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.

@louiseturner9811

5 ай бұрын

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

@Quibblet

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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.

A charming, funny and very talented man.

Now THAT is talent.

@tomvecchione3475

3 жыл бұрын

Very true. Both Buono and Foster Brooks were sooooo talented and charming

@johnbockelie3899

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@j.goodwin9908

Жыл бұрын

In 1964, age 26, he played Sam Hollis, Charlotte’s father in Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte.

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!

@EriksDesdemona

Жыл бұрын

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.

@louiseturner9811

5 ай бұрын

Yes he certainly was.

Amazing talent! And those aquamarine eyes!

What a wonderful actor...RIP!

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"

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.

@EriksDesdemona

Жыл бұрын

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.

Holy, “Walk like and Egyptian” Batman!

Here in 2024 after watching him on Perry Mason!

Sad that he died so young. I was not aware.

@vividwatch47

4 жыл бұрын

Just a couple of days after New Year's Day. Tragic.

@chrischar1969

4 жыл бұрын

@@vividwatch47 January 1, 1982

i remember him in batman tv show in the 60s what an actor

@wb3381

11 ай бұрын

He played a villain on Perry Mason and the Wild Wild West

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.

Phenomenal Actor!!

Handsome man with beautiful eyes

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.

@EriksDesdemona

Жыл бұрын

What does that even mean?

@louiseturner9811

5 ай бұрын

If he was alive now Victor Buono could be free with his homosexuality. ❤🏳️‍🌈❤

King Tut from Batman.

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.

@mr.zondide2746

Жыл бұрын

Noticed that, thought it was a rude remark but Buono so quick witted he came back with a hilarious line and broke Carson up

Great screen presence, but he always looked twenty years older than he actually was

@EriksDesdemona

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@dekelanson5280

Жыл бұрын

I agree. He's 37 here but looks much older.

@chadglasner4755

Жыл бұрын

He played the Dad to Jim ob the series Taxi. I've read that both Jim and Christopher were actually similar in age

Easily taken for a man 20-30 years older than he was here at 37.

@UncleBubba13

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@wb3381

11 ай бұрын

@@UncleBubba13 He appeared on Perry Mason in the black and episodes but season 9 episode 21 one colorized episode as a villain

And to think he was ounce an eminent professor at Yale University.

@johnstevenson9956

3 жыл бұрын

Well, that was before he was conked in the head and became a super-villain.

@roberttelarket4934

3 жыл бұрын

I haven't checked wiki but I doubt he taught at Yale.

@302Diane

3 жыл бұрын

@Robert Telarket It's a joke based on the back story of his King Tut character.

The Count Carlos Mario Vincenzo Robespierre Manzeppi.

@josephvitielo1693

3 жыл бұрын

Mr West enjoy RIP Robert Conrad

@mr.zondide2746

Жыл бұрын

That was one of the problems with WWW count manzeppi should have done three or four additional appearances

The screwed-up aspect ratio makes Mr. Buono look a lot taller and skinnier than he really was. He might have approved.

He was hilarious as King Tut and all his Batman taunts..

He had lost so much weight and seemed to be doing so well. Guess his heart was just weak. So sad

@marshallkinjongun5333

3 жыл бұрын

HE HAD LOST WEIGHT.

@gwenking7700

3 жыл бұрын

@@marshallkinjongun5333 wasn't that what I said? LOL

He was great as king tut on batman then on the wild wild west tv show

Should have won the Oscar that year (1962) for BABY JANE over the mediocre performance of Ed Begley in SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH.

Victor was apparently strongly against abortion.. I recall one evening l recited a very poignant poem about abortion... Does anyone remember it. ??

@anneahlert2997

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@SeanOLennon

Ай бұрын

@@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????

@QuadMochaMatti

Ай бұрын

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.

@SeanOLennon

Ай бұрын

Yessir, I do....very poignant and surprising ending to the poem.

@SeanOLennon

Ай бұрын

@@QuadMochaMatti It's called "I Am," and it's from his HEAVY album of 1971. Any more questions?

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

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

@anneahlert2997

2 жыл бұрын

One of his poems was about being unable to find a chair or theatre seat that fit his large frame, wherever he went.

@QuadMochaMatti

Ай бұрын

When all else fails, there's always Fred de Cordova to blame.

His was only 35 here??

@KalOrtPor

4 жыл бұрын

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!

How is he 37 here? I can't believe it

@EriksDesdemona

2 жыл бұрын

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.

Rest in peace Victor Buono.🙏😓🙏. Shame he could not live openly as a gay man. ❤🏳️‍🌈❤

Hell he lost a ton of weight since 1962 when he was in Whatever Happened To Baby Jane.

@jamespfitz

2 жыл бұрын

Suits got a LOT bigger, too.

@EriksDesdemona

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@QuadMochaMatti

Ай бұрын

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

@EriksDesdemona

Жыл бұрын

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.