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Victor Buono

1938 - 1982

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Victor Charles Buono (February 3, 1938 – January 1, 1982) was an American actor, comic, and briefly a recording artist. He was known for playing the villain King Tut in the television series Batman (1966–1968) and musician Edwin Flagg in What Ever 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 the age of 43 and, with his large size and sonorous voice, he made a career of playing men much older than he was. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2024). Victor Buono is the 4,596th most popular actor (down from 4,366th in 2024), the 7,296th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,403rd in 2019) and the 2,112th most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Victor Buono ranks 4,596 out of 13,578. Before him are Noah Emmerich, Shirley Douglas, Rose Byrne, Henry Thomas, Art Malik, and Daniela Romo. After him are Richard Portnow, George Nader, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Jeremy Wade, Robert Stephens, and Thomas Ian Griffith.

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Among people born in 1938, Victor Buono ranks 402. Before him are Maurizio Costanzo, Carlos Lapetra, Justin Lekhanya, Edda Moser, Edem Kodjo, and Eugenio Montejo. After him are Gavino Ledda, Martin Lee, Connie Stevens, Indira Nath, Millie Perkins, and Mahmoud El-Gohary. Among people deceased in 1982, Victor Buono ranks 206. Before him are Clifford Curzon, Virginia Hall, René Dubos, Nikolai Kamanin, Elis Wiklund, and Tomás Romero Pereira. After him are Beb Bakhuys, Boris Andreyev, Alexander Abusch, Lightnin' Hopkins, Katherine Rawls, and Hal Foster.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Victor Buono ranks 7,298 out of 20,380. Before him are Armand Duplantis (1999), Clinton Hart Merriam (1855), Henry Thomas (1971), Tom DiCillo (1953), Jack Conway (1887), and Gary Ross (1956). After him are Bill Joy (1954), Richard Portnow (1947), Shirley Horn (1934), George Nader (1921), Caleb Deschanel (1944), and Thomas Ian Griffith (1962).

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Among actors born in United States, Victor Buono ranks 2,113. Before him are Earl Holliman (1928), Robert Preston (1918), David Spade (1964), Lewis Arquette (1935), Noah Emmerich (1965), and Henry Thomas (1971). After him are Richard Portnow (1947), George Nader (1921), Thomas Ian Griffith (1962), Dana Reeve (1961), Jennifer Taylor (1972), and Campbell Scott (1961).

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