Bud Abbott

Bud Abbott

William Alexander "Bud" Abbott was an American actor, producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the straight man of the comedy team Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello.

  • Title: Bud Abbott
  • Popularity: 4.975
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1897-10-02
  • Place of Birth: Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA
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  • Also Known As: William Alexander Abbott
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Bud Abbott Movies

  • 1985
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    Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers

    Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers

    1 1985 HD

    William Shatner, Liz Taylor and many more stars blow lines, lose their pants and more in this hilarious collection of movie and TV bloopers.

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  • 1953
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    Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    6.3 1953 HD

    As American policemen in London, Bud and Lou meet up with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

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  • 1948
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    Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

    Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

    7 1948 HD

    Baggage handlers Bud and Lou accidentally stumble upon Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula and the Wolf Man.

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  • 1968
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    The Movie Orgy

    The Movie Orgy

    6.2 1968 HD

    Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and...

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  • 1949
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    Africa Screams

    Africa Screams

    5.7 1949 HD

    When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking that his friend Stanley knows all there is to know about Africa, they are abducted and ordered to lead...

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  • 1942
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    Pardon My Sarong

    Pardon My Sarong

    6.521 1942 HD

    A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat...

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  • 1948
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    Mexican Hayride

    Mexican Hayride

    5.6 1948 HD

    Two con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter.

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  • 1990
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    Abbott and Costello in the Movies

    Abbott and Costello in the Movies

    1 1990 HD

    See America's funniest comedy team in rare movie trailers, hilarious highlights, belly-busting bloopers, and scenes from their starring feature...

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  • 1941
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    In the Navy

    In the Navy

    6.3 1941 HD

    Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter,...

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  • 1952
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    Lost in Alaska

    Lost in Alaska

    6 1952 HD

    After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover that the police mistakenly want them for murder.

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  • 1945
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    The Naughty Nineties

    The Naughty Nineties

    6.8 1945 HD

    In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating...

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  • 1948
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    The Noose Hangs High

    The Noose Hangs High

    6.8 1948 HD

    Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent...

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  • 1942
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    Ride 'Em Cowboy

    Ride 'Em Cowboy

    5.8 1942 HD

    Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude...

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  • 1946
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    The Time of Their Lives

    The Time of Their Lives

    6.9 1946 HD

    Two ghosts, who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War, return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George...

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  • 1947
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    The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap

    The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap

    6.1 1947 HD

    Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a...

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  • 1955
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    Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

    Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

    6 1955 HD

    Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou find themselves in the buried tomb of a living mummy.

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  • 1953
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    Abbott and Costello Go to Mars

    Abbott and Costello Go to Mars

    5.5 1953 HD

    Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced...

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  • 1950
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    Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion

    Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion

    6.1 1950 HD

    Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which...

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  • 1951
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    Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man

    Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man

    6.353 1951 HD

    As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.

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  • 1949
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    Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

    Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

    6.5 1949 HD

    Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too...

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  • 1955
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    Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

    Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

    6.1 1955 HD

    Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where,...

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  • 1947
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    Buck Privates Come Home

    Buck Privates Come Home

    6.3 1947 HD

    Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up...

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  • 1956
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    Dance with Me, Henry

    Dance with Me, Henry

    5.1 1956 HD

    Bud and Lou are the owners of the amusement park Kiddieland. Bud, a compulsive gambler, gets in trouble with the mob, and Lou finds himself...

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  • 1951
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    Comin' Round the Mountain

    Comin' Round the Mountain

    6 1951 HD

    Al Stewart and Wilbert are magicians doing a stage act when they run into Wilbert's cousin, Dorothy McCoy. They find out that Wilbert's grandfather,...

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  • 1945
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    Here Come the Co-eds

    Here Come the Co-eds

    5.6 1945 HD

    Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly...

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  • 1943
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    Hit the Ice

    Hit the Ice

    5.9 1943 HD

    After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers, where they meet an...

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  • 1941
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    Keep 'Em Flying

    Keep 'Em Flying

    5.9 1941 HD

    When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott &...

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  • 1979
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    The Horror Show

    The Horror Show

    6 1979 HD

    A history of horror movies.

