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[[File:Buddy Hackett in 1973.JPG|thumb|400px|Buddy Hackett in 1973]]
'''Buddy Hackett''' (August 31, 1924 – June 30, 2003
Hackett lived next door to future baseball player Sandy Koufax. He once served in the U.S. Army during [[World War II]], as well as serving in an anti-aircraft battery.
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Hackett died at his beach house in Malibu, California, on June 30, 2003, due to complications from diabetes, because of his overweight physique. However, his son, Sandy Hackett, has been starring in film and television even after his father's death.
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* ''[[The Music Man]]'': as Marcellus Washburn
* ''[[It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]]'': as Benjy Benjamin
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* ''[[Action]]'': as Uncle Lonny
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* [[Adorkable]]
* [[Big Fun]]
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* [[Fat Idiot]]: A few of his roles fall into this trope.
* [[Large Ham]]
* [[One from Column A and Two from Column B]]: ''Almost'' the [[Trope Namer]], except for [[Memetic Mutation]]. Buddy Hackett had a 1952-vintage [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf1tCQErbzE stand-up routine about a Chinese waiter taking an order from a table full of (non-Chinese) patrons] through which the phrase entered popular usage, even though the phrase in the routine is actually "two from column A, one from column B".
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Was set to appear in the documentary ''[[The Aristocrats]]'' (as was [[Rodney Dangerfield]]), but died before his parts could be filmed.
** He was approached to replace Curly Howard in [[The Three Stooges]] following Curly's stroke, but he declined.
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