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  • NAME: Lou Costello
  • OCCUPATION: Film Actor, Television Actor
  • BIRTH DATE: March 06, 1906
  • DEATH DATE: March 03, 1959
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Paterson, New Jersey
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Los Angeles, California
  • Originally: Louis Francis Cristillo

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Working with Bud Abbott, Lou Costello was part of one of most popular comedy duos of the 20th century.

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Personal Life

Costello had been married to wife Anne since 1934 and together they had four children. He had been predeceased by his only son, Lou Jr., who had drowned in 1943. In his honor, Costello had established the Lou Costello Jr. Youth Foundation. One of his three daughters, Chris, wrote a biography of her father entitled Lou's on First (1982).

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