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Buddy Hackett (August 31, 1924 – June 30,
2003), born Leonard Hacker, was an United
States|American comedian and actor.

Hackett was born in Brooklyn, New York. He
attended Public School 103 and then went on to New
Utrecht High School. While still in high school,
he began appearing in nightclubs, beginning with
the Borscht Belt, the Catskills resorts. He served
three years with an antiaircraft unit during World
War II.

His first job after the war was at the Pink
Elephant, a Brooklyn club. He made appearances in
Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles and Las Vegas,
Nevada|Las Vegas, and the Catskills. He acted on
Broadway in Lunatics and Lovers, where Max Liebman
saw him and put him in two television specials. A
television series, Stanley (television
series)|Stanley, was developed for him, which
helped start Carol Burnett's career. He became
known to a wider audience when he appeared on
television in the 1950s and 1960s as a frequent
guest on such talk shows as Jack Paar and Arthur
Godfrey, telling brash, often off-color jokes, and
mugging widely at the camera. 

He became widely known from his film role in the
box-office success, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad
World. He appeared as Art Carney's replacement on
The Jackie Gleason Show, and in the 1958 film
God's Little Acre. His later career was mostly as
a guest on variety shows and prime time sitcoms. 

In 1978, Hackett surprised many when he gave a
dramatic performance as Lou Costello in the TV
movie Bud And Lou. Harvey Korman played Bud Abbott
in this production. The film told the story of
Abbott and Costello and Hackett's portrayal was
widely praised. He and Korman did a memorable
rendition of the team's famous "Who's On First"
routine. 

His last film performance was reprising the voice
of Scuttle, the goofy little seagull, in The Walt
Disney Company|Disney's The Little Mermaid (1989)
for the direct-to-video sequel The Little Mermaid
II: Return to the Sea in 2000. 
 
For his contribution to the motion picture
industry, Buddy Hackett was given a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Buddy Hackett died in 2003 in Malibu, California
of natural causes.

==Filmography==
*Walking My Baby Back Home (1953)
*Fireman, Save My Child (1954)
*God's Little Acre (1958)
*The Shoes (1961) (short subject)
*All Hands on Deck (1961)
*Everything's Ducky (1961)
*The Music Man (1962)
*The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
*It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
*Muscle Beach Party (1964)
*The Golden Head (1964)
*The Love Bug (1968)
*The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (Cameo)
*Hey Babe! (1980)
*Loose Shoes (1980) (Cameo)
*Scrooged (1988) (Cameo)
*The Little Mermaid (1989) (voice)
*Mouse Soup (1992) (short subject) (voice)
*Paulie (1998)