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Cause of death
  
Heart attack

Role
  
Actor

Name
  
Lou Costello


Years active
  
1926–1959

Occupation
  
Actor, comedian

Height
  
1.65 m

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Full Name
  
Louis Francis Cristillo

Born
  
March 6, 1906 (
1906-03-06
)

Resting place
  
Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles

Died
  
March 3, 1959, Beverly Hills, California, United States

Spouse
  
Anne Battler (m. 1934–1959)

Children
  
Carole Costello, Patricia Costello, Chris Costello, Lou Costello Jr.

Movies and TV shows
  
Abbott and Costello Meet Fra, The Abbott and Costello, Buck Privates, Abbott and Costello Meet the, Abbott and Costello Meet the I

Similar People
  
Bud Abbott, Charles Barton, Charles Lamont, Anne Battler, Jean Yarbrough

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Louis Francis "Lou" Cristillo (March 6, 1906 – March 3, 1959), known by the stage name Lou Costello, was an American actor of radio, stage, television and film and burlesque comedian best remembered for the comedy double act of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott. They started in burlesque, before showcasing their routines on radio, on Broadway, and in Hollywood films between 1940-1956. Costello played a bumbling character opposite Abbott's straight man. He was known for the catchphrases "Heeeeyyy, Abbott!" and "I'm a baaaaad boy!"

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Early life

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Costello was born Louis Francis Cristillo on March 6, 1906, in Paterson, New Jersey, the son of Helen Rege and Sebastiano Cristillo. His father was Italian (from Calabria, Italy) and his mother was an American of Italian, French, and Irish ancestry. He attended School 15 in Paterson and was considered a gifted athlete. He excelled in basketball and reportedly was once the New Jersey state free throw champion (his singular basketball prowess can be seen in Here Come the Co-Eds (1945), in which he performs all his own tricky hoop shots without special effects). He also fought as a boxer under the name "Lou King". He took his professional name from actress Helene Costello.

Family

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On January 30, 1934, Costello married Anne Battler, a burlesque dancer. Their first child, Patricia "Paddy" Costello, was born in 1936, followed by Carole on December 23, 1938, and Lou Jr. (nicknamed "Butch") on November 6, 1942. On August 15, 1947, their last child, Christine, was born.

Career

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As a young man Costello was a great admirer of silent movie comedian Charlie Chaplin. In 1927 Costello hitchhiked to Hollywood to become an actor, but could only find work as a laborer or extra at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Brothers. His athletic skill brought him occasional work as a stunt man, notably in The Trail of '98 (1928). He can also be spotted sitting ringside in the Laurel and Hardy film The Battle of the Century (1927).

Burlesque and Bud Abbott

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In 1929, with the advent of talking pictures, he headed back east to gain the requisite stage experience. He stopped in Saint Joseph, Missouri and convinced a local burlesque producer to hire him as a Dutch comic ("Dutch" was a corruption of "Deutsche," and the comic performed with a German accent). After less than a year he returned to New York and began working in burlesque on the Mutual Burlesque wheel during the Great Depression. There he changed his stage name to "Costello", after actress Helene Costello.

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After the Mutual Wheel collapsed, Costello went to work for the Minskys, where he crossed paths with a talented producer and straight man named Bud Abbott. In 1935 they first worked together at the Eltinge Theatre on 42nd Street in New York City when Costello's partner failed to show. Abbott and Costello formally teamed up in 1936.

Reportedly their first disagreement was over a booking in a minstrel show at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, NJ. Costello wanted to take the gig, but Abbott was resistant. Costello offered to give Abbott a larger split of their salary, and Abbott agreed. Years later, in the flush of their Hollywood success, Costello reversed the salary split, 60-40 in his favor.

Radio and Hollywood

Abbott and Costello were signed by the William Morris talent agency, which succeeded in landing them featured roles and national exposure on The Kate Smith Hour, a popular variety show, in 1938. The team's signature routine, "Who's On First?," made its radio debut on Smith's show that year. Many of the team's sketches were further polished by John Grant, who was hired soon after the team joined the radio show. They had their own program, The Abbott and Costello Show, on radio from 1942-49.

