As per our current Database, Buddy Lester has been died on 4 October, 2002 at Los Angeles, California, USA.
When Buddy Lester die, Buddy Lester was 87 years old.
| Popular As | Buddy Lester |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Age | 87 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Capricorn |
| Born | January 16, 1915 (Chicago, Illinois, USA) |
| Birthday | January 16 |
| Town/City | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Nationality | USA |
Buddy Lester’s zodiac sign is Capricorn. According to astrologers, Capricorn is a sign that represents time and responsibility, and its representatives are traditional and often very serious by nature. These individuals possess an inner state of independence that enables significant progress both in their personal and professional lives. They are masters of self-control and have the ability to lead the way, make solid and realistic plans, and manage many people who work for them at any time. They will learn from their mistakes and get to the top based solely on their experience and expertise.
Buddy Lester was born in the Year of the Rabbit. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rabbit enjoy being surrounded by family and friends. They’re popular, compassionate, sincere, and they like to avoid conflict and are sometimes seen as pushovers. Rabbits enjoy home and entertaining at home. Compatible with Goat or Pig.
Buddy Lester, stand-up comedian and character actor on television and in motion pictures was born in Chicago and became a fixture on the international nightclub circuit for seven decades. In Las Vegas, he opened for Frank Sinatra several times and appeared in the Rat Pack films Ocean's 11 (1960) and Sergeants 3 (1962) .
Lester also appeared with Jerry Lewis in five films,The Ladies Man (1961), The Nutty Professor (1963), The Patsy (1964), Three on a Couch (1966) and The Big Mouth (1967). Lester made his film debut playing himself as an entertainer in The Gene Krupa Story (1959) starring Sal Mineo.
The comedian proved even more popular on television, and was a part of the regular cast of The New Phil Silvers Show (1963). Lester also appeared in several episodes of the police series' Adam-12 (1968) and Barney Miller (1975) and was also a familiar face on Love, American Style (1969), The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1971), The Odd Couple (1970) and Starsky and Hutch (1975).
A handsome man with dark hair, Lester could assume mockingly menacing personas because of a somewhat mysterious scar to the right of his mouth. He delighted in making up various stories about how he acquired it.
He frequently said he got the scar when he was blown off a barge at Guadalcanal. He once used it to intimidate beefy rabble-rousers at a nearby table when he was watching friends on stage in a Chicago nightclub.
And in a New York hotel, he told a group of Germans that he got the scar in a fencing duel while he was a student in Heidelberg. The truth, he confessed to the now-defunct Los Angeles Mirror in 1961, was: "I fell off a chair onto a broken water glass when I was 3 years old.
" Lester once considered plastic surgery to erase the mark, but changed his mind after a movie makeup artist liked it so much that he enlarged it for Lester's scenes.Lester died Friday Oct. 4, 2002 of cancer in a Van Nuys nursing home.
He was 86. Lester was survived by his son, Paul; daughter, Sylvia Jensen; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
