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 the Likely Lads? show, "Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?" was made in colour. Also, "The Likely Lads" had been quite "stagy" (in the theatrical sense) in its format, being studio bound with little in the way of location filming. The 1970s series made extensive use of location filming in and around the north-east. In terms of humour, the two shows are very different. "The Likely Lads" had been a broad comedy, full of jokes and obvious gags, whereas "Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?" used much subtler humour, derived from the dialogue and characterisation, often interspersed with sentimentality and even touches of