Their success on the Smith program led to their appearance in a Broadway musical in 1939, The Streets of Paris. The following year they were signed to a movie contract with Universal Pictures.

They only had supporting roles in their first picture, One Night in the Tropics (1940), but stole the film with their classic routines, including a much-shortened version of "Who's On First?" (a more complete version was performed in The Naughty Nineties, released in 1945). The team's breakthrough picture, however, was Buck Privates, released early in 1941. They immediately became the top-ranking comedy stars in Hollywood. Most moviegoers had never seen the duo's burlesque routines, and so their dated but hilarious material seemed fresh.

Fame and tragedy

The duo made 36 films between 1940–56, and were among the most popular and highest-paid entertainers in the world during World War II. Among their most popular films are Buck Privates, Hold That Ghost, Who Done It?, Pardon My Sarong, The Time of Their Lives, Buck Privates Come Home, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein and Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man.

The team also appeared on radio throughout the 1940s. On October 8, 1942, they launched their own weekly show on NBC, sponsored by Camel cigarettes.

In the summer of 1942, the team went on a 35-day cross-country tour to promote and sell War Bonds. The Treasury Department credited them with the sale of $85 million in bonds.

In March 1943, after completing a winter tour of army bases, Costello had an attack of rheumatic fever and was unable to work for six months. On November 4 of that year he returned to the team's popular radio show, but a tragic event overshadowed his comeback. Upon arriving at the NBC studio, Lou received word that his infant son, Lou Jr., had accidentally drowned in the family pool. During an afternoon nap, the baby worked loose one of the slats on his crib, climbed out and fell into the pool, unnoticed by the nanny. The baby ('Little Butch') was just two days short of his first birthday. Lou had asked his wife to keep Butch up that night so the boy could hear his father on the radio for the first time. Rather than cancel the broadcast, Lou said, "Wherever he is tonight, I want him to hear me," and went on with the show. No one in the audience knew of the death until after the show when Bud Abbott explained the events of the day, and how the phrase "The show must go on" had been epitomized by Lou that night. Costello's close friend, Maxene Andrews of the Andrews Sisters, said that his entire demeanor changed after the tragic loss of his son, saying, "He didn't seem as fun-loving and as warm . . . He seemed to anger easily . . . there was a difference in his attitude."

Also in 1943 he was drafted into World War II and went to court to seek a deferment. It was about this time that serious cracks began to appear in the relationship between Abbott and Costello. In 1945, when Costello fired a domestic servant and Abbott hired her, Costello announced that he would no longer work with Abbott. However, they were still under contract to Universal and required to complete two movies in 1946. They did Little Giant and The Time of Their Lives, but barely appeared together in both films and hardly speaking to one another off-camera. Abbott reached out to heal their relationship, suggesting that the foundation he and Costello had founded for underprivileged children be named the Lou Costello Jr. Youth Foundation, which touched Costello deeply.

Their radio program moved to ABC (the former NBC Blue Network) from 1947-49. It was pre-recorded.

In 1951 the duo began to appear on live television, becoming one of the rotating hosts of The Colgate Comedy Hour (Eddie Cantor, Martin and Lewis and Bob Hope were among the others) and the following year they began their own filmed situation comedy, The Abbott and Costello Show. Costello owned the half-hour series, with Abbott working on salary. The show, which was loosely adapted from their radio program, ran for two seasons, from 1952–54, but found long life in syndicated reruns.

They were forced to withdraw from Fireman Save My Child in 1954 due to Costello's poor health—he had been plagued by heart problems all his life due to a childhood bout of rheumatic fever—and were replaced by lookalikes Hugh O'Brian and Buddy Hackett. They were dropped by Universal the following year.

Costello was surprised and honored by Ralph Edwards on NBC's This Is Your Life in 1956.

Abbott and Costello split

By the mid-1950s Abbott and Costello films were no longer box-office gold, and after failing to come to terms with the team, Universal dropped their movie contract in 1955. With radio, film and television vehicles, they suffered from overexposure, and were eclipsed by the team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, who were the hot entertainment commodity that Abbott and Costello had been a decade earlier.

In 1956, after troubles with the Internal Revenue Service forced both men to sell their large homes and the rights to some of their films, Abbott and Costello made their final film together, an independent production called Dance with Me, Henry. The film was a box-office disappointment and received mixed critical reviews.

