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Buck Henry Zuckerman Wiki Biography

Henry Zuckerman, credited as Buck Henry (born December 9, 1930), is an American actor, writer, film director, and television director. He has been nominated for an Academy Award twice, once in 1968 for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Graduate and once in 1979 for Best Director for Heaven Can Wait. 

Net Worth $3 Million
Date Of Birth December 9, 1930
Place Of Birth New York City, New York, USA
Profession Writer, Actor, Miscellaneous Crew
Spouse Irene Henry
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1426516
Quote
1 [about writer Edward Adler, a longtime friend] He was the most lovable guy I guess I ever met in my life. I don’t know anyone who knew Eddie that didn’t want to protect him, because he always seemed like an innocent. Eddie was a great example of someone who always lived close to the ground, so to speak. He wandered through life with his eye and his ear on a kind of New York that doesn’t exist anymore.
2 [about President George W. Bush] We need a president who’s fluent in at least one language.
Fact
1 Actress Ruth Alice Taylor is Buck Henry’s mother.
2 His father was from a German Jewish family. His mother was of English, Scottish, and Irish descent.
3 Directed three actors in Oscar nominated performances: Warren Beatty, Jack Warden and Dyan Cannon, all of them in Heaven Can Wait (1978).
4 Appearing in off-Broadway play, “Mother”. [July 2009]
5 Went to boarding school at Choate Rosemary Hall and graduated from Dartmouth College, where he worked on the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern humor magazine.
6 Only son of Paul Steinberg Zuckerman (1899-1966), a retired US Air Force Brigadier General who became a Wall Street broker, and actress Ruth Taylor (1905-1984), a Mack Sennett “Bathing Beauty” who starred as Lorelei Lee in the original silent version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928).
7 The producers of Saturday Night Live (1975) would almost always include a Samurai sketch when he hosted. On one episode, John Belushi accidentally cut him near the eyebrow with his Samurai sword. As a tribute to this on-air injury, the rest of the cast wore bandages over their eyebrows.
8 Only three times in Academy Award history have director-collaborators been nominated for Best Directing Oscars: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story (1961), Warren Beatty and Buck Henry for Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men (2007). (Wise/Robbins and the Coens actually won the award).
9 He became friends with Heather Robinson on-line several years ago and is now supervising a television sitcom she has co-created.
10 Selected to be the Guest Director for the 31st annual Telluride Film Festival (www.telluridefilmfestival.com) September 3 – September 6, 2004.
11 Biography in: “Who’s Who in Comedy” by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 212-213. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
12 Was member of an improvisationl theater group, The Premise, in Greenwich Village, early 1960s, along with George Segal.
13 As a young actor, he toured in regional stage version of “Life With Father”.
14 He is the founding member of Saturday Night Live (1975)’s “Five Timers Club”, and has hosted the show 10 times.
15 (1950s) He played the part of G. Clifford Prout Jr., president of the hoax organisation, the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals (SINA).
16 Screenwriter/actor.

Writer

Title Year Status Character
Get Smart 2 characters announced
The Humbling 2014 screenplay
Get Smart’s Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control 2008 Video characters – uncredited
Get Smart 2008 characters
Town & Country 2001 written by
Great Railway Journeys 1996 TV Series documentary writer – 1 episode
To Die For 1995 screenplay
Get Smart 1995 TV Series characters – 7 episodes
Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1985 TV Series writer – 1 episode
Protocol 1984 screenplay
The New Show 1984 TV Series writer – 5 episodes
First Family 1980
The Nude Bomb 1980 characters
Quark TV Series creator – 8 episodes, 1977 – 1978 written by – 1 episode, 1977
The Owl and the Pussycat 1975 TV Movie
The Day of the Dolphin 1973 screenplay
What’s Up, Doc? 1972 screenplay
Is There Sex After Death? 1971 uncredited
The Owl and the Pussycat 1970 screenplay
Catch-22 1970 screenplay
Get Smart TV Series created by – 138 episodes, 1965 – 1970 story editor – 46 episodes, 1965 – 1967 written by – 3 episodes, 1965 – 1966 teleplay by – 1 episode, 1966
Candy 1968 screenplay
The Graduate 1967 screenplay
Captain Nice TV Series written by – 2 episodes, 1967 creator – 1 episode, 1967
That Was the Week That Was 1964 TV Series 3 episodes
The Troublemaker 1964 original story / screenplay
The Garry Moore Show 1963 TV Series 1 episode
The New Steve Allen Show 1961 TV Series 1 episode

