Ruth Buzzi had a distinguished television career and has made a number of other appearances in movies and TV shows. She played Margie “Pete” Peterson, a regular character on the comedy series That Girl, a friend of Marlo Thomas’ lead character.
In the science fiction program The Lost Saucer, created by Sid and Marty Krofft, Buzzi co-starred with Jim Nabors. She played Fi, one of the time-traveling androids, in this television show. 16 episodes of The Lost Saucer were broadcast between September 11, 1975, and September 2, 1976.
Buzzi co-starred in the 1979 episode of the Canadian children’s comedy You Can’t Do That on Television, also known as Whatever Turns You On.
In 1981’s Alice, where she played Chloe, the wife of a phone company employee, and in 1985’s Down to Earth, she made guest appearances on other well-known shows.
The Flip Wilson Show, The Dean Martin Music and Comedy Hour, The Carol Burnett Show, Tony Orlando and Dawn, The Monkees, Emergency!, and variety shows presented by Leslie Uggams and Glen Campbell were among the shows on which Buzzi appeared as a featured guest.
On The Gong Show, she was a celebrity judge and occasionally made appearances on game shows. In fact, Buzzi played Mrs. Wilcox in the episode “Lucy Makes a Hit with John Ritter” of Lucille Ball’s final comedy series, Life with Lucy.
What happened to Ruth Buzzy?
Did Ruth Buzzi ever marry? Yes, Kent Perkins, the actress Ruth Buzzi’s husband, revealed in a tragic social media post that she is “bedridden and incapacitated” following several strokes. On Tuesday, Perkins shared a picture of the Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In actress enjoying a slice of pie while celebrating her 85th birthday the previous year.