Abbott and Costello dissolved their partnership in 1957 amicably. Costello then pursued a solo stand up career, including stints in Las Vegas, and sought film projects for himself. He appeared several times on Steve Allen's fledgling The Tonight Show, but most often in variations of his old routines, with Louis Nye or Tom Poston taking on the straight man role. Costello sought to be known as something other than the funny fat man in the baggy clothes, and played a dramatic role on television's Wagon Train.

Death

Shortly after completion of The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock—his only starring film appearance without Abbott—Costello suffered a heart attack. He died at Doctors Hospital in Beverly Hills on March 3, 1959, three days before his 53rd birthday. Sources conflict on the circumstances of his last day and final words. By some accounts—restated in numerous "quotes" aggregates—he told visitors that the strawberry ice cream soda he had just finished was "the best I ever tasted", then expired. By other reports, including several contemporaneous obituaries, the ice cream soda exchange occurred earlier in the day; later, after his wife and friends had left, he asked his private-duty nurse to adjust his position in bed. "I think I'll be more comfortable," he said; but before the nurse could comply, he suffered a cardiac arrest and died.

After a funeral Mass at his parish, St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Sherman Oaks, Costello was interred at the Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles, on March 8. His wife Anne died from an apparent heart attack nine months later on December 5, 1959, at age 47.

Family legacy in the entertainment industry

Costello's older brother, Pat Costello (Anthony Sebastian Cristillo 1902–1990) was a stuntman and an actor, mostly performing the stunts in Lou's place.

Costello's sister, Marie Katherine Cristillo (1912–1988) was married to actor Joe Kirk (Nat Curcuruto), who portrayed "Mr. Bacciagalupe" on the Abbott and Costello radio and television shows and appeared in supporting roles in several of the team's films.

Lou and Anne's second daughter, Carole, appeared in uncredited baby roles in several Abbott and Costello films. She went on to become a contestant coordinator for the game show Card Sharks as well as a nightclub singer. She died of a stroke on March 29, 1987, at age 48 while married to Craig Martin, eldest son of Dean Martin. Carole's daughter, Marki Costello, is an actress, director and producer in film and television.

Lou and Anne's youngest daughter, Chris, published a biography, Lou's On First, in 1981.

Memorials

On June 26, 1992, the city of Paterson, New Jersey—in conjunction with the Lou Costello Memorial Association—erected a statue of Costello in the newly named Lou Costello Memorial Park in the city's historic downtown section. It shows Costello holding a baseball bat, a reference to the team's most famous routine, "Who's on First?". The statue has had brief appearances in two episodes of The Sopranos: "Big Girls Don't Cry" and "Cold Stones". The statue and the "Who's on First?" routine also featured in the 2016 film Paterson. In 2005, Madison Street, in the Sandy Hill section of Paterson, where Costello was born, was renamed Lou Costello Place.

The centennial of Costello's birth was celebrated in Paterson on the first weekend in March 2006. From June 24 to June 26, 2006, the Fort Lee (NJ) Film Commission held a centennial film retrospective at the Fine Arts Theatre in Hollywood. Films screened included the premiere of a digital film made by the teenagers of the present day Lou Costello Jr. Recreation Center in East Los Angeles. Also premiered was a 35mm restored print of the Lou Costello-produced 1948 short film 10,000 Kids and a Cop, which was shot at the Lou Costello, Jr. Youth Center in East Los Angeles.

In 2009, Costello was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.

Abbott and Costello are among the few non-baseball personnel to be memorialized in the Baseball Hall of Fame, although they are not inductees of the Hall itself. A plaque and a gold record of the Who's on First? sketch have been on permanent display there since 1956, and the routine runs on an endless video loop in the exhibit area.

