1. Victor Charles Buono was an American actor, comic, and briefly a recording artist.
23 Facts About Victor Buono
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Victor Buono was a busy actor from his late teens until his death at the age of 43 and, with his large size and sonorous voice, he made a career of playing men much older than he was.
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Victor Buono started appearing on local radio and television stations, and at age 18 joined the Globe Theater Players in San Diego.
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The director had confidence in Victor Buono and cast him in Volpone, A Midsummer Night's Dream and other Globe presentations.
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Victor Buono received good notices for his various Shakespearean roles and in modern plays such as The Man Who Came to Dinner and Witness for the Prosecution.
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Victor Buono made his first network TV appearance playing the bearded poet Bongo Benny in an episode of 77 Sunset Strip.
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Victor Buono played the recurring role of Count Manzeppi in The Wild Wild West and played unrelated characters in that series' premiere episode and in the second and final Wild Wild West reunion film More Wild Wild West.
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Victor Buono was cast to play villains of various ethnic origins on many television programs between 1960 and 1970.
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Victor Buono was cast twice in 1960 in the western series The Rebel, starring Nick Adams, in the episodes "Blind Marriage" and "The Earl of Durango".
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Victor Buono played the villain King Tut on the television series Batman.
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Victor Buono played a scientist bent on world domination in the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea in "The Cyborg".
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Victor Buono made a guest appearance as Hannibal Day in the Get Smart episode "Moonlighting Becomes You", originally airing January 2,1970, and appeared three times as Dr Blaine in the sitcom Harrigan and Son, starring Pat O'Brien and Roger Perry as a father-and-son team of lawyers.
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Victor Buono appeared in a segment of Night Gallery titled "Satisfaction Guaranteed".
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Victor Buono appeared in an episode of Hawaii Five-O, "The $100,000 Nickel", in which he played the thief Eric Damien.
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Victor Buono made two memorable appearances on The Odd Couple, once in the episode "The Exorcists" and again in "The Rent Strike", where he portrayed Mr Lovelace.
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Victor Buono made nine appearances on the 1977 series Man from Atlantis as the primary antagonist, Mr Schubert.
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Victor Buono began to style himself as "the fat man from Batman".
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Christopher Lloyd, the actor portraying his son, was the same age as Victor Buono, who died before the end of the series.
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In 1980, Victor Buono appeared in the television film Murder Can Hurt You as Chief Ironbottom, a parody of the title character from Ironside.
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Victor Buono appeared on 4 different episodes of the ABC series Vega$ with Robert Urich, playing a sage and yet street-wise Las Vegas casino high roller named 'Diamond Jim'.
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Victor Buono died of a heart attack at his home in Apple Valley, California on New Year's Day 1982.
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Victor Buono is entombed with his mother, Myrtle, in Greenwood Memorial Park in San Diego, but his name is not inscribed on the crypt.
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Victor Buono liked to read and write, and one of his main interests was Shakespeare.