* 1974 – Bud Abbott, American actor and comedian ( b. 1895 )

** Bud Abbott, American actor ( Abbott and Costello ) ( b. 1895 )

The film opens with Larry Talbot ( Lon Chaney, Jr .) making an urgent call from London to a Florida railway station where Chick Young ( Bud Abbott ) and Wilbur Grey ( Lou Costello ) work as baggage-clerks.

* Bud Abbott as Chick Young

In 1923, founding publisher Robert Sengstacke Abbott and editor Lucius Harper created the Bud Billiken Club and later organized parades to promote healthy activity among black children in Chicago.

In The Mouse-Merized Cat, Babbit ( a Bud Abbott mouse ) is briefly hypnotized to imitate Jimmy Durante singing Lullaby of Broadway.

William Alexander " Bud " Abbott ( October 2, 1895 – April 24, 1974 ) was an American actor, producer and comedian.

Bud Abbott dropped out of school as a child and began working in Coney Island.

Norman and Betty Abbott, the children of Bud Abbott's twin sister Olive, embarked on show business careers with help from their uncle.

Bud and Betty Abbott were married for 55 years.

Bud Abbott has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: the radio star is located on 6333 Hollywood Boulevard, the motion pictures star is located on 1611 Vine Street, and the TV star is located on 6740 Hollywood Boulevard.

Louis Francis " Lou " Costello ( March 6, 1906 – March 3, 1959 ) was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott.

While working in vaudeville in the 1930s, Costello became acquainted with a talented straight man named Bud Abbott.

No one in the audience knew of the death until after the show when Bud Abbott explained the events of the day, and how the phrase " The show must go on " had been epitomized by Lou that night.

William " Bud " Abbott and Lou Costello ( born Louis Francis Cristillo ), were an American comedy duo whose work in vaudeville and on stage, radio, film and television made them the most popular comedy team during the 1940s and 1950s.

The sketch was so popular that it was enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame, with a plaque, gold record and transcript of this famous sketch included in the museum collection — although they were not actually inducted into the Hall of Fame — over their less well-known word-play routine " Slaughter the Baseball Player " ( Who's On First full radio broadcast ), where they were looking for to buy a baseball bat and the one available was made for Enos Slaughter, and the more sadistic " Ninth Inning Steal " routine in which Bud and Lou rob an unsuspecting person by distracting him with a sensational baseball game recounting, unaware that someone else has already robbed the intended target using the same distraction.

when bus drivers Bud and Lou try to steal gas from a gas station attendant.

Bud & Lou made 36 films together between 1940 and 1956.

( Writer Parke Levy told Jordan R. Young, in The Laugh Crafters: Comedy Writing in Radio and TV's Golden Age, that he was stunned to learn that Bud and Lou were afraid to perform new material.

Although the new act received good reviews, Bud quit, saying, " No one could ever live up to Lou.

The key to the routine is Lou Costello's unwavering confusion over pronouns and Bud Abbott's unwavering nonchalance.

If they needed to fill four minutes, for example, Bud and Lou would do four minutes ' worth of the baseball bit.

A TV movie called Bud and Lou, based on a book by Hollywood correspondent Bob Thomas, was broadcast in 1978.

Starring Harvey Korman as Bud Abbott and Buddy Hackett as Lou Costello, the film told the duo's life story, focusing on Costello and portraying him as volatile and petty.

And Bud was the second banana, as far as Lou was concerned.

Other musicians who contributed prominently to the hard bop style include Cannonball Adderley, Donald Byrd, Sonny Clark, Lou Donaldson, Kenny Drew, Benny Golson, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean, Blue Mitchell, Hank Mobley, Thelonious Monk, Lee Morgan, Carl Perkins ( pianist ), Bud Powell, Sonny Rollins, and Sonny Stitt.

In 1978, Hackett surprised many with his dramatic performance as Lou Costello in the television movie Bud and Lou opposite Harvey Korman as Bud Abbott.

* Bud and Lou ( 1978 ) ( TV Movie )

The musicians involved in these albums-and at Condon's club-included Wild Bill Davison, Bobby Hackett ( cornet ), Billy Butterfield ( trumpet ), Edmond Hall, Peanuts Hucko, Pee Wee Russell, Bob Wilber ( clarinet ), Cutty Cutshall, Lou McGarity, George Brunies ( trombone ), Bud Freeman ( tenor sax ), Gene Schroeder, Dick Cary, Ralph Sutton ( piano ), Bob Casey, Walter Page, Jack Lesberg, Al Hall ( bass ), George Wettling, Buzzy Drootin, Cliff Leeman ( drums ).

In 1966 Bud voiced his character in a series of 156 five-minute Abbott and Costello cartoons made by Hanna-Barbera.

Abbott's wife recalled Bud performing the routine with another comedian before teaming with Costello.

Africa Screams was first released in 1949 and stars Bud Abbott and Lou Costello

* William Alexander Abbott ( 1895 – 1974 ), birth name of American vaudeville and film actor Bud Abbott, of Abbott and Costello

However there may be some exaggeration involved-studio logs indicate during the filming of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein ( 1948 ) the entire crew, including Chaney took a two hour break during the filming of a transformation and filmed the rest of the scene later that day ( though the makeup for Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein had been greatly redesigned and streamlined by Bud Westmore over the original Jack Pierce makeup ).

Candido provided the voice of a skeleton in Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, and he later teamed with Bud Abbott during Abbott's attempted comeback in 1960.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man ( also known as Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man ( full screen title )) is a 1951 comedy horror film directed by Charles Lamont and starring the team of Abbott and Costello alongside Nancy Guild.

Insurance concerns prevented McQueen from performing the film's widely noted motorcycle leap, which was instead done by his friend and fellow cycle enthusiast Bud Ekins, who resembled McQueen from a distance.

* The recently-built George E. Day Parkway is named for Colonel George E. " Bud " Day, a F-100 Super Sabre pilot who is the only known American POW to escape into South Vietnam, although he was later recaptured and sent to the Hanoi Hilton.

Occasionally, Jeter was able to stay away from these types of roles for more diverse characters like those he portrayed in Jurassic Park III ( where he was killed by a dinosaur ), Air Bud and Open Range, although his character in The Green Mile could easily be described as both eccentric and wimpy.

He finessed thick and rich chords in the lower bass register ; although sometimes compared to Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk for his dissonant voicing, his emphasis on weight, texture and frequent repetition of a single and simple motif as opposed to linear and melodic improvisation gave a heavy and melancholic color to his sound.

This was officially the first World Series that Bud Selig presided as Commissioner of Baseball, although he had presided over the Commissioner's Trophy presentation at the end of the and 1997 World Series.

Since 1999, the Professional Bull Riders ( PBR ) has hosted a Built Ford Tough Series ( originally Bud Light Cup ) event at the Idaho Center in what has been a major stop of the tour ( although they did not visit the Idaho Center in 2011 ).

A thief ( Bud Jamison ) steals in during the night and robs the singing drunk, and although Charlie takes what he thinks are adequate precautions, he is robbed also.