Victor Buono "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962). The film starred Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, and Buono played the ne'er-do-well musical accompanist Edwin Flagg, a performance for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture. Shortly after "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?", Buono appeared in "Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (1964) as Big Sam Hollis, the father of Bette Davis, who played the title role. The film was also directed by Aldrich. In the Biblical epic "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965), Buono portrayed
Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats? an Indian princess whose lovers always die. The film itself, despite over 14 hours of footage, was never finished. In 1984 it was edited to approx. 32 minutes and released on a VHS videocassette titled Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats?; the companion soundtrack was also released the same year. Another re-edited version (approx. 17 minutes) of the footage was released on the "Icky Flix" DVD in 2002. These bonus tracks were included on the 1991 CD release. They were originally from their soundtrack to the film "The Census Taker" Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats? The Residents had begun a movie