Lou Costello

Lou Costello

Nascimento : 1906-03-06, Paterson, New Jersey, USA

Morte : 1959-03-03

História

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Louis Francis Costello (March 6, 1906 – March 3, 1959) was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott. Costello was famous for his bumbling, chubby, clean-cut image that has appealed to many Americans over the decades, and for his shouted line of "HEEEEYYY ABBOTT!!." Description above from the Wikipedia article Lou Costello, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Lou Costello
Lou Costello

Filmes

Dinosaur Quiz
Learn all about dinosaurs in this informative and entertaining program with uncle Ray while his niece is calling him.
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Self (archive footage)
Uncensored. Laugh along with Hollywood's brightest stars in this hilarious compilation of bloopers from some of the biggest movies in history . You'll see stars such as Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Ronald Reagan, Marlene Dietrich, Boris Karloff, Edward G. Robinson, Errol Flynn and more. They're not so perfect after all when these flubbed moments are caught on film!
The Abbott and Costello Show: Who's On First?
Himself
Apresentando as 'rotinas' que fizeram deles lendas da comédia como “Who's On First?” e “The Lemon Bit”, esta coleção 'Best Of' digitalmente restaurada e remasterizada inclui seis dos mais amados episódios do The Abbott and Costello Show. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Shemp Cocktail: A Toast to the Original Stooge
Himself (archive footage)
A compilation that highlights works from the Three Stooges. It includes the shorts Brideless Groom, Sing a Song of Six Pants, and Malice in the Palace, also Ed Wynn's live TV Camel Comedy Caravan starring Shemp, Larry, and Moe.
Abbott and Costello: Funniest Routines, Vol. 2
Offering 1950s television audiences night after night of vaudeville-style hilarity, comic legends Abbott and Costello frequently used their hosting duties on "The Colgate Comedy Hour" as opportunities to revisit some of their most beloved routines.This wonderful collection of Bud and Lou's best bits includes "Getting Down Off a Duck's Back," "The Ice Cream Bit," "Oh! Charlie" with Lon Chaney, Jr., "Crazy Horse," "Who's on First?" in color, and more.
Abbott and Costello: Funniest Routines, Vol. 1
Join the most popular comedy team in history with a collection of their most loved classic skits! Highlights include Who's on First, The Piano Bit and Niagara Falls featuring the great Errol Flynn and many more. Also, included is the delightful Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein trailer in color for the first time. The laughter is endless with Abbott and Costello at their very best in this timeless medley of their funniest routines! Digitally re-mastered and fully restored in high definition, this is perfect for any fan. Routines include: Hole in the Wall, Mustard, The Magic Act Bit, The Mother Bit, Aspirin, Army Drill, Niagara Falls, Jonah and the Whale, 7x13 is 28, The Piano Bit, The Lemon Bit, The Dice Game, and Who's on First.
Abbott and Costello in the Movies
Himself
See America's funniest comedy team in rare movie trailers, hilarious highlights, belly-busting bloopers, and scenes from their starring feature films, all the way from first (Buck privates) to last (Dance With Me Henry). After early success in burlesque and radio, they made their movie debut with supporting roles in One Night in the Tropics and got top billing in their very next film, becoming the nation's #1 boxoffice draw of the '40s. The Andrews Sisters, Dick Powell, Shemp Howard, Martha Raye, Ella Fitzgerald, Jimmy Dorsey, Lucille Ball and Marjorie Main co-star in films like In the Navy, Rio Rita, In Society, Little Giant, and Mexican Hayride. They also go to Hollywood and Venus (not Mars), and meet Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula, the Wolf Man, Boris Karloff, the Invisible Man, Captain Kidd, Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Keystone Kops, and the Mummy.
Abbott & Costello in the Movies
Himself
The funniest moments of legendary comedy duo Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are captured in this choice collection of theatrical trailers, hit sketches, movie clips and hilarious outtakes. One of the biggest acts of the 1940s and '50s, Abbott and Costello kept audiences in stitches in a long string of films, many of which are excerpted here, including Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein and Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff.
Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed
Self (archive footage)
Documentary featured on the Classic Monster Collection and Monster Legacy Collection for The Mummy (1932).
Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters!
(archive footage)
A documentary from Universal about the movie Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein.
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
Self (archive footage)
Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a character portrayed by Lon Chaney, Jr. Monster by Moonlight! explores these movies. Rick Baker explains how the make-up was done on Chaney's character. Screenwriter Curtis Siodmak took very little from earlier werewolf legends, providing his own story for some of the films. This documentary displays clips from several other movies, including "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948) and "House of Dracula" (1945).
Abbott & Costello Meet Biography
A biography of comedian duo Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld
Self (Archive Footage)
This is an important documentary done by a great fan of Abbott and Costello - Jerry Seinfeld. This portrait of Abbott and Costello is one of the best put to film. It does more than just play clips or just pay homage to them. Seinfeld found the things that inspired them to start with.
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
Self (archival footage)
William Shatner, Liz Taylor and many more stars blow lines, lose their pants and more in this hilarious collection of movie and TV bloopers.
Terror in the Aisles
Wilbur (archive footage) (uncredited)
A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time.
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Himself (archive footage)
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Showbiz Goes to War
Archive Footage
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the American public through bond sales, morale-boosting USO tours, patriotic war dramas and escapist film fare. Comedian David Steinberg plays host for this star-studded, 90-minute documentary, which looks at the way Tinseltown helped the United States' war effort.
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Self (archive footage)
A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions spanning from the 1930s through the 1980s.
The Hollywood Clowns
(archive footage)
Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history.
Era Uma Vez em Hollywood, parte II
(archive footage)
É a sequência de Era Uma Vez em Hollywood, de 1974. A produção mostra uma retrospectiva dos principais filmes produzidos pela MGM dentre os períodos de 1930 a 1950. Neste segundo documentário, arquivistas destacaram números musicais pouco conhecidos dos arquivos da MGM, e também tributos a alguns dos times de comédia mais famosos da MGM, como os Irmãos Marx, e Laurel e Hardy, duplas românticas como Spencer Tracy e Katharine Hepburn, e uma montagem de estrelas icônicas como Clark Gable, Mickey Rooney, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, James Stewart, Lana Turner e Greta Garbo. Gene Kelly e Fred Astaire apresentam o filme e Kelly dirigiu as cenas introdutórias, como a volta dele à Paris, na qual foi rodada dois dos filmes mais famosos da MGM "Sinfonia de Paris" e "Gigi".
The Movie Orgy
Self (archival footage)
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
Hollywood My Home Town
Self (archive footage)
Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood.
The World of Abbott and Costello
Character in Film Clips (archive footage)
A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott & Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, In the Navy, Hit the Ice, Who Done It?, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Mexican Hayride, Hold That Ghost, Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, Little Giant, In Society, Ride 'Em Cowboy, The Naughty Nineties, Buck Privates Come Home, Buck Privates, Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops, Lost in Alaska, Comin' Round the Mountain, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars and Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy. - Written by Tom Weaver
The Big Parade of Comedy
(archive footage)
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
Artie Pinsetter
In one of his rare performances without Bud Abbott, Lou Costello plays a delivery boy who invents a machine which turns his girlfriend into a giantess.
Loucos São Vocês
Lou Henry
Bud and Lou are the owners of the amusement park Kiddieland. Bud, a compulsive gambler, gets in trouble with the mob, and Lou finds himself struggling to keep his adopted children. When Bud is forced to make a shady deal, Lou tries to arrange a deal with the DA, but winds up framed for murder.
Caçando Múmias no Egito
Freddie Franklin
Abbott e Costello vão até o Dr. Zoomer conseguir o emprego de acompanhantes da múmia Klaris para os Estados Unidos. Ao chegarem lá, a múmia foi roubada e o Dr. Zoomer morto, mas Lou Costello pegou o medalhão de Klaris que traz a maldição da múmia. Com isso, um grupo de ladrões querem roubar a qualquer custo o medalhão para descobrirem a tumba dos tesouros da princesa Ara, mas um grupo de sacerdotes irá protege-la.
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Willie 'Tubby' Piper
Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he has taken the identity of a foreign film director. The lads wind up as stunt doubles in film the which Gorman is now shooting, while the conman tries to have the bungling pair done away with before they realize who he really is.
