Bud Abbott (1895-1974) and Lou Costello (1908?-1959), a popular
American comedy
team who, beginning in the 1920s, performed on
stage, radio, television as well as in
motion pictures.
Abbott played the fasttalking swindler and Costello the
baby-faced, simple- minded
sucker.
Abbott and Costello made more than thirty films and continued in
partnership into the mid-fifties.