Kent Perkins: Inside the Life Ruth Buzzi’s husband

Kent Perkins is the husband of Ruth Buzzi. Kent Perkins’s wife is a retired American actress and comedienne. She is famous for her performances on the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In from 1968 to 1973, for which she won a Golden Globe Award and received five Emmy nominations. She has also appeared on stage, in films, and on television. Buzzi has been married twice, Who is Ruth Buzzi’s husband?

Kent Perkins: Bio Summary

Who is Ruth Buzzi’s husband?

Kent Perkins and Ruth got married in 1978 in a beautiful wedding ceremony in the presence of their friends, families, and loved ones. Before she walked down the aisle with Perkins, the actress was married to Basil Keko. According to Prabook, Perkins was born on February 11, 1948, in Alexandria, Louisiana, United States. He is the son of Dee M. Junior and M. Elaine (Posey) Perkins. As of 2023, he is 75 years old. He is of German descent.

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The husband of the actress appears to have spent much of his early life in Texas. He is a graduate of Tarrant County College, Texas Wesleyan College, and the University of North Texas.

Ruth Buzzi and her husband married on 10 December 1978, a year before Ruth played Aunt Minerva in Legends Of The Superheroes, and various roles in You Can’t Do That On Television and Whatever Turns You On. 12 years his wife’s junior, Kent Perkins and Ruth don’t have any children.

How did Ruth Buzzi meet her husband?

According to Providence journal, Ruth met her husband, Perkins, on the set of a TV show in 1977, and the two love birds had a Vegas wedding two years later and has been inseparable ever since. The couple are both animal lovers and pledged their support for the Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch for many years.

“Instead of listening to managers and agents, I get to hear cows mooing, roosters crowing and the pitter-patter of little duck feet down by our beautiful lake here at the ranch,” The comedienne told Closer in a 2015 interview. “By the way, raising ducks isn’t necessarily what it’s quacked up to be!” She lives with her husband Kent Perkins on a 600-acre cattle and horse ranch near Stephenville.

 Revealing the secret to her lasting marriage to her husband of more than four decades, Ruth Buzzi said -“Separate houses! No joke, we’ve almost always had his-and-hers houses, but we always stayed together in one or the other,” she told Closer Weekly. “It worked out great, and we seldom felt we had to go anywhere for a vacation because when we got bored at one house, we flipped over to the other one.”

Ruth Buzzi and her husband Kent Perkins are also Vintage car collectors per HITC. The couple’s vintage car collection focuses (though not exclusively) on post-war English vehicles, including Bentleys and Jaguars. Buzzi and Perkins have been collecting Rolls-Royces since the beginning of their marriage. By 2003, they had a “personal stable” of six. The actress revealed her favorite, reports the Midland Daily News, is – or at least was in 2003 – a Corniche convertible once owned by Dean Martin. She nicknamed it The Rat Pack Rolls.

On 19 July 2022, Ruth “Ruthie” Buzzi’s husband Kent Perkins took to the actress’s Facebook page to announce that his wife had suffered a series of “devastating strokes”. “She wants you to know”, Perkins added in the post, that “she is not in pain and is aware you are sending your best wishes her way.” Perkin’s post garnered thousands of shares, comments, and likes from fans and well-wishers of the actress. Many of the comments detail ways in which the comedian brought joy to people’s lives.

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Ruth Buzzi’s husband Kent Perkins, is also an actor

Aside from the many things Kent Perkins and his wife have in common, the couple are also in the same profession. While his wife has close to a hundred or more credits to her name, Kent has 21 credits in various television series and films beginning in the mid-’70s according to his IMDb profile. In addition to starring in The Nashville Palace, Wishful Thinking, and One Month Out, Kent also earned credits as a writer in 1992’s To Protect and Serve and a producer in 1981’s The Being. 

Buzzi’s husband was also an associate director for Northwest Bankshares in Fort Worth from 1972 to 1983 and served on the board of directors for the Fort Worth Rehabilitation Centre during the same period.

According to HITC, became the director of the Republican Presidential Task Force in Los Angeles in 1984; three years later, he started working as a producer for NBC in Burbank. He was also an associate member of the State Bar of California from 1998 to 2003. In 2000, he joined California State University as an associate interim professor.