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  • Category: Radio
  • Star rank: 737
  • Address:
    6796 Hollywood Blvd
  • Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing west
  • GPS location:
    34.101427, -118.338535

Lou Costello

Next star: Joseph Schildkraut
Previous stretch: Art Laboe

Biography

The comedy duo Bud Abbot (left) and Lou Costello (right) c. 1942

Source: Wikipedia

Louis Francis “Lou” 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!!”

Fact file

  • Born: Louis Francis Cristillo March 6, 1906 Paterson, New Jersey, U.S.
  • Died: March 3, 1959 (aged 52) Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
  • Cause of death: Heart attack
  • Occupation: Actor, Comedian
  • Years active: 1926–59
  • Spouse: Anne Battler (1934–1959)

Read more about Lou Costello at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database

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    6490 Hollywood Blvd Hollywood Blvd, south side, between Wilcox and Cahuenga
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    6276 Hollywood Blvd Hollywood Blvd, south side, between Vine and Argyle

Hollywood Blvd, south side, between Highland and McCadden

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