Victor Charles Buono was an American actor, comic, and briefly a recording artist. He was known for playing the villain King Tut in the television series Batman (1966–1968) and musician Edwin Flagg in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), the latter of which earned him Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations. He was a busy actor from his late teens until his death at the age of 43 and, with his large size and sonorous voice, he made a career of playing men much older than he was.
Buono in 1972
Robert Conrad as special agent Jim West and Victor Buono guest-starring as a Chinese merchant from the premiere of the television series The Wild Wild West.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (film)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is a 1962 American psychological horror thriller film directed and produced by Robert Aldrich, from a screenplay by Lukas Heller, based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Henry Farrell. The film stars Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, and features the major film debut of Victor Buono. It follows an aging former child star tormenting her paraplegic sister, a former film star, in an old Hollywood mansion.
Theatrical release poster
Bette Davis (left) as Baby Jane Hudson and Joan Crawford as her sister, Blanche Hudson
Image: BETTE Davis (cropped)
Image: Joan Crawford 1936 Hurrell