Ruth Buzzi, famous for his work as a bachelor brandishing Gladys Ormphby handbags on “Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in”, died on Thursday, his family announced on Friday. The actor was 88 years old.
“Ruth Buzzi died peacefully in his sleep at home in Texas,” read the note on Facebook. “She was in palliative care for several years with Alzheimer's disease.”
Buzzi's husband for over 40 years, Kent Perkins, Announced in July 2022 that she had undergone “strokes” who left her a stifling and invalid bed.
“I live with an attitude of gratitude for 43 years of marriage to my best friend, the biggest person I have ever met, the one and only Ruth Buzzi,” he wrote at the time on social networks. “Her love for others does not know any limits, and she has spent a life making people smile.”
She could still speak, understand and recognize her friends and loved ones at that time, he said.
Early Thursday, he wrote on Facebook that Buzzi had “asked to thank you all for being so kind to her for so many years. She wants you to know that she was likely to make these shows that you watched them. ”
The interpreter was born on July 24, 1936 in the Rhode Island and grew up in Connecticut. She signed up at the Pasadena Playhouse College of Theater Arts, which was affiliated with the Pasadena Playhouse in southern California From 1928 to 1969 And had more than 5,000 students over the years.
She was in each episode of “Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in” by NBC (1967-73), where she refined her comic role as a bachelor of park, and was among many distribution members to pronounce the line “Sock it to me. This came after Buzzi became a must on television in the late 1960s with appearances on “The Monkees” (1967) and “The Steve Allen Comedy Hour” (1967) and a game on “this girl” (1967-68).
“You can not find anyone funny than Goldie Hawn or Ruth Buzzi or Arte Johnson”, the executive creator and producer “Laugh-in” George Schlatter said to The Times in 2019.
Buzzi herself told Times in 2011 to work with John Wayne in the variety show, including in a sketch where Gladys was not a bachelor.
“John Wayne loved us so much. He would do almost everything you would ask him to do. He made a sketch where he was Gladys' husband,” she said, referring to his famous character. “They made me wear a small and small cowboy hat and inexpensive rifles. I had to hit him, and I kept hitting him while waiting for them to say the cup. I turned around and I said:” Please, I don't want to hit this man. “It was so funny that they put (aside) in the show.”
Among her most recent acting credits were the 2009 film “City of Shoulders and Nose”, “Fallen Angels” (2006) and several episodes of “passions” (2003), and she played Suzie Kabloozie in 86 episodes of “Sesame Street”. Her final credit came in 2021, when she played Agnes in the film “One Month Out”.
This story develops and will be updated.
The former staff editor Times, Lauren Beale, contributed to this report.
