Lou Costello
Born: 1906-03-06 in Paterson, New Jersey, USA
Died: 1959-03-03
Known For: Acting
Biography
Louis Francis 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!!."
Filmography
2025
- Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies as Self - (archive footage)
2013
- Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored as Self (archive footage)
2011
- Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes as Self (archive footage)
- The Abbott and Costello Show: Who's On First? as Self (archive footage)
2009
- Studio 42 with Bob Costas as Self (archive footage)
2008
- Shemp Cocktail: A Toast to the Original Stooge as Self (archive footage)
2000
- The Many Faces of Dracula as Wilbur Gray (archive footage)
- Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed as Self (archive footage)
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters! as (archive footage)
1999
- Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man' as Self (archive footage)
1997
- Vaudeville as Self (archive footage) (as Abbott & Costello)
- The Best of Abbott & Costello Live
1996
- Abbott & Costello Meet Biography as Self (archive footage)
1994
- Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld as Self (Archive Footage)
1992
- Dracula in the Movies as (archive footage)
1991
- Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Wilbur Grey / Tubby (archive footage)
1990
- Abbott and Costello in the Movies as Himself
- Abbott & Costello in the Movies as Self (archive footage)
1986
- Classic Comedy Teams as Self (archive footage)
1985
- Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers as Self (archive footage)
1983
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1982
- Showbiz Goes to War as (archive footage)
- Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! as Self (archive footage)
1979
- The Horror Show as (archive footage)
- The Hollywood Clowns as (archive footage)
1978
- Hey Abbott as Self
1976
- That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
- Bob Hope's World of Comedy as Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)
1972
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
1970
- Brasileiros em Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
1968
- The Movie Orgy as Self (archive footage)
1965
- The World of Abbott and Costello as Character in Film Clips (archive footage)
1964
- The Big Parade of Comedy as Wishy in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage)
1959
- The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock as Artie Pinsetter
1957
- The Lux Show as Self
1956
- The Steve Allen Show as Self
- Dance with Me, Henry as Lou Henry
1955
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy as Freddie Franklin
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops as Willie 'Tubby' Piper
1953
- General Electric Theater as Neal Andrews
- Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Tubby
- Abbott and Costello Go to Mars as Orville
1952
- The Abbott and Costello Show as Lou Costello
- Lost in Alaska as George Bell
- Jack and the Beanstalk as Jack / Jack Strong
- Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd as Captain 'Puddin' head' Feathergill
- Abbott and Costello Christmas Show as Costello
1951
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man as Lou Francis
- Comin' Round the Mountain as Wilbert Smith
- Knights of the Bath as Albert (archive footage)
1950
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self - Host
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion as Lou Hotchkiss
1949
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff as Freddie Phillips
- Africa Screams as Stanley Livington
- Kitchen Mechanics
- Fun on the Run
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein as Wilbur Grey
- Mexican Hayride as Joe Bascom / Harry Fish
- The Noose Hangs High as Homer Hinchcliffe
- 10,000 Kids and a Cop as Self
- Oysters and Muscles as Oliver
1947
- The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap as Chester Wooley
1946
- The Time of Their Lives as Horatio Prim
- Little Giant as Benny Miller
1945
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood as Abercrombie
- Here Come the Co-Eds as Oliver Quackenbush
- The Naughty Nineties as Sebastian Dinwiddle
1944
- Twenty Years After as (archive footage)
- Lost in a Harem as Harvey Garvey
- In Society as Albert Mansfield
1943
- Hit the Ice as Weejie 'Tubby' McCoy
- It Ain't Hay as Wilbur Hoolihan
1942
- Rio Rita as Wishy
- Who Done It? as Mervin Q. Milgrim
- Pardon My Sarong as Wellington Pflug, aka Moola
1941
- Buck Privates as Herbie Brown
- Hold That Ghost as Ferdinand Jones
- Ride 'Em Cowboy as Willoughby
- In the Navy as Pomeroy Watson
- Keep 'Em Flying as Heathcliff
1940
- One Night in the Tropics as Costello
1928
- The Cossacks as Extra (uncredited)
- Circus Rookies as Extra
1927
- The Battle of the Century as Boxing Hall Extra (uncredited)
- The Fair Co-Ed
1926
- Bardelys the Magnificent as Extra (uncredited)