Ruth Buzzi Biography

Fast Facts

• The original oil paintings she paints and donates to charity have sold for over $6,000
• The Pasadena Playhouse of the Performing Arts honored her with a Lifetime Achievement Award
• Took cosmetology classes in case she needed a backup career since she wanted to go into the risky business of acting, but before she even graduated from college she had her union card in musical and comedy revues
• Appeared in every episode of "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," the only featured player to do so
• Some of her most memorably recurring characters were Hollywood gossip columnist Busy-Buzzi, cocktail-loving Doris Sidebottom, an inconsiderate flight attendant and the purse-wielding spinster Gladys Ormphby
• In her retirement, she began raising Black Angus cattle, longhorn cattle and quarter horses at a ranch near Fort Worth, Texas
• Vehicles from her extensive automobile collection have been displayed at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles