Ruth Buzzi as her best-known character, Gladys Ormphby, on “Laugh-In” with Sam Shepard, left (the playwright was moonlighting as a drummer), and Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders ...

Ruth Ann Buzzi was born in Westerly, Rhode Island, on July 24, 1936, and raised in nearby Wequetequock Cove, Connecticut, where her father, Peter, a nationally renowned stonecutter and sculptor ...

Ruth Buzzi, who rose to fame as the frumpy and bitter Gladys Ormphby on the groundbreaking sketch comedy series "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" and made over 200 television appearances during a 45 ...