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  • 1979
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    The Hollywood Clowns

    The Hollywood Clowns

    1 1979 HD

    Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history.

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  • 1941
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    Buck Privates

    Buck Privates

    6.6 1941 HD

    Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor....

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  • 1940
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    One Night in the Tropics

    One Night in the Tropics

    5.6 1940 HD

    Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million...

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  • 1944
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    In Society

    In Society

    5.8 1944 HD

    Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree...

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  • 1946
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    Little Giant

    Little Giant

    5.3 1946 HD

    Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his...

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  • 1941
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    Hold That Ghost

    Hold That Ghost

    6.7 1941 HD

    Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked...

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  • 1952
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    Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

    Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

    5.904 1952 HD

    Two hapless waiters in a tavern on the Spanish Main play cupid between aristocratic Lady Jane and tavern co-worker Bruce Martindale, but the two...

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  • 1945
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    Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

    Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

    5.66 1945 HD

    When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.

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  • 1942
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    Who Done It?

    Who Done It?

    6.9 1942 HD

    Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder...

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  • 1952
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    Jack and the Beanstalk

    Jack and the Beanstalk

    5.6 1952 HD

    A young boy trades the family cow for magic beans. Ascending the beanstalk with the butcher who sold him the beans, he faces the giant terrorizing...

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  • 1982
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    Showbiz Goes to War

    Showbiz Goes to War

    10 1982 HD

    While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the...

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  • 1943
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    It Ain't Hay

    It Ain't Hay

    6.4 1943 HD

    Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack,...

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  • 1942
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    Rio Rita

    Rio Rita

    5.8 1942 HD

    Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.

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  • 1983
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    Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

    Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

    6.5 1983 HD

    Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival...

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  • 1951
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    Knights of the Bath

    Knights of the Bath

    1 1951 HD

    Short film cobbled from the Abbott & Costello feature In Society for the home movie market.

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  • 1944
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    Lost in a Harem

    Lost in a Harem

    5.5 1944 HD

    Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.

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  • 2000
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    Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed

    Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed

    7 2000 HD

    Documentary featured on the Classic Monster Collection and Monster Legacy Collection for The Mummy (1932).

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  • 1972
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    Hollywood: The Dream Factory

    Hollywood: The Dream Factory

    6 1972 HD

    A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...

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  • 1991
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    Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

    Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

    10 1991 HD

    A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.

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  • 2000
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    The Many Faces of Dracula

    The Many Faces of Dracula

    5 2000 HD

    Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed Dracula over the years.

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  • 1991
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    Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook

    Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook

    5.7 1991 HD

    Documentary with a treasure trove of rare footage and vintage trailers, offering a rich and unusual look at the history of Frankenstein on the screen.

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  • 1982
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    Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

    Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

    6 1982 HD

    A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions spanning from the 1930s through the 1980s.

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  • 2007
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    Abbott and Costello: Funniest Routines, Vol. 2

    Abbott and Costello: Funniest Routines, Vol. 2

    1 2007 HD

    Offering 1950s television audiences night after night of vaudeville-style hilarity, comic legends Abbott and Costello frequently used their hosting...

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  • 2007
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    Abbott and Costello: Funniest Routines, Vol. 1

    Abbott and Costello: Funniest Routines, Vol. 1

    8 2007 HD

    Join the most popular comedy team in history with a collection of their most loved classic skits! Highlights include Who's on First, The Piano Bit...

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  • 1965
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    The World of Abbott and Costello

    The World of Abbott and Costello

    6.3 1965 HD

    A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott & Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, In the Navy, Hit the Ice, Who Done It?, Abbott and...

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  • 1949
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    Fun on the Run

    Fun on the Run

    1 1949 HD

    Bixby College needs to win the girls' basketball tourney prize-money in order to survive, but a pair of gamblers have brought in some Amazonian...

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  • 1949
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    Kitchen Mechanics

    Kitchen Mechanics

    5 1949 HD

    Lou and Bud start their new job as live-in caretakers on a college campus by trying - very trying - to get their own quarters cleaned up.

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  • 2013
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    Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

    Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

    5.5 2013 HD

    Uncensored. Laugh along with Hollywood's brightest stars in this hilarious compilation of bloopers from some of the biggest movies in history ....

