A Versatile, Multi Talented Man was Victor Buono. Sad to realize he’d pass away to the day, 7 years later on New Year’s Day 1982 at the young age of 43. It’s been 37 years since then, and You’re Still Missed. Good Night, Dear Man. Eternal Rest Be Yours.
I remember him as one of the mutant humans on Beneath The Planet of The Apes film. They were an interesting bunch, even though they came off as a crazy cult and tortured the heroes.
From what I've heard and read about Victor Buono, while on the set of Batman in which he played the villan King Tut, he was so nice and friendly and funny behind the scene.very kind hearted.It's sad that we would lose him seven years later after this Tonight show appearence.
I first 'met' him in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford really fought for quality supporting roles to help their own performances. He was irreplaceable in that film.
Couldn't agree more! He was so handsome, talented and, from everything I've read and have been told, I know he was a truly wonderful and kind human being too.
A brilliant actor who could do comedy and drama with equal ease and skill. Distinctive voice, and outside of playing King Tut--and he was brilliant--I'll always remember him as the Captain in Who's Minding The Mint, going down with his ship. Sad loss to the acting community--and to the world--when he passed away.
It's crazy how three entertainers that were famous back in the 60's could have played brothers in a film. Look up Al Hirt, Burl Ives, then look at Victor Buono! Similar faces, very tall, and very heavy men.
Victor would literally start his stage shows with a bit about him not being Al Hirt or Sebastian Cabot and that his name is Buono and not Bruno, Bono, Bueno or Bongo.
A victim of the time he was born but then again, not. My brother in law went to high school with him. I am 21 years younger than my brother in law and saw Victor a couple years before he died. He was driving a car after leaving Balboa Park, where the Old Globe is located. I was walking and we made eye contact. He was a closeted man and I found his look uncomfortable. He was a genius and talented man whose sexuality really means nothing. God’s speed and rest to this poor soul who died at 43.
nah, he had a baby face and never aged. we're just conditioned to read baldness and gray hair, especially on actors, as them being ancient. also he wore his beard and hair like that at this point for age on purpose. That was his job after all as character actor. And luckily he wasn't as vain as many of his colleagues to wear hair pieces or dye them.
Carson isn't exactly subtle about his weight saying "You'd never play Romeo as it would take a year for the poison to get through your system", but he does own it afterwards saying he'd need a buiq and drag for Juliet. Leave the guy alone for goodness sake.
Yes! I remember seeing him on Batman and The Wild Wild West when I was little, then seeing those again in reruns as I got older, and I had *no* idea he was so young when he did them.
Victor Buono was a great actor but he wrestled with a lot of demons in his life - his weight, the fact that he was a gay actor in a time when gay actors had to keep their sexuality a secret or their careers would be ruined
He was 37, but still! He was already playing much older roles when he was 21, in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte he was 26 and playing a 60-something character......Yet look at guys like Ian Somerhalder who are in their 40s, or Paul Rudd and Tom Cruise who are over 50!
Could they have found a smaller chair for this guy to sit in? Who was in charge of the sets on this program? I hope they didn’t earn more than minimum wage
Well, he was a male who died long before Roe was overturned by extremists and women started dying from miscarriages, so his opinion on that is irrelevant.
@@anneahlert2997 ....just as the aborted baby is irrelevant, I assume...??? One of the "talents" of the Nazis was deciding who was human and who was not....those that weren't were..well...eliminated...It's just too damned hard to keep your knickers on, isn't it????
Honestly, if you can't recall what poem YOU may have recited or when, then it's unlikely that anyone else would either. Unless you meant one that Mr. Buono recited, but that's not entirely clear in your comment.
well, he started balding in his mid twenties and getting gray in his early thirties. which was genetic and happened to his dad and brother too. and then he had always a mature demeanor and then that magnificent voice. makes him seem older at first glance in general. but then it was also his career to olay much older than he was so for example the beard he wore for age. He once said in reference to his baby face: "My face is like a blue eyed omelette, a picture of total Innocence. Which is terribly bad in my line of work." There are other appearances from that year where he seems much younger. He was a character actor after all and loved to chance his looks up gor the fun of it.
Not really, he's most likely at the same weight he was when doing Baby Jane. He actually lost 80 pounds for Baby Jane, afterwards he got pretty heavy again with lots of ups and down and slimmed drastically down in 1971 and kept most of it off until 1979.
if that's you in your icon you shouldn't talk. he always looked a hundred times better and youthful than you blobfish with frosted tips. 😂 if you're in the glass house and all that...
