Buck Henry - Famous Screenwriter

Buck Henry Net Worth

$5,000,000

Buck Henry, a Famous American actor, writer, and director had a net worth of $5 million before he passed away at the age of 89 in January 202. Buck Henry is known for his notable works as an actor and writer for movies and tv shows, including The Graduate, Heaven Can Wait, and The New Show.

Key facts:

  • Buck Henry was an accomplished American actor, writer, and director who died in January 202.
  • He participated in a humorous prank on the public in the early 196s by impersonating the president of the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals named G. Clifford Prout.
  • Buck Henry was renowned for his appearances in TV shows, including The New Steve Allen Show and The New Show, and movies such as The Graduate, Heaven Can Wait, and Short Cuts.
  • Buck Henry's work as a writer for the entertainment industry was distinguished by his numerous award nominations and wins. He was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Writing (The Graduate in 1968) and Best Directing (Heaven Can Wait), won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1967 for Get Smart, and took home a Golden Globe Award for Short Cuts in 1994.

Basic Information About Buck Henry

Full NameBuck Henry
CategoryCelebrities β€Ί Actors
ProfessionsActor, Television Producer, Screenwriter, Film Director, Television Director
Net worth$5,000,000
Date of birth1930-12-09
Place of birthNew York City
Date of death2020-01-08 (aged 89)
NationalityUnited States of America
EducationDartmouth College
Curiosities and TrademarksCap and Glasses
FatherSteinberg Zuckerman
MotherRuth Taylor
GenderMale
Social Mediaβ†—οΈŽ Wikipedia β†—οΈŽ IMDb

What Movie Awards did Buck Henry win?


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Buck Henry awards

Award Name State Movie / Series Name Year
WGA Award (Screen) - Best Drama Adapted from Another MediumNomineeCatch-221971
Edgar - Best Motion PictureNomineeTo Die For1996
Special Award - WinnerShort Cuts1994
DGA Award - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion PicturesNomineeHeaven Can Wait1979
WGA Award (Screen) - Best Comedy Written Directly for the ScreenWinnerWhat's Up, Doc?1973
Edgar - Best Television EpisodeNomineeAlfred Hitchcock Presents1986

Buck Henry roles

Movie / Series Role
The GraduateWriter
The GraduateRoom Clerk
The PlayerBuck Henry
Catch-22Writer
Catch-22Colonel Korn
To Die ForWriter
To Die ForMr. H. Finlaysson
The Man Who Fell to EarthOliver Farnsworth
Grumpy Old MenSnyder
Get SmartWriter
SerendipityCustomer at Bloomingdale's (uncredited)
Short CutsGordon Johnson
Heaven Can WaitDirector
Heaven Can WaitThe Escort
Defending Your LifeDick Stanley
AriaPreston (segment "Rigoletto")
What's Up, Doc?Writer
GloriaJack Dawn
CandyWriter
CandyMental Patient
Will & GraceLeonard 1 episode, 2005
Law & Order: Special Victims UnitMr. Morton 1 episode, 2012
Tales from the CryptGeorge 1 episode, 1992
30 RockDick Lemon 2 episodes, 2007-2010
Saturday Night LiveSelf - Host / ... 11 episodes, 1976-1980
Alfred Hitchcock PresentsWriter
Alfred Hitchcock PresentsWalter Lang 1 episode, 1985
Franklin & BashJudge Henry Dinsdale 2 episodes, 2013
QuarkWriter
QuarkWriter
QuarkDignitary (uncredited) unknown episodes
Hot in ClevelandFred 3 episodes, 2011
Get SmartWriter
Get SmartWriter
Get SmartWriter
Get SmartWriter
Murphy BrownDr. Victor Rudman 1 episode, 1989
The Daily ShowSelf - Commentator 2 episodes, 2007
The Dick Cavett ShowSelf - Guest / ... 3 episodes, 1969-1971

Buck Henry's Quotes

  • [about President George W. Bush] We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
  • [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.
  • [on his short-lived career as a stand-up comic] I never liked working in places where people drank and yelled at me.
  • I don't like to write with people because if they aren't as funny as me I hate them and if they are funnier than me I hate them.

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Interesting Facts about Buck Henry

  1. Screenwriter/actor.
  2. (1950s) He played the part of G. Clifford Prout Jr., president of the hoax organisation, the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals (SINA).
  3. He is the founding member of Saturday Night Live (1975)'s "Five Timers Club", and has hosted the show 10 times.
  4. As a young actor, he toured in regional stage version of "Life With Father".
  5. Was member of an improvisational theater group, The Premise, in Greenwich Village, early 1960s, along with George Segal.
  6. Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 212-213. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
  7. Selected to be the Guest Director for the 31st annual Telluride Film Festival (www.telluridefilmfestival.com) September 3 - September 6, 2004.
  8. He became friends with Heather Robinson on-line several years ago and is now supervising a television sitcom she has co-created.
  9. 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).
  10. 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.
  11. 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).
  12. Went to boarding school at Choate Rosemary Hall and graduated from Dartmouth College, where he worked on the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern humor magazine.
  13. Appearing in off-Broadway play, "Mother". [July 2009]
  14. Directed three actors in Oscar nominated performances: Warren Beatty, Jack Warden and Dyan Cannon, all of them in Heaven Can Wait (1978).
  15. His father was from a family of German Jewish and English Jewish descent. His mother had English, as well as Scottish, Irish, and German, ancestry.
  16. Actress Ruth Taylor is Buck Henry's mother.

Additional information of Buck Henry

ZodiacSagittarius
Lucky Number7
Lucky StoneTurquoise
Lucky ColorOrange
Best Match for MarriageLeo, Aquarius
Eye Colorblack
Hair Colorbrown

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