Abbott and Costello Meet the Creature from the Black Lagoon
Himself
We all remember when Abbott and Costello met Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, Dracula, the Invisible Man, The Mummy and even Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. But do you remember when Abbott and Costello met The Creature? Yes, it really did happen, not on the big screen but on live television. On Sunday, February 21, 1954 Abbott and Costello hosted NBC's Colgate Comedy Hour. In a live comedy sketch, devised to promote Universal's newest monster, America witnessed the brief but memorable meeting of Abbott and Costello and the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Abbott e Costello Enfrentando o Médico e o Monstro
Tubby
Os policiais Slim e Tubby vão para Londres e conhecem um médico que apresenta uma personalidade diabólica.
Abbott e Costello no Planeta Marte
Orville
Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to Venus where they find a civilization made up entirely of women, men having been banished.
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
Captain 'Puddin' head' Feathergill
Two hapless waiters in a tavern on the Spanish Main play cupid between aristocratic Lady Jane and tavern co-worker Bruce Martindale, but the two bumpkins mix-up a love letter with Captain Kidd's treasure map of Skull Island, leading to them being kidnapped and taken off to the notorious pirate's island.
Abbott and Costello: The Drugstore
Lou Costello
Bud & Lou get jobs in Mr. Fields' Drugstore. Originally filmed as the first episode of the Abbott and Costello TV show, it was released on film and shown theatrically in certain markets.
Abbott e Costello no Alasca
George Bell
Na década de 1890 na cidade de São Francisco, dois bombeiros voluntários resgatam o garimpeiro Joe McDermott quando este tenta cometer suicídio. Por um equívoco, a polícia começa a persegui-los por suspeita de assassinato deste garimpeiro. Para provarem sua inocência eles precisam do garimpeiro vivo, porém muitos o querem morto. Acabam todos indo para o Alasca, onde podem entrar numa fria.
Abbott & Costello e o Pé de Feijão
Producer
A versão de Abbott & Costello do famoso conto de fadas, sobre um menino que troca a vaca da família por feijões mágicos.
Abbott & Costello e o Pé de Feijão
Jack / Jack Strong
A versão de Abbott & Costello do famoso conto de fadas, sobre um menino que troca a vaca da família por feijões mágicos.
Abbott and Costello Christmas Show
Costello
Christmas themed episode of the colgate comedy hour.
Bruxaria
Wilbert Smith
Al Stewart and Wilbert are magicians doing a stage act when they run into Wilbert's cousin, Dorothy McCoy. They find out that Wilbert's grandfather, Squeeze-box McCoy, had treasure hidden in the hills of Kentucky, which they go to find.
Budd Abbott & Lou Costello e o Homem Invisível
Lou Francis
Dois detetives particulares trapalhões ajudam um homem que foi acusado injustamente de assassinato e que se tornou invisível, a limpar seu nome!
Knights of the Bath
Albert (archive footage)
Short film cobbled from the Abbott & Costello feature In Society for the home movie market.
Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
Lou Hotchkiss
Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid. Bits include Lou's mirage sightings, one a New York newsboy ("they gave me a bad corner").
Frente a Frente com Assassinos
Freddie Phillips
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).
Kitchen Mechanics
Lou and Bud start their new job as live-in caretakers on a college campus by trying - very trying - to get their own quarters cleaned up.
Fun on the Run
Bixby College needs to win the girls' basketball tourney prize-money in order to survive, but a pair of gamblers have brought in some Amazonian ringers to play for the opposition and Lou, in drag, is playing for the Bixby team.
O Grito da África
Stanley Livington
Quando o estudioso e bem-educado Stanley Livingston concorda com o esquema insano do seu amigo Buzz Johnson, a dupla de trapalhões acaba participando de uma expedição às selvas africanas. Com Stanley se passando por caçador experiente, eles acompanham a exploradora Diana Emerson em busca de uma mina de diamantes escondidos. No entanto, muitos nativos e animais selvagens estão entre o caminho dos aventureiros e o tesouro.
Patuscada
Joe Bascom / Harry Fish
Two con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter.
10,000 Kids and a Cop
Self
A documentary showing the constructive approach taken by the Lou Costello, Jr. Youth Foundation in Los Angeles toward prevention of juvenile delinquency. William Bendix, as a neighborhood policeman, visits the Foundation and discovers the juveniles who used to give him trouble now engaged in sports and activities, furnished them gratis, under self-supervision. Abbott and Costello furnish a couple of bits to liven it up some.
Abbott e Costello Encontram Frankenstein
Wilbur Grey
