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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Chick

(1948)

Rio Rita 'Doc'

(1942)

The Naughty Nineties Dexter Broadhurst

(1945)

Hold That Ghost Chuck Murray

(1941)

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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 Bud Abbott Lou 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)
Self

- Episode #3.66 (1962) ... Self

1956 This Is Your Life (TV Series)
Self

- Lou Costello (1956) ... Self

1956 Unit One (TV Series)
Self

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

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

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

1955-1956 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series)
Self

- 8th Anniversary Show (1956) ... Self

- Episode #9.11 (1955) ... Self

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1952 News of the Day (Documentary short)
Self

1952 Olympic Fund Telethon (TV Special)
Self

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

1944 Mail Call (Short)
Self (uncredited)

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

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

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

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Archive footage (61 credits)

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

- Watters' World (2014) ... Self

- 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)
Self

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

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)
Self

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

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

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

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

2007 Close-up (TV Series documentary)
Self

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

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

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)
Self

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)
Self

1999 ABC 2000: The Millennium (TV Movie documentary)

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

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

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

1997 American Masters (TV Series documentary)
Self

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

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

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

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

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

1994 Television's Christmas Classics (TV Special)
Self

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)
Self

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

1988 Entertaining the Troops (Documentary)
Self

1986 Classic Comedy Teams (Video documentary)
Self

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 Young (in 'Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein') (uncredited)

1983 Skip E. Lowe Looks at Hollywood (TV Series documentary)

- Robert Walker Jr./Michelle Walker/Chris Costello (1983)

1983 Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (Documentary)
Self (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)
Self

1976 Bob Hope's World of Comedy (TV Special)
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 documentary)
Self

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

1960 Project Twenty (TV Series documentary)
Self - Comedian

- Not So Long Ago (1960) ... Self - 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)
Self

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)
Self

1944 Twenty Years After (Short)

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

Personal Details

Other Works:

Stage: Produced "Broadway Flashes", a touring vaudeville show. See more »

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

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Daniel Simkins / Chris Costello (daughter)

Alternate Names:

Abbott | Abbott & Costello | Abbott and Costello

Height:

5' 8" (1.73 m)

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That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody. See more »

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He and his professional partner, Lou Costello, were elected into the 2008 New Jersey Hall of Fame for their services to arts and entertainment. See more »

Trademark:

Deep voice See more »

Star Sign:

Libra

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