Actor

Title Year Status Character
Kiss Kiss Fingerbang 2015 Short Cat Owner
Streetcar 2013 Short Sheriff
Franklin & Bash 2013 TV Series Judge Henry Dinsdale
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 2012 TV Series Mr. Morton
On Story 2012 TV Series
A Bird of the Air 2011 Duncan Weber
Hot in Cleveland 2011 TV Series Fred
30 Rock 2007-2010 TV Series Dick Lemon
Will & Grace 2005 TV Series Leonard
The Last Shot 2004 Lonnie Bosco
Serendipity 2001 Customer at Bloomingdale’s (uncredited)
Town & Country 2001 Suttler
Lisa Picard Is Famous 2000 Buck Henry
Dilbert 1999 TV Series Dadbert
Breakfast of Champions 1999 Fred T. Barry
The Man Who Counted 1998 Short George Postlewait
It All Came True 1998 Charles Van Allsburg
I’m Losing You 1998 Phillip Dagrom
1999 1998 Mr. Goldman
The Real Blonde 1997 Dr. Leuter
Harrison Bergeron 1995 TV Movie TV producer
To Die For 1995 Mr. H. Finlaysson
Grumpy Old Men 1993 Snyder
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 1993 Dr. Dreyfus
Short Cuts 1993 Gordon Johnson
The Lounge People 1992 Lewis Louis
Mastergate 1992 TV Movie Clay Fielder
Eek!stravaganza 1992 TV Series Cupid
Tales from the Crypt 1992 TV Series George
Keep the Change 1992 TV Movie Smitty
The Player 1992 Buck Henry
Shakespeare’s Plan 12 from Outer Space 1991 The priest
The Linguini Incident 1991 Cecil
Defending Your Life 1991 Dick Stanley
Tune in Tomorrow… 1990 Father Serafim
Trying Times 1989 TV Series The Man on TV
Rude Awakening 1989 Lloyd Stool
Murphy Brown 1989 TV Series Victor Rudman
Falcon Crest 1987-1988 TV Series Foster Glenn
Aria 1987 Preston (segment “Rigoletto”)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1985 TV Series Walter Lang
The New Show 1984 TV Series Various
Eating Raoul 1982 Mr. Leech
Strong Medicine 1981
First Family 1980 Father Sandstone / TV Anchorman
Gloria 1980 Jack Dawn
Old Boyfriends 1979 Art Kopple
Heaven Can Wait 1978 The Escort
The Absent-Minded Waiter 1977 Short Bernie Cates
Quark 1977 TV Series Dignitary
The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976 Oliver Farnsworth
The Owl and the Pussycat 1975 TV Movie Felix Sherman
The Day of the Dolphin 1973 Man Standing Outside Women’s Club (uncredited)
Is There Sex After Death? 1971 Dr. Louise Manos
Taking Off 1971 Larry Tyne
The Owl and the Pussycat 1970 Man Looking Through Doubleday’s Bookstore (uncredited)
Catch-22 1970 Lt. Col. Korn
Candy 1968 Mental Patient
The Secret War of Harry Frigg 1968 Stockade Commandant
The Graduate 1967 Room Clerk
The Troublemaker 1964 T. R. Kingston
The New Steve Allen Show 1961 TV Series Regular
The Bridge 1959 English version, voice

Producer

Title Year Status Character
Quark 1977 TV Series producer – 1 episode
Captain Nice 1967 TV Series executive producer – 15 episodes

Director

Title Year Status Character
Trying Times 1989 TV Series 1 episode
First Family 1980
Heaven Can Wait 1978
I Miss Sonia Henie 1971 Short

Miscellaneous

Title Year Status Character
Get Smart 2008 consultant
Get Smart 1966 TV Series story editor – 2 episodes

Soundtrack

Title Year Status Character
Saturday Night Live 1977 TV Series performer – 1 episode

Thanks

Title Year Status Character
Bitter Sweet with Buck Henry 2016 Video documentary short special thanks
Altman 2014 Documentary special thanks
The Story of Film: An Odyssey 2011 TV Mini-Series documentary thanks – 3 episodes
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film 2002 TV Movie documentary special thanks