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  • 2010
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    Behind the Burly Q

    Behind the Burly Q

    5.2 2010 HD

    Dive into more than a century of decadence with this tantalizing look at the evolution of burlesque. Cabaret star Leslie Zemeckis traces the art form...

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  • 1970
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    Abbott & Costello: Live & Hilarious!

    Abbott & Costello: Live & Hilarious!

    8 1970 HD

    The best collection of the famous duel's live performances.

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  • 2011
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    The Abbott and Costello Show: Who's On First?

    The Abbott and Costello Show: Who's On First?

    8 2011 HD

    Featuring the routines that made them comedy legends like “Who’s On First?,” and “The Lemon Bit,” this digitally...

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  • 2011
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    Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes

    Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes

    1 2011 HD

    A history of the British television comedy double act Morecambe & Wise to coincide with the BBC drama about their early lives.

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  • 1948
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    10,000 Kids and a Cop

    10,000 Kids and a Cop

    6 1948 HD

    A documentary showing the constructive approach taken by the Lou Costello, Jr. Youth Foundation in Los Angeles toward prevention of juvenile...

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  • 1990
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    Abbott & Costello in the Movies

    Abbott & Costello in the Movies

    1 1990 HD

    The funniest moments of legendary comedy duo Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are captured in this choice collection of theatrical trailers, hit sketches,...

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  • 2008
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    Shemp Cocktail: A Toast to the Original Stooge

    Shemp Cocktail: A Toast to the Original Stooge

    1 2008 HD

    A compilation that highlights works from the Three Stooges. It includes the shorts Brideless Groom, Sing a Song of Six Pants, and Malice in the...

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  • 1976
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    That's Entertainment, Part II

    That's Entertainment, Part II

    6.8 1976 HD

    Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical...

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  • 1944
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    Twenty Years After

    Twenty Years After

    6 1944 HD

    This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

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  • 1994
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    Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld

    Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld

    7 1994 HD

    Jerry Seinfeld celebrates the lives and careers of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Featured are clips from their movies and TV shows, plus home movies,...

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  • 1964
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    The Big Parade of Comedy

    The Big Parade of Comedy

    6.3 1964 HD

    Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

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  • 1996
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    Abbott & Costello Meet Biography

    Abbott & Costello Meet Biography

    1 1996 HD

    A biography of comedian duo Bud Abbott & Lou Costello

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  • 1952
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    Abbott and Costello Christmas Show

    Abbott and Costello Christmas Show

    5.5 1952 HD

    Christmas themed episode of the colgate comedy hour.

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  • 2000
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    Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters!

    Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters!

    7.3 2000 HD

    A documentary from Universal about the movie Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein.

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  • 1999
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    Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'

    Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'

    6.9 1999 HD

    Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a character portrayed by Lon Chaney, Jr. Monster...

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  • 1997
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    The Best of Abbott & Costello Live

    The Best of Abbott & Costello Live

    1 1997 HD

    "He-e-ey Abb-o-o-o-tt!!" screamed Lou. And all America knew the fun was about to begin. For decades, lanky straight man Bud Abbott and tubby spark...

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  • 1952
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    Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

    Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

    5.904 1952 HD

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  • 1950
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    7 1950 HD

    The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many...

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.632 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

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  • 1953
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    General Electric Theater

    General Electric Theater

    6 1953 HD

    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was...

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  • 1952
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    The Abbott and Costello Show

    The Abbott and Costello Show

    7.3 1952 HD

    Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields’ boarding house. Lou’s girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Many situations...

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  • 1956
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    The Steve Allen Show

    The Steve Allen Show

    5 1956 HD

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  • 1950
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    7 1950 HD

    The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many...

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  • 1995
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    Svengoolie

    Svengoolie

    8.5 1995 HD

    The host Svengoolie talks about various horror movies while showing the movies, one per episode, and gives an introduction to them and performs an...

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  • 2009
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    Studio 42 with Bob Costas

    Studio 42 with Bob Costas

    1 2009 HD

    Emanating from Studio 42 -- named in honor of Jackie Robinson -- in MLB Network's Secaucus, N.J., headquarters, this series features the Hall of...

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