Victor Buono
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Victor Charles Buono February 3, 1938 San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Died | January 1, 1982 (aged 43) Apple Valley, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Heart attack |
| Occupation | Actor, comic |
| Years active | 1959–1981 |
Victor Charles Buono (February 3, 1938 – January 1, 1982) was an American actor and comic and briefly a recording artist. He was most famous for playing the villain King Tut on the television series Batman (1966-1968) and musician Edwin Flagg in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), the latter of which earned him Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations. He was a busy actor from his late teens until his death at age 43, and with his large size and sonorous voice, he made a career of playing men much older than himself.
Buono was born in San Diego, California, the son of Myrtle Belle (née Keller; 1909–1979) and Victor Francis Buono (1907–1981). His maternal grandmother, Myrtle Glied (1886–1969), was a Vaudeville performer on the Orpheum Circuit. When he was a boy, she taught him songs and recitations and encouraged him to perform for visitors. Even though the young Buono enjoyed the polite applause of those captive audiences, he aspired to be a doctor. When he was sixteen, Father John Aherne, OSA, of St. Augustine High School in San Diego cast him as Papa Barrett in the play The Barretts of Wimpole Street. Buono appeared in three plays a year during high school, including Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp and Shakespearean dramas such as the play Hamlet. Buono played the role of King Claudius.
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