2010 A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss (TV Mini-Series documentary)
Chick Young

- Frankenstein Goes to Hollywood (2010) ... Chick Young (uncredited)

2010 Behind the Burly Q (Documentary)
Himself

2009 Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America (TV Series documentary)
Himself

- Sock it to Me?: Satire and Parody (2009) ... Himself

2009 Morecambe and Wise: The Show What Paul Merton Did (TV Movie documentary)
Himself (uncredited)

2008 Shemp Cocktail: A Toast to the Original Stooge (Video documentary)
Himself

2007 Close-up (TV Series documentary)
Himself

- Bela Lugosi: Dracula's Dubbelganger (2007) ... Himself

2007 Elvis Presley: Hot Shots and Cool Clips Volume 3 (Video documentary)
Himself

2006 The Story of Light Entertainment (TV Mini-Series documentary)

- Double Acts (2006) ... (as Abbott and Costello)

2005 The Great Man: W.C. Fields (Video documentary)
Himself

2004 Back to the 1950s (Video documentary)

2002 The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster (Video documentary)
Bud (uncredited)

2001 John Landis on an American Werewolf in London (Video short)
Himself

1999 ABC 2000: The Millennium (TV Special documentary)

1999 Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed (Video documentary short)
Peter

1999 The Century: America's Time (TV Mini-Series documentary)
Himself - selling war bonds

- Homefront: 1941-1945 (1999) ... Himself - selling war bonds

1997 American Masters (TV Series documentary)
Himself

- Vaudeville (1997) ... Himself (as Abbott & Costello)

1996 Bob Hope: Hollywood's Brightest Star (Video documentary)
Himself

1994-1996 Biography (TV Series documentary)
Himself / Various

- Bud Abbott & Lou Costello: Abbott & Costello Meet Biography (1996) ... Himself

- Stooges: The Men Behind the Mayhem (1994) ... Various (uncredited)

1994 Television's Christmas Classics (TV Special)
Himself

1994 Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld (TV Movie documentary)

1994 It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein (TV Movie documentary)

1992 Legends of Comedy (TV Movie documentary)

1991 Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook (Documentary)
Chick Young / Slim

1991 When It Was a Game (TV Movie documentary)
Himself

1990 The Three Stooges 60th Anniversary Special (TV Movie documentary)

1988 Entertaining the Troops (Documentary)
Himself

1986 Classic Comedy Teams (Video documentary)
Himself

1986 Horrible Horror (Video)
Chick, In clips from 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein'

1985 Into the Night
Chick Young in 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein'

1984 Terror in the Aisles (Documentary)
Chick (in 'Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein') (uncredited)

1983 Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (Documentary)
Himself (uncredited)

1982 Showbiz Goes to War (TV Movie documentary)

1982 Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (TV Movie documentary)
Actor - 'In Society' (uncredited)

1979 The Hollywood Clowns (Video documentary)

1979 The Horror Show (TV Movie documentary)

1978 Hey, Abbott!

1978 Funny Business (TV Movie documentary)
Himself

1976 Bob Hope's World of Comedy (TV Movie)
Tribute Montage

1976 That's Entertainment, Part II (Documentary)
Clips from 'Rio Rita' (as Abbott)

1965 Wayne and Shuster Take an Affectionate Look At... (TV Series documentary)

- The Westerns (1965)

1965 The World of Abbott and Costello
Character in Film Clips

1964 The Big Parade of Comedy (Documentary)
Doc in 'Rio Rita'

1963 Hollywood and the Stars (TV Series)
Himself

- The Funny Men: Part 2 (1963) ... Himself

1960 Project XX (TV Series documentary)
Himself - Comedian

- Not So Long Ago (1960) ... Himself - Comedian

1954 Champs of the Chase (Short)
Eddie

1954 Oh, My Achin' Tooth! (Short)
Bud

1954 Screen Snapshots Series 33, No. 10: Hollywood Grows Up (Documentary short)
Film Clips Character

1953 Gobs in a Mess (Short)
Smokey

1952 Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians (Documentary short)
Himself

1951 Knights of the Bath (Short)
Eddie

1949 Fun on the Run (Short)
Slats [Bud, in silent versions]

1949 Kitchen Mechanics (Short)
Slats [Bud, in silent versions]

1948 Oysters and Muscles (Short)
Slats [Bud, in silent versions]

1946 Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 8: Looking Back (Short)
Himself

1944 Twenty Years After (Short)

1943 The Autobiography of a 'Jeep' (Documentary short)
Himself - in a Jeep in Parade (uncredited)

Personal Details

Other Works:

Appeared as a special guest (not a panelist) on an episode of the NBC daytime game show It Takes Two (1968) hosted by Vin Scully (sometime in 1969 or 1970), reminiscing about his career with Lou Costello. See more »

Publicity Listings:

3 Biographical Movies | 6 Print Biographies | 5 Portrayals | 5 Articles | See more »

Official Sites:

Daniel Simkins / Chris Costello (daughter)

Alternate Names:

Abbott | Abbott & Costello | Abbott and Costello

Height:

5' 8" (1.73 m)

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Personal Quote:

[Speaking after his professional break-up with partner Lou Costello] I never understood Lou. See more »

Trivia:

Bud's twin sister Olive confirmed in an interview conducted by Chris Costello for the latter's book "Lou's on First" that she and her brother were actually born in Reading, Pennsylvania, only moving to Asbury Park at the age of 2 or 3. See more »

Trademark:

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Star Sign:

Libra

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