Aboot e Costello trabalham na agência de correspondências, até que ficam responsáveis por uma carga macabra: duas grandes caixas, contendo uma o corpo de Drácula, e a outra o de Frankenstein. O plano de Drácula é dar a Frankenstein um novo cérebro, e é aí que os atrapalhados amigos entram em uma fria, pois são seduzidos por uma bela garota que trabalha para o vampiro.
The Noose Hangs High
Executive Producer
Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.
The Noose Hangs High
Homer Hinchcliffe
Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Chester Wooley
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.
Buck Privates Come Home
Herbie Brown
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
The Time of Their Lives
Horatio Prim
Two ghosts who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War return to 20th century New England to retieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.
Little Giant
Benny Miller
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Abercrombie
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.
The Naughty Nineties
Sebastian Dinwiddle
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
Here Come the Co-eds
Oliver Quackenbush
Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College. Bixby's progressive dean offers Molly a scholarship. Molly accepts on the condition that Slats and Oliver come along too as campus caretakers. But the pompous Chairman threatens to foreclose on the school's mortgage if Molly isn't expelled. Together, the trio, with the help of some new friends, concocts a scheme to raise enough money to save the school. The plan involves a bet on the Bixby basketball team, which is playing in a game rated at 20 to 1 by the local bookie. But the bookie has other plans for their dough and hires a group of ringers to step in for the opponents. All is not lost, at least while Oliver has the chance to turn things around for his friends-one way or another.
Perdidos Num Harém
Harvey Garvey
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
BANCANDO O GRANFINO
Albert Mansfield
Quando dois encanadores (Bud Abbott e Lou Costello), muito atrapalhados, são contratados para um serviço em uma casa de granfinos, eles acabam convidados para uma luxuosa festa a fantasia, por engano. Os dois veem ali a chance de finalmente entrar na alta sociedade, mas vão acabar se envolvendo em grandes confusões.
Mail Call
Filmed version of the Abbott & Costello's routine "Who's on First"
Twenty Years After
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
Pistoleiros Sem Pistola
Weejie 'Tubby' McCoy
Flash Fulton (Bud Abbott) and Weejie McCoy (Lou Costello) take pictures of a bank robbery. Lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers and accompanied by Dr. Bill Elliott (Patric Knowles) and Peggy Osborn (Elyse Knox), they also meet old friend Johnny Long (Johnny Long) and his band and singer Marcia Manning (Ginny Simms). Dr. Elliott and Peggy are being held in a remote cabin by the robbers, but Weejie rescues them by turning himself into a human snowball that becomes an avalanche that engulfs the crooks.
Alta Malandragem
Wilbur Hoolihan
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
Quem é o Culpado?
Mervin Q. Milgrim
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
Pardon My Sarong
Wellington Pflug, aka Moola
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.
Rio Rita
Wishy
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
Cavalheiros da Galhofa
Willoughby
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
Dois Aviadores Avariados
Heathcliff
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn't know what it's in for.
Segure o Fantasma
Ferdinand Jones
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
Marinheiros de Água Doce
Pomeroy Watson
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world. Aboard the Alabama, Tommy meets up with Smoky and Pomeroy, who help hide him from Dorothy, who hatches numerous schemes in an attempt to photograph Tommy/Russ being a sailor.
Ordinário, Marche!
Herbie Brown
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.
One Night in the Tropics
Costello
Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancée, Cynthia. The upcoming marriage is jeopardized by Steve's ex-girlfriend, Mickey, and Cynthia's disapproving Aunt Kitty. The policy is underwritten by a nightclub owner, Roscoe, who sends two enforcers - Abbott and Costello - to ensure that the wedding occurs as planned.
Cossacos!
Extra (uncredited)
Stirring romance, hard riding, desperate fighting with the Cossacks playing their game of war and chivalry. A mighty picturization of Count Leo Tolstoi's famous novel of the same name.
The Battle of the Century
Boxing Hall extra (uncredited)
Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.
The Fair Co-Ed
Marion go off to college where she joins the basketball team to be near the coach, Bob. She instantly makes a rival of Betty, who's also interested in Bob.
O Cavalheiro dos Amores
Extra (uncredited)
Durante o reinado de Luís XIII, um adolescente arrogante chamado Bardelys tornou-se famosa graças a suas conquistas amorosas.