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Lou Costello
Birthday: March 6, 1906

Birth Place: Paterson, New Jersey, USA
Height: 5' 5"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for Lou Costello. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

 

Biography

Born and raised in Paterson, New Jersey (a city he invariably mentioned in almost all his movies and TV shows), Lou Costello dropped out of high school and headed west to break into the movies. He got a job as a carpenter at MGM and Warners. He went from there to stuntman and then to vaudeville as a comic. In 1931, while working in Brooklyn, his straight man became ill and the theater cashier, Bud Abbott, filled in for him. The two formed their famous comedy team and, through the 1930s, they worked burlesque, minstrel shows, vaudeville and movie houses. In 1938 they got national exposure through the Kate Smith Hour radio show, and signed with Universal Pictures the next year. They debuted in One Night in the Tropics (1940). Their scene-stealing performances in that film landed them their own picture the next year, Buck Privates (1941), with The Andrews Sisters. It was a runaway hit, grossing what was then a company record million on a 0,000 budget. In 1942 they topped a poll of Hollywood stars. They had their own radio show (ABC, 1941-46, NBC, 1946-49) and TV show ("The Abbott and Costello Show" (1952)). After the war their movies shifted formula to one in which they met various monsters or found themselves in exotic locations. The team split up in 1957, with both winding up completely out of money after troubles with the Internal Revenue Service. After that Lou appeared in a few television shows and the movie The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959), released a few months after he died.

Movie Credits
The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959)
Dance with Me Henry (1956)
[ Bud Abbott ]
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
[ Bud Abbott ]
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955)
[ Bud Abbott ]
Episode #4.28 (1954)
[ Bud Abbott ]
Episode #4.25 (1954)
[ Bud Abbott ]
Fireman Save My Child (1954)
[ Billy Barty ][ Bud Abbott ]
Episode #3.32 (1953)
[ Bud Abbott ]
Episode #3.17 (1953)
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)
[ Harry Shearer ][ Bud Abbott ][ Ed Fury ]
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
[ Boris Karloff ][ Bud Abbott ]
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)
[ Charles Laughton ][ Bud Abbott ]
Lost in Alaska (1952)
[ Bud Abbott ]
Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
[ Mel Blanc ][ Bud Abbott ]
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
[ William Frawley ][ Bud Abbott ]
Comin' Round the Mountain (1951)
[ Bud Abbott ]
Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)
[ Bud Abbott ]
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
[ Boris Karloff ][ Bud Abbott ]
Africa Screams (1949)
[ Bud Abbott ]
Mexican Hayride (1948)
[ Bud Abbott ]
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
[ Vincent Price ][ Bela Lugosi ][ Lon Chaney Jr. ][ Bud Abbott ]
The Noose Hangs High (1948)
[ Bud Abbott ]
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947)
[ Bud Abbott ]
Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
[ Bud Abbott ]
The Time of Their Lives (1946)
[ Bud Abbott ][ Johnny Crawford ]
Little Giant (1946)
[ Bud Abbott ]
Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945)
[ Bud Abbott ]
The Naughty Nineties (1945)
[ Ben Johnson ][ Bud Abbott ]
Here Come the Co-eds (1945)
[ Lon Chaney Jr. ][ Bud Abbott ]
Lost in a Harem (1944)
[ Bud Abbott ]
In Society (1944)
[ Bud Abbott ]
Hit the Ice (1943)
[ Bud Abbott ]
It Ain't Hay (1943)
[ Bud Abbott ]
Who Done It? (1942)
[ Bud Abbott ][ William Bendix ]
Pardon My Sarong (1942)
[ Bud Abbott ]
Rio Rita (1942)
[ Bud Abbott ]
Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942)
[ Bud Abbott ]
Screen Snapshots Series 21, No. 6 (1942)
[ Glenn Ford ]
Keep 'Em Flying (1941)
[ Bud Abbott ]
Hold That Ghost (1941)
[ Bud Abbott ]
In the Navy (1941)
[ Bud Abbott ]
Buck Privates (1941)
[ Bud Abbott ]
One Night in the Tropics (1940)
[ William Frawley ][ Bud Abbott ]
The Cossacks (1928)
Circus Rookies (1928)
Rose-Marie (1928)
The Fair Co-Ed (1927)
[ Joel McCrea ]
The Taxi Dancer (1927)
The Battle of the Century (1927)
[ Stan Laurel ]
Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)
[ John Wayne ]

Trivia

  • Founded the Television Corporation of America production company which produced "The Abbott and Costello Show" (1952) and "I'm the Law" (1953).
  • His only son, Lou Jr, tragically drowned just days before his first birthday [1942]
  • Father of Carole Costello.
  • Brother of actor Pat Costello.
  • Brother-in-law of actor Joe Kirk.
  • Son of associate producer Sebastian Cristillo.
  • He had a habit of taking any prop or furniture item from a set that took his fancy. Once, when trying to re-shoot a scene, the director had to have Lou bring back a chair he had decided to take home.
  • Pictured on one of five 29¢ US commemorative postage stamps celebrating famous comedians, issued in booklet form 29 August 1991. He is shown with partner Bud Abbott. The stamp designs were drawn by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. The other comedians honored in the set are Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy; Edgar Bergen (with alter ego Charlie McCarthy); Jack Benny; and Fanny Brice.
  • At his own insistance, profits earned from the "Abbott and Costello" act were split 60-40, favoring his partner Bud Abbott. Costello stated "Comics are a dime a dozen. Good straight men are hard to find."
  • He and Bud Abbott are the only two non-sportsmen honored in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, USA, for their "Who's On First" routine. However, they are not members of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
  • In 1994 a life-size bronze statue of Costello holding a bat and wearing his trademark derby was placed in a downtown park in his hometown of Paterson, New Jersey.
  • Abbott and Costello are known in Italy as "Gianni and Pinotto", Abbott being Gianni and Costello being Pinotto.
  • He had only one starring role in a feature film without Bud Abbott, The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959). He died before it was released.
  • With Bud Abbott, starred on ABC (1941-1946) and NBC (1946-1949) Radio's "The Abbott and Costello Show."
  • Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith; pg. 1-3. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
  • Radio catchphrase: "I'm a bad boy."
  • In 1943 he was stricken with rheumatic fever. This halted the production of any new Abbott and Costello features for over a year. The disease, which normally strikes children, damaged his heart and led to the heart attack that ultimately killed him at such a young age.
  • He and Bud Abbott were so popular that there was an "Abbott and Costello" comic book that was published for about 10 years until their partnership ended in 1956.
  • In 1959, he was set to star in the comedy series, "It Pays to Be Ignorant" until his untimely death.
  • Former amateur boxer
  • Was to have starred in a film based on the life of former New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. The project was still in the talking stages at the time of his death.
  • Grandfather of Marki Costello.
  • He and partner Bud Abbott made their debut as a comedy team in One Night in the Tropics (1940), although Costello had appeared in several silent films in the late 1920s as a stuntman and extra.
  • Along with partner Bud Abbott performed the "Who's on first" routine for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
  • In September, 2003, Montclair State University in New Jersey dedicated a building in their new residence hall complex as "Abbott and Costello Center", after Lou and his partner Bud Abbott
  • Costello was a great admirer of Charles Chaplin. He claimed to have seen Shoulder Arms (1918) 30 times and The Gold Rush (1925) 16 times, and attempted - without luck - to buy the screen rights to The Kid (1921) from Chaplin.
  • Mentioned his hometown of Paterson, New Jersey, at least once in every one of his films.

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