Victor was a legend, a powerful presence on the screen whenever he came on the scene.
A Versatile, Multi Talented Man was Victor Buono. Sad to realize he’d pass away to the day, 7 years later on New Year’s Day 1982 at the young age of 43. It’s been 37 years since then, and You’re Still Missed. Good Night, Dear Man. Eternal Rest Be Yours.
Amen.🙏😓🙏
I loved to hear him speak... He had an amazing voice !!!!
One of my two favorite villians on Wild, Wild West and one of many on Batman. Thanks for the wonderful times and Thank you for the memories...RIP
I remember him as one of the mutant humans on Beneath The Planet of The Apes film. They were an interesting bunch, even though they came off as a crazy cult and tortured the heroes.
A charming, funny and very talented man.
The late extremely great Victor Bueno. One of a kind truly.
From what I've heard and read about Victor Buono, while on the set of Batman in which he played the villan King Tut, he was so nice and friendly and funny behind the scene.very kind hearted.It's sad that we would lose him seven years later after this Tonight show appearence.
Now THAT is talent.
Very true. Both Buono and Foster Brooks were sooooo talented and charming
Wow, I was 15 when this happened.
I first 'met' him in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford really fought for quality supporting roles to help their own performances. He was irreplaceable in that film.
In 1964, age 26, he played Sam Hollis, Charlotte’s father in Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte.
Amazing talent! And those aquamarine eyes!
Classic comedy. Sad story of Victor's tragic ending. Such a loss...
I thought he was handsome. A really good looking man and exceptionally talented!
Couldn't agree more! He was so handsome, talented and, from everything I've read and have been told, I know he was a truly wonderful and kind human being too.
Yes he certainly was.
A brilliant actor who could do comedy and drama with equal ease and skill. Distinctive voice, and outside of playing King Tut--and he was brilliant--I'll always remember him as the Captain in Who's Minding The Mint, going down with his ship.
Sad loss to the acting community--and to the world--when he passed away.
A great talent gone far too young...it blew my mind when I found out he was only 28 when he played King Tut on "Batman"
What a wonderful actor...RIP!
Holy, “Walk like and Egyptian” Batman!
It's crazy how three entertainers that were famous back in the 60's could have played brothers in a film. Look up Al Hirt, Burl Ives, then look at Victor Buono! Similar faces, very tall, and very heavy men.
Victor would literally start his stage shows with a bit about him not being Al Hirt or Sebastian Cabot and that his name is Buono and not Bruno, Bono, Bueno or Bongo.
I had heard the theatre phrase of "Break a Leg" came from John Wilkes Booth, who broke his leg jumping onto the stage after shooting Lincoln.
Here in 2024 after watching him on Perry Mason!
Sad that he died so young. I was not aware.
Just a couple of days after New Year's Day. Tragic.
@@vividwatch47 January 1, 1982
Phenomenal Actor!!
i remember him in batman tv show in the 60s what an actor
He played a villain on Perry Mason and the Wild Wild West
Handsome man with beautiful eyes
King Tut from Batman.
A victim of the time he was born but then again, not. My brother in law went to high school with him. I am 21 years younger than my brother in law and saw Victor a couple years before he died. He was driving a car after leaving Balboa Park, where the Old Globe is located. I was walking and we made eye contact. He was a closeted man and I found his look uncomfortable. He was a genius and talented man whose sexuality really means nothing. God’s speed and rest to this poor soul who died at 43.
What does that even mean?
If he was alive now Victor Buono could be free with his homosexuality. ❤🏳️🌈❤
Great screen presence, but he always looked twenty years older than he actually was
nah, he had a baby face and never aged. we're just conditioned to read baldness and gray hair, especially on actors, as them being ancient. also he wore his beard and hair like that at this point for age on purpose. That was his job after all as character actor. And luckily he wasn't as vain as many of his colleagues to wear hair pieces or dye them.
I agree. He's 37 here but looks much older.
He played the Dad to Jim ob the series Taxi. I've read that both Jim and Christopher were actually similar in age
Carson isn't exactly subtle about his weight saying "You'd never play Romeo as it would take a year for the poison to get through your system", but he does own it afterwards saying he'd need a buiq and drag for Juliet. Leave the guy alone for goodness sake.
Noticed that, thought it was a rude remark but Buono so quick witted he came back with a hilarious line and broke Carson up
And to think he was ounce an eminent professor at Yale University.
