LOS ANGELES - Buddy Hackett, the squat, round, rubbery-faced funnyman who appeared for more than 50 years as a top act in nightclubs, Broadway shows, on television and in such movies as "The Music Man ...

With a squeaky voice like a leaking balloon, a pudgy baby-face that looked perpetually stunned and a fleshy body shaped like a fireplug, Buddy Hackett defied the world not to laugh at him. As a child, ...

Buddy Hackett, the squat, round, rubbery-faced funnyman who appeared for more than 50 years as a top act in nightclubs, Broadway shows, on television and in such movies as "The Music Man," "The Love ...