Name: Buck Henry
Date of Birth: 9 December 1930 Son of actress Ruth Taylor. Screenwriter/actor. He played the part of G. Clifford Prout Jr., president of the hoax organisation, the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals (SINA). [1950s] Member of "Saturday Night Live" (1975)'s "Five Timers Club" by hosting the show 10 times. As a young actor, he toured in regional stage version of "Life With Father". Was member of an improvisationl theater group, The Premise, in Greenwich Village, early 1960s, along with George Segal. ... Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 212-213. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387 Selected to be the Guest Director for the 31st annual Telluride Film Festival (www.telluridefilmfestival.com) September 3 - September 6, 2004. He became friends with Heather Robinson on-line several years ago and is now supervising a television sitcom she has co-created. 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). The producers of Saturday Night Live 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. Only son of Paul Steinberg Zuckerman (1899-1966), a retired Brigadier General of the Air Force 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). Went to boarding school at Choate Rosemary Hall and graduated from Dartmouth College, where he worked on the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern humor magazine. Read more Buck Henry movies (actor)
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