Filmography

Actor
1959
The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock as
Artie Pinsetter
1958
Wagon Train (TV Series) as
Tobias Jones
- The Tobias Jones Story (1958) - Tobias Jones
1958
General Electric Theater (TV Series) as
Neal Andrews
- Blaze of Glory (1958) - Neal Andrews
1956
Dance with Me, Henry as
Lou Henry
1955
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy as
Freddie Franklin
1955
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops as
Willie 'Tubby' Piper
1954
Fireman Save My Child as
Man in Long Shots (uncredited)
1952
The Abbott and Costello Show (TV Series) as
Lou Costello
- Barber Lou (1954) - Lou Costello
- Fall Guy (1954) - Lou Costello
- Beauty Contest (1954) - Lou Costello
- Fencing Master (1954) - Lou Costello
- Honeymoon House (1954) - Lou Costello
- The Pigeon (1954) - Lou Costello
- Well Oiled (1954) - Lou Costello
- Bank Holdup (1954) - Lou Costello
- Public Enemies (1954) - Lou Costello
- The Tax Return (1954) - Lou Costello
- Private Eye (1954) - Lou Costello
- Uncle from New Jersey (1954) - Lou Costello
- Wife Wanted (1954) - Lou Costello
- Car Trouble (1954) - Lou Costello
- Efficiency Experts (1954) - Lou Costello
- Amnesia (1954) - Lou Costello
- $1000 TV Prize (1954) - Lou Costello
- From Bed to Worse (1954) - Lou Costello
- South of Dixie (1953) - Lou Costello
- Cheapskates (1953) - Lou Costello
- Killer's Wife (1953) - Lou Costello
- Pest Exterminators (1953) - Lou Costello
- Life Insurance (1953) - Lou Costello
- In Society (1953) - Lou Costello
- Uncle Bozzo's Visit (1953) - Lou Costello
- The Paperhangers (1953) - Lou Costello
- Safari (1953) - Lou Costello
- Police Rookies (1953) - Lou Costello
- The Actors' Home (1953) - Lou Costello
- Little Old Lady (1953) - Lou Costello
- Las Vegas (1953) - Lou Costello
- Television (1953) - Lou Costello
- Hillary's Birthday (1953) - Lou Costello
- Bingo (1953) - Lou Costello
- Getting a Job (1953) - Lou Costello
- The Wrestling Match (1953) - Lou Costello
- The Politician (1953) - Lou Costello
- The Music Lover (1953) - Lou Costello
- Hungry (1953) - Lou Costello
- Peace and Quiet (1953) - Lou Costello
- The Haunted Castle (1953) - Lou Costello
- The Western Story (1953) - Lou Costello
- The Charity Bazaar (1953) - Lou Costello
- Pots and Pans (1953) - Lou Costello
- The Army Story (1953) - Lou Costello
- The Vacuum Cleaner Salesman (1953) - Lou Costello
- Alaska (1953) - Lou Costello
- The Birthday Party (1953) - Lou Costello
- The Vacation (1952) - Lou Costello
- Jail (1952) - Lou Costello
- The Dentist's Office (1952) - Lou Costello
- The Drugstore (1952) - Lou Costello
1953
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as
Tubby
1953
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars as
Orville
1952
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd as
Captain 'Puddin' head' Feathergill
1952
Lost in Alaska as
George Bell
1952
Jack and the Beanstalk as
Jack / Jack Strong (as Costello)
1951
Comin' Round the Mountain as
Wilbert Smith
1951
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man as
Lou Francis
1950
Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion as
Lou Hotchkiss
1949
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff as
Freddie Phillips
1949
Africa Screams as
Stanley Livington
1948
Mexican Hayride as
Joe Bascom aka Humphrey Fish
1948
10, 000 Kids and a Cop (Short documentary) as
Lou Costello
1948
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein as
Wilbur Gray
1948
The Noose Hangs High as
Tommy Hinchcliffe
1947
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap as
Chester Wooley
1947
Buck Privates Come Home as
Private Herbie Brown
1946
The Time of Their Lives as
Horatio Prim
1946
Little Giant as
Benny Miller
1945
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood as
Abercrombie
1945
The Naughty Nineties as
Sebastian Dinwiddle
1945
Here Come the Co-eds as
Oliver Quackenbush
1944
Lost in a Harem as
Harvey Garvey
1944
In Society as
Albert Mansfield
1943
Hit the Ice as
Weejie McCoy
1943
It Ain't Hay as
