He rose to prominence in 1962 with his chilling performance as Edwin Flagg in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Victor Charles Buono was born on February 3, 1938, in San Diego, California, to Myrtle and Victor F. Buono, the latter a former police officer who was later convicted of conspiracy and murder in 1959. Buono attended St. Augustine High School and became involved with San Diego’s Globe Theater Players, where he gained experience in Shakespearean drama. Though sometimes reported to have attended military school or Northwestern University,
Mannix was an American detective television series that aired on CBS from September 16, 1967, to April 13, 1975. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link, and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller (also of Mission: Impossible fame), the series starred Mike Connors as Joe Mannix, a rugged, intuitive private investigator operating first in a high-tech corporate setting and later as an old-school solo detective.
