Buck Henry, Who Helped Create ‘Get Smart’ and Adapt ‘The Graduate,’ Dies at 89

NYT ^ | Jan. 9, 2020 Updated 12:53 p.m. ET | By Bruce Weber

[Red Badger]

An unassuming screenwriter and actor, Mr. Henry thought up quirky characters with Mel Brooks and inhabited many more on “Saturday Night Live.”

Buck Henry, a writer and actor who exerted an often overlooked but potent influence on television and movie comedy — creating the loopy prime-time spy spoof “Get Smart” with Mel Brooks, writing the script for Mike Nichols’s landmark social satire “The Graduate” and teaming up with John Belushi in the famous samurai sketches on “Saturday Night Live” — died on Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 89.

A friend, Dianne V. Lawrence, said Mr. Henry’s wife, Irene Ramp, had called her to tell her of the death. Ms. Ramp told The Washington Post that the cause was a heart attack. The entertainment news site Deadline said he died at ‎Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, citing an unidentified family member.

[Red Badger]

Rest in Peace, Buck. Thanks for the memories.................

[ClearCase_guy]

I thought he might pass at age 90. Missed it by that much.

[Beowulf9]

“I thought he might pass at age 90. Missed it by that much”.

I think I hear Buck laughing at that one...

[Responsibility2nd]

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[Red Badger]

I see what you did there!.....................

[dfwgator]

How ’bout this? “Killing Puppies — It Doesn’t Bother Me” … That’s me, Frank Noland, and I LIKE dead puppies! Frankly, I’m totally in favor of using federally supported municipal bonds to pay for forced busing of Soviet Communists to come into your homes to kill your puppies! Give me a call, won’t you? The lines are open. Tell ME what you think about it. Dead, mangled puppies… I like ’em …

[Red Badger]

If it had been cats.............................

[Red Badger]

He might have made it to 90 if he didn’t smoke!...................

[Dawgreg]

Rest in Peace, Buck. Thanks for the memories.................

Agree.......I loved that guy.......

[Pollster1]

I asked you not to tell me that.

[Red Badger]

Next time we’ll use the Cone of Silence!...................

[Waverunner]

I tried to call him, but my shoe phone was always busy when I dialed it's number.

[Fast Moving Angel]

I thought he might pass at age 90. Missed it by that much.

Probably the best laugh I'll have today. 😂

[dhs12345]

One of the greatest SNL skits of all time....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYQTyQA38YA

[Sans-Culotte]

Would they get away with those “Uncle Roy” baby-sitting sketches today? I doubt it.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I don't think Uncle Roy would pass muster these days.

[Red Badger]

It might........................be a SITCOM...............

[dfwgator]

Joe Biden was the inspiration for Uncle Roy.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

The camera’s these days are pretty easy to hide.

[Sans-Culotte]

If Biden were a Republican SNL would be doing “Uncle Joe” sketches after every one of his reported touchy-feely incidents.