Wilbur Hoolihan
1942
Who Done It? as
Mervin Q. Milgrim / Voice of Himself on Radio
1942
Pardon My Sarong as
Wellington Pflug
1942
Rio Rita as
'Wishy' Dunne
1942
Ride 'Em Cowboy as
Willoughby
1941
Keep 'Em Flying as
Heathcliff
1941
Hold That Ghost as
Ferdinand Jones
1941
In the Navy as
Pomeroy Watson
1941
Buck Privates as
Herbie Brown
1940
One Night in the Tropics as
Costello
1928
The Cossacks as
Extra (uncredited)
1928
Circus Rookies as
Extra (uncredited)
1928
Rose-Marie as
Extra (uncredited)
1927
The Battle of the Century (Short) as
Ringside Spectator (uncredited)
1927
The Fair Co-Ed as
Extra (uncredited)
1927
The Taxi Dancer as
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
1926
Bardelys the Magnificent as
Extra (uncredited)
Producer
1953
I'm the Law (TV Series) (executive producer - 10 episodes)
- The Bust of Plato (1953) - (executive producer)
- Husband and Wife Murder Story (1953) - (executive producer)
- The Countess Bobo Story (1953) - (executive producer)
- The Juvenile Murder Story (1953) - (executive producer)
- The Stool Pigeon Story (1953) - (executive producer)
- Who Killed Evelyn? (1953) - (executive producer)
- South American Money and the General's Coffin (1953) - (executive producer)
- The Firebug Story (1953) - (executive producer)
- The McClury Brothers Story (1953) - (executive producer)
- The Fight Fix Story (1953) - (executive producer)
1952
Jack and the Beanstalk (producer - uncredited)
1948
10, 000 Kids and a Cop (Short documentary) (producer)
1948
The Noose Hangs High (executive producer - uncredited)
1944
A Wave, a WAC and a Marine (executive producer - as Sebastian Cristillo)
Stunts
1928
The Trail of '98 (stunt double: Harry Carey, window-jumping scene - uncredited)
1928
Rose-Marie (stunts - uncredited)
Soundtrack
1956
Dance with Me, Henry (performer: "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" (aka Drinking Song))
1952
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (performer: "Tonight We Sail" - uncredited)
1951
The Colgate Comedy Hour (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)
- Abbott & Costello (1952) - (performer: "White Christmas")
- Hosts: Abbott & Costello; guest stars: Lon Chaney, Jr., Jarmilla Novotna (1951) - (performer: "Don Juan Costello", "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" (uncredited) (1919))
1952
Jack and the Beanstalk (performer: "Jack and the Beanstalk", "I Fear Nothing", "Dreamer's Cloth", "He Never Looked Better In His Life")
1946
The Time of Their Lives (performer: "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" (1616) - uncredited)
1945
The Naughty Nineties (performer: "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" - uncredited)
1945
Here Come the Co-eds (performer: "Let's Play House")
1942
Pardon My Sarong (performer: "Deep in the Heart of Texas" (1942) - uncredited)
1941
Hold That Ghost (performer: "The Blue Danube Waltz" (1867) - uncredited)
1941
In the Navy (performer: "You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith" (1941) (uncredited), "A Sailor's Life for Me" (1941))
1941
Buck Privates ("You're In The Army Now", uncredited) / (performer: "When Private Brown Becomes a Captain")
Writer
1954
The Abbott and Costello Show (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Barber Lou (1954) - (writer)
Thanks
2020
7x13=28 (Short) (in memory of)
2020
Who's on First?!!? The Animated Version (Short) (in memory of)
Self
1955
The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series) as
Self / Self - Comedian
- Episode #12.10 (1958) - Self - Comedian
- 8th Anniversary Show (1956) - Self
- Episode #9.11 (1955) - Self
1958
George Jessel Show (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #1.13 (1958) - Self
1958
The Lux Show (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #1.33 (1958) - Self
1956
The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (TV Series) as
Self / Self - Comedian / Self - House of the Monster Sketch / ...
- Julie Newmar, Dick Clark, Lou Costello, Ronnie Deauville, Beverly Kenney, Carl Ballantine, Abigail Van Buren, Maurice Gosfield, Sid Gould, Franklin Pangborn (1958) - Self
