Movies: Buddy Hackett

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...

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....

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....

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....

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....

"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'." Fi...

A star-studded documentary and tribute to the classic comedy, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World....

Man lives with his best friend, Cat, to defend others from big bad....

The admiral is coming, so a sailor and his buddy hide their girlfriend and pet turkey....

Comedy about the members of an early 1900s fire company....

Nostalgic history of the Friars Club. Aired on Cinemax Reel Life...

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....

Comedy short about Buddy Hackett as an incompetent bowler....

Stand Up comedy from Buddy Hackett....

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 televisi...