Well, that was before he was conked in the head and became a super-villain.
I haven't checked wiki but I doubt he taught at Yale.
@Robert Telarket It's a joke based on the back story of his King Tut character.
The Count Carlos Mario Vincenzo Robespierre Manzeppi.
Mr West enjoy RIP Robert Conrad
That was one of the problems with WWW count manzeppi should have done three or four additional appearances
Easily taken for a man 20-30 years older than he was here at 37.
Yes! I remember seeing him on Batman and The Wild Wild West when I was little, then seeing those again in reruns as I got older, and I had *no* idea he was so young when he did them.
@@UncleBubba13 He appeared on Perry Mason in the black and episodes but season 9 episode 21 one colorized episode as a villain
He was hilarious as King Tut and all his Batman taunts..
He was great as king tut on batman then on the wild wild west tv show
The screwed-up aspect ratio makes Mr. Buono look a lot taller and skinnier than he really was. He might have approved.
He had lost so much weight and seemed to be doing so well. Guess his heart was just weak. So sad
HE HAD LOST WEIGHT.
@@marshallkinjongun5333 wasn't that what I said? LOL
Should have won the Oscar that year (1962) for BABY JANE over the mediocre performance of Ed Begley in SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH.
King Tut in person
Victor Buono was a great actor but he wrestled with a lot of demons in his life - his weight, the fact that he was a gay actor in a time when gay actors had to keep their sexuality a secret or their careers would be ruined
His was only 35 here??
He was 37, but still! He was already playing much older roles when he was 21, in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte he was 26 and playing a 60-something character......Yet look at guys like Ian Somerhalder who are in their 40s, or Paul Rudd and Tom Cruise who are over 50!
Could they have found a smaller chair for this guy to sit in? Who was in charge of the sets on this program? I hope they didn’t earn more than minimum wage
One of his poems was about being unable to find a chair or theatre seat that fit his large frame, wherever he went.
When all else fails, there's always Fred de Cordova to blame.
Victor was apparently strongly against abortion..
I recall one evening l recited a very poignant poem about abortion...
Does anyone remember it. ??
Well, he was a male who died long before Roe was overturned by extremists and women started dying from miscarriages, so his opinion on that is irrelevant.
@@anneahlert2997 ....just as the aborted baby is irrelevant, I assume...??? One of the "talents" of the Nazis was deciding who was human and who was not....those that weren't were..well...eliminated...It's just too damned hard to keep your knickers on, isn't it????
Honestly, if you can't recall what poem YOU may have recited or when, then it's unlikely that anyone else would either. Unless you meant one that Mr. Buono recited, but that's not entirely clear in your comment.
Yessir, I do....very poignant and surprising ending to the poem.
@@QuadMochaMatti It's called "I Am," and it's from his HEAVY album of 1971. Any more questions?
Rest in peace Victor Buono.🙏😓🙏. Shame he could not live openly as a gay man. ❤🏳️🌈❤
How is he 37 here? I can't believe it
well, he started balding in his mid twenties and getting gray in his early thirties. which was genetic and happened to his dad and brother too. and then he had always a mature demeanor and then that magnificent voice. makes him seem older at first glance in general. but then it was also his career to olay much older than he was so for example the beard he wore for age. He once said in reference to his baby face: "My face is like a blue eyed omelette, a picture of total Innocence. Which is terribly bad in my line of work." There are other appearances from that year where he seems much younger. He was a character actor after all and loved to chance his looks up gor the fun of it.
Hell he lost a ton of weight since 1962 when he was in Whatever Happened To Baby Jane.
Suits got a LOT bigger, too.
Not really, he's most likely at the same weight he was when doing Baby Jane. He actually lost 80 pounds for Baby Jane, afterwards he got pretty heavy again with lots of ups and down and slimmed drastically down in 1971 and kept most of it off until 1979.
It's the bizarre aspect ratio of this video that is deceiving.
Ya he was 37 here he was 24 in baby Jane lol I'll look younger when I'm 70 lol
if that's you in your icon you shouldn't talk. he always looked a hundred times better and youthful than you blobfish with frosted tips. 😂 if you're in the glass house and all that...
Maybe he lied by 30 years and really died at 73 not 43 lol
He was gay.
An outstanding actor but I'm not interested in poetry.
He seems like a really nice guy.. and he also looks like he could have been enormously strong if he had been trained for it
LEDGEND. THAN YOU VICTOR.