- Lou Costello, Jack Jones, Dolores Gray, Sabrina, Janik & Arnaut (1958) - Self
- From the Riviera Hotel, Havana Cuba (1958) - Self - Comedian
- Ann Sothern, Jackie Cain & Roy Kral, Lou Costello, Steve Lawrence, Milt Kamen (1957) - Self
- Ginger Rogers, Lou Costello, The Hi-Lo's, The Harlem Globetrotters (1957) - Self - House of the Monster Sketch
- Lou Costello, Liberace, Andy Williams, Abbey Lincoln, Jean Fenn (1957) - Self - Comedian
- Lou Costello, Pat Boone, Jonathan Winters, Abbey Lincoln, Fay DeWitt, Dulcie Cooper, The Ames Brothers (1957) - Self
- Greer Garson, Lou Costello, Dean Jones, Steve Peck, Janik & Arpaut, Howard McNear, Sandra Gould, Veola Vonn, The Lancers (1957) - Self
- Peter Lawford, Charles Van Doren, Lou Costello, Margaret Whiting, The Step Brothers (1957) - Self
- Abbott & Costello, Kukla, Fran & Ollie, Peggy King, Lionel Hampton, Don Lamond, Louis Bellson Mrs. Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle (1956) - Self - "Who's On First?"
1957
I've Got a Secret (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 26 June 1957 (1957) - Self - Guest
1956
This Is Your Life (TV Series) as
Self
- Lou Costello (1956) - Self
1956
Unit One (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 26 October 1956 (1956) - Self
1951
The Colgate Comedy Hour (TV Series) as
Self - Host / Self - Comic Actor / Self - Comedian / ...
- Hosts: Abbott & Costello; Guests: Les Paul & Mary Ford, Janik & Arnaut, Fred Darian, The Pied Pipers, Veola Vonn (1954) - Self - Host
- Abbott & Costello (1952) - Self - Host (as Costello)
- Hosts: Abbott & Costello; Guest: Peggy Lee, Fisher & Ross, The Shaller Brothers (1952) - Self - Host
- Hosts: Abbott & Costello; Guests: Lizabeth Scott, Gisele MacKenzie, The Four Pipers (1952) - Self - Host
- Hosts: Abbott & Costello; Guests: Vera Zorina, Tony Bavaar, The Ashtons, Monique Van Vooren, "Sport" Morgan, Sid Fields, Gemze de Lappe, Joe Kirk, Bobby Barber, Jean Cleveland, Charlie Bollinder, Three Beaus & a Peep, Al Goodman & his Orchestra (1952) - Self - Host (as Abbott and Costello)
- Hosts: Abbott & Costello; Guests: Charles Laughton, Isabel Bigley, Johnny Conrad, Sid Fields, Joe Kirk, Milton Frome, Bobby Barber, Jill Kraft, Anita Anton, Alex Fossell, Helen Donaldson, Three Beaus & a Peep, Al Goodman & his Orchestra (1952) - Self - Host (as Abbott and Costello)
- Hosts: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello; Guests: Errol Flynn, Rhonda Fleming, Bruce Cabot, Sid Fields, Joe Kirk, The Pied Pipers, cameo appearance by George Raft (1952) - Self - Host
- Hosts: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello; Guests: George Raft, Louis Armstrong, Rosette Shaw, The Pied Pipers, Al Goodman & his Orchestra (1951) - Self - Host
- Hosts: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello; Guests: Gale Storm, Phil Regan (1951) - Self - Host
- Hosts: Abbott & Costello; guest stars: Lon Chaney, Jr., Jarmilla Novotna (1951) - Self - Host
- Hosts: Abbott & Costello; Guests: Evelyn Knight, Hal Le Roy, Paul Remos & his Toy Boys, Jimmy Ford Four, Art & Mort Havel, Patricia Shea, Valerie de Cadenet, Al Goodman & his Orchestra (1951) - Self - Host
1952
News of the Day (Documentary short) as
Self
1952
Olympic Fund Telethon (TV Special) as
Self
1949
Erskine Johnson's Hollywood Reel (TV Series) as
Self
1948
The Milton Berle Show (TV Series) as
Self - Comedian
- Episode #1.34 (1949) - Self - Comedian
- Lou Costello, Mary McCarty, Garry Moore, Joe Phillips, The Three Wiles (1948) - Self - Comedian
1944
Mail Call (Short) as
Self (uncredited)
1942
Picture People No. 10: Hollywood at Home (Documentary short) as
Self
1942
Screen Snapshots Series 21, No. 6 (Short) as
Self
1942
Picture People Vol. 2 No. 6: Hollywood War Efforts (Short) as
Self
1941
Meet the Stars #4: Variety Reel #2 (Documentary short) as
Self
1940
The Baer-Galento Bout (Documentary short) as
Self (interviewed in locker room)
Archive Footage
2022
Dinosaur Quiz (Video short)
