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Bud Abbott
American comedian and actor (1897–1974)
William Alexander "Bud" Abbott (October 2, 1897[a] – April 24, 1974) was an American comedian, actor and producer.
He was best known as the straight man half of the comedy duo Abbott and Costello.[2]
Early life
Abbott was born in Asbury Park, New Jersey, on October 2, 1897,[1] into a show business family.[2][3] His parents, Rae Fisher and Harry Abbott, had met while working for the Barnum and Bailey Circus.
She was a bareback rider of German Jewish background[4] and he was a concessionaire and forage agent.[2] Bud was the third of the couple's four children. When Bud was a toddler, the family relocated to Harlem, then to the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, and his father became a longtime advance man for the Columbia Burlesque Wheel.[2]
During the summer, when burlesque was on hiatus, his father worked at Dreamland Park in Coney Island.