Comedian, actor, author and composer, educated at New Utrecht High School and a member of ASCAP since 1936. He appeared in the Broadway musicals Lunatics and Lovers and I Had a Ball, and he composed the music for his Chinese-waiter comedy recording Chinese Rock and Egg Roll. By: Hup234! Brooklyn-born Buddy Hackett was known mainly as a nightclub comic, especially in Las Vegas, where he first performed in 1952 and wound up being one of the biggest headliners in that city's history. H ...[Read Story]