Bud Abbott

Highest Rated: 100% Hold That Ghost (1941)

Lowest Rated: 25% Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)

Birthday: Oct 2, 1895

Birthplace: Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA

American comedian Bud Abbott was the tall, bullying member of the popular comedy team Abbott and Costello. The son of circus employees, Abbott entered show business as a burlesque show producer, then took to the stage himself as straight man for a number of comedians, finally teaming with fledgling comic Lou Costello in 1936. After working in burlesque, in radio, and on Broadway, Abbott and Costello made their movie debut in One Night in the Tropics (1940). Their first starring picture was Buck Privates (1941), a box-office bonanza which catapulted the team to "top moneymaker" status for the next 15 years; in all, Abbott and Costello made 36 feature films. In 1951, they made their TV debut on Colgate Comedy Hour, and later that year starred in a widely distributed 52-week, half-hour situation comedy series, The Abbott and Costello Show. After the team broke up in 1957, Abbott retired, but was compelled to revive his career due to income tax problems. He appeared solo in a supporting role on a 1961 G.E. Theatre TV drama, then made an unsuccessful comeback attempt as straight man for comedian Candy Candido. Abbott's last performing job was providing the voice of "himself" in a series of 156 Abbott and Costello animated cartoons produced for television by Hanna-Barbera in 1966.

Highest Rated Movies

Hold That Ghost
100%
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
89%
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
80%
Buck Privates Come Home
80%

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Abbott and Costello in the Movies	Actor	—	2002
No Score Yet	Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (Abbott and Costello in Hollywood )	Actor	—	2000
No Score Yet	World's Greatest Movie Challenge	Actor	—	1989
No Score Yet	Horrible Horror	Actor	—	1987
40%	Into the Night	Chic	—	1985
No Score Yet	The Horror Show	Actor	—	1979
No Score Yet	Dance With Me, Henry!	Bud Flick	—	1956
25%	Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy	Pete Patterson	—	1955
No Score Yet	Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops	Harry 'Slim' Pierce	—	1955
63%	Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Slim	—	1953
33%	Abbott and Costello Go to Mars	Lester	—	1953
No Score Yet	Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd	Rocky Stonebridge	—	1952
No Score Yet	Lost in Alaska	Tom Watson	—	1952
43%	Jack and the Beanstalk	Producer Mr. Dinkel/Mr. Dinkelpuss	—	1952
No Score Yet	Comin' Round the Mountain	Al Stewart	—	1951
80%	Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man	Bud Alexander	—	1951
No Score Yet	Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion	Bud Jones	—	1950
No Score Yet	Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff	Casey Edwards	—	1949
60%	Africa Screams	Buzz Johnson	—	1949
No Score Yet	Mexican Hayride	Harry Lambert	—	1948
89%	Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein	Chick Young	—	1948
No Score Yet	The Noose Hangs High	Ted Higgins	—	1948
No Score Yet	The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap	Duke Egan	—	1947
80%	Buck Privates Come Home	Slicker Smith	—	1947
No Score Yet	Little Giant	Eddie L. Morrison / T.S. Chandler	—	1946
No Score Yet	The Time of Their Lives (The Ghost Steps Out)	Cuthbert, Dr. Greenway	—	1946
No Score Yet	Abbott and Costello in Hollywood	Buzz Curtis	—	1945
No Score Yet	The Naughty Nineties	Dexter Broadhurst	—	1945
No Score Yet	Here Come the Co-eds	Slats McCarthy	—	1945
No Score Yet	Lost in a Harem	Peter Johnson	—	1944
No Score Yet	In Society	Eddie Harrington	—	1944
No Score Yet	Hit the Ice	Flash Fulton	—	1943
No Score Yet	It Ain't Hay	Grover Mockridge	—	1943
No Score Yet	Who Done It?	Chick Larkin / Voice of Himself on Radio	—	1942
No Score Yet	Pardon My Sarong	Algernon 'Algy' Shaw	—	1942
No Score Yet	Rio Rita	Doc	—	1942
No Score Yet	Ride 'em Cowboy	Duke	—	1942
No Score Yet	Keep 'em Flying	Blackie Benson	—	1941
No Score Yet	In the Navy	Smokey Adams	—	1941
No Score Yet	Buck Privates	Slicker Smith	—	1941
100%	Hold That Ghost	Chuck Murray	—	1941
No Score Yet	One Night in the Tropics	Abbott	—	1940
No Score Yet	Abbott And Costello : Sell Thru	Actor	—	1932

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	The Abbott and Costello Show 1951-1952	Himself	2019 1953 1952 1951

Quotes from Bud Abbott's Characters

Dexter Broadhurst:

Who's on first?