Self

Title Year Status Character
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Mike Nichols 2010 TV Movie Himself
Katz’s: That’s All 2010 Documentary Himself
It Came from Kuchar 2009 Documentary Himself
American Swing 2008 Documentary Himself
The Daily Show 2007 TV Series Himself – Commentator
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema 2007 Documentary Himself
Cinemaville 2007 Video documentary short Himself
The Secret History of Get Smart 2006 Video documentary short Himself
Greatest Movie Love Scenes 2006 TV Movie documentary Himself
AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Movie Quotes: America’s Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases 2005 TV Special documentary Himself
Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live 2005 TV Special documentary Himself
The 100 Most Memorable TV Moments 2004 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself
Biography 2004 TV Series documentary Himself
Bravo Profiles 2002 TV Series documentary Himself
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film 2002 TV Movie documentary Himself (uncredited)
Inside TV Land: Get Smart 2001 TV Movie documentary Himself
The Directors 2001 TV Series documentary Himself
AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Laughs: America’s Funniest Movies 2000 TV Special documentary Himself
The 2000 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards 2000 TV Special Himself – Presenter
‘Psycho’ Path 1999 Video short documentary Himself
Playboy: The Story of X 1998 Video documentary Himself – Host
Great Railway Journeys 1996 TV Series documentary Himself / Presenter
Shotgun Freeway: Drives Through Lost L.A. 1995 Documentary Himself
Late Show with David Letterman 1994 TV Series Himself
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country 1993 Documentary Himself
Indecision ’92: The Republican National Convention 1992 TV Movie Himself
Indecision ’92: The Democratic National Convention 1992 TV Movie Himself
Late Night with David Letterman 1987-1992 TV Series Himself / Himself – Guest
The Graduate at 25 1992 Documentary short Himself
The Republic Pictures Story 1991 TV Movie documentary Himself
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary 1989 TV Special Himself
Playboy Mid Summer Night’s Dream Party 1985 1985 TV Movie Himself
The New Show 1984 TV Series Himself
Saturday Night Live 1976-1980 TV Series Himself – Host / Various / Himself / …
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1969-1978 TV Series Himself / Himself – Guest
That Was the Year That Was – 1976 1976 TV Movie Himself / news reporter
The David Frost Show 1971 TV Series Himself
The Mike Douglas Show 1971 TV Series Himself – Writer
The Dick Cavett Show 1969-1971 TV Series Himself / Guest Host
The Owl and the Pussycat: On Location With – ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ 1970 Documentary short Himself
That Was the Week That Was 1964 TV Series Himself
CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite 1962 TV Series G. Clifford Prout
The New Steve Allen Show 1961 TV Series Himself
Cult Queen Mary Woronov from Warhol to Corman 2016 Documentary post-production Himself
Bitter Sweet with Buck Henry 2016 Video documentary short Himself
Buck Henry and Lawrence Turman Discuss ‘The Graduate’ 2016 Video short Himself
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles 2014 Documentary Himself
A Fuller Life 2013 Documentary Himself – Reader (segment “The Pursuit of Happiness”)
SAG Foundation Conversations 2013 TV Series Himself
American Masters 2013 TV Series documentary Himself
Casting By 2012 Documentary Himself
David Amram: The First 80 Years 2011 Documentary Himself
The Story of Film: An Odyssey 2011 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself
On Story 2011 TV Series Himself
Saturday Night Live Backstage 2011 TV Special documentary Mr. Dantley
John Belushi: Dancing on the Edge 2010 Himself
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood 2010 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself

Archive Footage

Title Year Status Character
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Gilda Radner 2005 Video Mr. DiLaBounta (uncredited)
Abel Raises Cain 2005 Documentary Himself (as G. Clifford Prout)
Saturday Night Live: The Best of John Belushi 2005 TV Special Himself (uncredited)
101 Most Unforgettable SNL Moments 2004 TV Movie Himself
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Steve Martin 1998 TV Special Himself (uncredited)
Masters of the Martial Arts Presented by Wesley Snipes 1998 TV Special documentary Himself
Saturday Night Live: Presidential Bash 1992 TV Special John Dean (uncredited)
Homage to Steve 1986 TV Movie documentary Himself
The Best of John Belushi 1985 Video Himself

Won Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
1994 Special Award Golden Globes, USA Best Ensemble Cast Short Cuts (1993)
1993 Special Volpi Cup Venice Film Festival Short Cuts (1993)
1969 BAFTA Film Award BAFTA Awards Best Screenplay The Graduate (1967)
1968 WGA Award (Screen) Writers Guild of America, USA Best Written American Comedy The Graduate (1967)
1967 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy Get Smart (1965)

Nominated Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
1996 Edgar Edgar Allan Poe Awards Best Motion Picture To Die For (1995)
1986 Edgar Edgar Allan Poe Awards Best Television Episode Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985)
1979 Oscar Academy Awards, USA Best Director Heaven Can Wait (1978)
1979 Saturn Award Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA Best Director Heaven Can Wait (1978)
1979 DGA Award Directors Guild of America, USA Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Heaven Can Wait (1978)
1971 WGA Award (Screen) Writers Guild of America, USA Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium The Owl and the Pussycat (1970)
1971 WGA Award (Screen) Writers Guild of America, USA Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium Catch-22 (1970)
1968 Oscar Academy Awards, USA Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium The Graduate (1967)
1968 Golden Globe Golden Globes, USA Best Screenplay The Graduate (1967)
1966 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy Get Smart (1965)
1965 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Individual Achievements in Entertainment – Writers That Was the Week That Was (1964)

2nd Place Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
1967 NYFCC Award New York Film Critics Circle Awards Best Screenplay The Graduate (1967)

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