2021
Abbott & Costello: The Art of Chemistry (Video documentary short)
2021
The One and Only Dick Gregory (Documentary) as
Self (uncredited)
2020
7x13=28 (Short) as
Benny
2020
Do the Lou (Remix) (Music Video) as
Self
2020
Who's on First?!!? The Animated Version (Short) as
Sebastian Dinwiddle
2020
Do the Lou (Music Video) as
Self
2020
Big Parade of Horror (Documentary) as
Multiple Characters
2017
Diminishing Returns (Podcast Series) as
Lou Costello
- It (2017) - Lou Costello
2008
The Factor (TV Series) as
Self / Wilbur Grey
- Watters' World (2014) - Self
- Episode dated 29 April 2008 (2008) - Wilbur Grey
2013
42 as
Self (uncredited)
2011
Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (TV Series documentary) as
Wilbur
- Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (2011) - Wilbur
2011
Reagan (Documentary) as
Self
2011
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes (TV Movie documentary) as
Self (uncredited)
2010
A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Wilbur Grey
- Frankenstein Goes to Hollywood (2010) - Wilbur Grey (uncredited)
2010
Behind the Burly Q (Documentary) as
Self
2010
Muchachada nui (TV Series)(segment "Mundo viejuno: Jack y las habas que hablan")
- Episode #4.1 (2010) - (segment "Mundo viejuno: Jack y las habas que hablan")
2009
Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Sock it to Me?: Satire and Parody (2009) - Self
2009
Morecambe and Wise: The Show What Paul Merton Did (TV Movie documentary) as
Self (uncredited)
2008
Shemp Cocktail: A Toast to the Original Stooge (Video documentary) as
Self
2007
Classified X (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2006
The Story of Light Entertainment (TV Mini Series documentary)
- Double Acts (2006) - (as Abbott and Costello)
2005
Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us (TV Movie documentary) as
Orville
2005
The Great Man: W.C. Fields (Video documentary) as
Self
2004
Back to the 1950s (Video documentary)
2004
I Know A Riddle (Video short)
2003
Les vamps fantastiques (TV Movie documentary)
2002
The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster (Video documentary short) as
Lou (uncredited)
2000
The Many Faces of Dracula (Video documentary) as
Wilbur Gray
1999
ABC 2000: The Millennium (TV Movie documentary)
1999
Laugh? I Thought I'd Die! (Video)
1999
Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed (Video documentary short) as
Freddie
1999
The Century: America's Time (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Self - selling war bonds
- Homefront: 1941-1945 (1999) - Self - selling war bonds
1998
Universal Horror (TV Movie documentary)
1998
E! Mysteries & Scandals (TV Series documentary)
- Bela Lugosi (1998)
1997
American Masters (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Vaudeville (1997) - Self (as Abbott & Costello)
1996
Bob Hope: Hollywood's Brightest Star (Video documentary) as
Self
1995
Biography (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Bud Abbott & Lou Costello: Abbott & Costello Meet Biography (1996) - Self
- Bela Lugosi: Hollywood's Dark Prince (1995)
1995
Dumb, Dumber & Dumbest (Video documentary) as
Self
1995
Ed Sullivan All-Star Comedy Special (TV Special) as
Self
1994
Television's Christmas Classics (TV Special) as
Self
1994
Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld (TV Movie documentary)
1994
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein (TV Movie documentary)
1992
Dracula in the Movies (Video documentary) as
Self
1992
Legends of Comedy (TV Movie documentary)
1991
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook (Documentary) as
Wilbur Grey / Tubby
1991
When It Was a Game (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1990
Abbott and Costello in the Movies (Video documentary) as
Self
1990
Blushing Bloopers (Video documentary) as
Self
1990
Classic Movie Bloopers (Video documentary) as
Self
1990
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths (Video documentary)
1990
The Three Stooges 60th Anniversary Special (TV Movie documentary)
1989
A Tribute to Lucy (Video documentary) as
Self
1989
Bloopers Galore (Video documentary) as
Self
1989
Abbott & Costello: Live & Hilarious! (Video)
1988
Movie Bloopers (Video documentary) as
Self
1988
Entertaining the Troops (Documentary) as
Self
1988
Television (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- The Race for Television (1988) - Self
1987
Bloopermania (Video documentary) as
Self
1987
Celebrity Commercials (Video documentary) as
Self
1987
Classic Star Bloopers (Video documentary short) as
Self
1986
Classic Comedy Teams (Video documentary) as
Self
1986
Horrible Horror (Video) as
Wilbur, In clips from 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein'
1985
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers (Video documentary) as
Self
1985
Into the Night as
Wilbur Grey in 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein'
1984
The Making of The Stooges (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1984
Those Wild Bloopers (Video documentary) as
Self
1984
Terror in the Aisles (Documentary) as
Wilbur Grey (uncredited)
1984
The Philadelphia Experiment as
Wilbur (uncredited)
1984
The Great Standups (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1983
Skip E. Lowe Looks at Hollywood (TV Series documentary)
- Robert Walker Jr./Michelle Walker/Chris Costello (1983)
1983
Son of Video Yesterbloop (Video documentary) as
Self
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (Documentary) as
Self (uncredited)
1982
Oops, those Hollywood Bloopers! (Video documentary) as
Self
1982
Showbiz Goes to War (TV Movie documentary)
1982
Simon & Simon (TV Series) as
Orville
- Sometimes Dreams Come True (1982) - Orville
1982
Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (TV Movie documentary) as
Actor - 'In Society' (uncredited)
1979
The Hollywood Clowns (Video documentary)
1979
The Horror Show (TV Movie documentary)
1978
Hey, Abbott!
1978
Funny Business (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1976
Bob Hope's World of Comedy (TV Special) as
Tribute Montage
1976
That's Entertainment, Part II (Documentary) as
Clips from 'Rio Rita' (as Costello)
1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory (TV Movie documentary) as
Self - film clips
1965
Hollywood My Home Town (Documentary) as
Self
1965
Wayne and Shuster Take an Affectionate Look at... (TV Series documentary)
- The Westerns (1965)
1965
The World of Abbott and Costello as
Character in Film Clips
1964
The Big Parade of Comedy (Documentary) as
Wishy in 'Rio Rita'
1963
Hollywood and the Stars (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- The Funny Men: Part 2 (1963) - Self
1960
Project Twenty (TV Series documentary) as
Self - Comedian
- Not So Long Ago (1960) - Self - Comedian
1959
The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (TV Series) as
Self - on film in posthumous tribute
- Richard Kiley, Georgia Gibbs, Jack E. Leonard, Carole Costello (1959) - Self - on film in posthumous tribute
1954
Champs of the Chase (Short) as
Albert
1954
Oh, My Achin' Tooth! (Short) as
Lou
1954
Screen Snapshots Series 33, No. 10: Hollywood Grows Up (Documentary short) as
Film Clips Character
1953
Gobs in a Mess (Short) as
Pomeroy
1953
The Colgate Comedy Hour (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #4.5 (1953) - Self
1953
I'm the Law (TV Series) as
Self
- Husband and Wife Murder Story (1953) - Self (uncredited)
1952
Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians (Documentary short) as
Self
1951
Knights of the Bath (Short) as
Albert
1949
Fun on the Run (Short) as
Oliver [Lou, in silent versions]
1949
Kitchen Mechanics (Short) as
Oliver [Lou, in silent versions]
1948
Oysters and Muscles (Short) as
Oliver [Lou, in silent versions]
1946
Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 8: Looking Back (Short) as
Self
1944
Twenty Years After (Short)
1943
The Autobiography of a 'Jeep' (Documentary short) as
Self - in a Jeep in Parade (uncredited)

References

Lou Costello Wikipedia


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