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- Buddy
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- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Hardy Rawls was born on November 18, 1952 in Florida, USA. He is an actor, known for Cape Fear (1991), The Adventures of Pete & Pete (1992) and See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989).
- Hardy grew up in Sanford, Florida and graduated from Seminole High School after high school served in the Navy, then attended Seminole State College. It was here where he did his first play and went on to Florida Atlantic University and got a BFA. In 1978 his father passed away and he went home to Orlando and got his first commercial and later went to UCLA. He then went on to NYC where he lived for thirty tears and did numerous commercials all thru the 1980s. In the 1990s he starred as Pete's Dad Don Wrigley on the Nickelodeon series The Adventures of Pete and Pete, one of his favorite roles.
- He also appeared in the film See No Evil, Hear No Evil with Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder in the fight with Richard Pryor. Hardy had to grab him in a bear hug and take Mr. Pryor off camera to floor mat after the scene Hardy asked, "Are you OK, Mr. Pryor?" and he answered, "My wife doesn't even hug me like that". He most recently filmed the movies Walt Before Mickey as Walt's family doctor who gave him his first loan for his animation studio which was filmed in Sanford and Deland, Florida.
- Replaced Gordon Jump as "Ol' Lonely", the Maytag repairman in 2003.
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