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Dom DeLuise was an American actor, comedian, director, chef, and author. He starred in many films and TV shows, especially with Burt Reynolds and Mel Brooks, and voiced several animated characters.
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IMDb provides a comprehensive overview of the life and career of Dom DeLuise, a versatile comedian, actor, director and writer. Learn about his early years, his roles in TV and film, his family, his awards and his trivia.
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- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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- Santa Monica, California, USA
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As might be said for the late and great comedians Harvey Korman and Madeline Kahn, it seems that Mel Brooks was the only director on the planet who knew how to best utilize this funnyman's talents on film. Brooks once quipped that, whenever he hired Dom DeLuise for one of his films, he would instinctively add another two days to the schedule becaus...
He was born Dominick DeLuise on August 1, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York, to parents John, a sanitation engineer, and Vicenza (DeStefano) DeLuise, both Italian immigrants. A natural class clown, it helped Dom fit in at school, and he started drawing belly laughs fairly young on stage. His very first school play had him portraying an inert copper penny...
Dom's formative years as an actor were spent apprenticing at the Cleveland Playhouse in which he gamely played roles in everything from \"Guys and Dolls\" and \"Stalag 17\" to \"The School for Scandal\" and \"Hamlet.\" He earned his first professional paycheck playing Bernie the dog in a production called \"Bernie's Last Wish.\" Dom also got a tast...
Dom was first noticed on the smaller screen creating the sketch character of Dominick the Great, a magician who tries in vain to mask his ineptness with feigned dignity on Garry Moore's popular show. The rolypoly comedian truly thrived in this TV variety atmosphere and soon began popping up all over the place (The Hollywood Palace (1964), The Smoth...
Mel Brooks first cast Dom as the miserly Father Fyodor in his film The Twelve Chairs (1970), and found plenty of room for the comedian after that -- as campy director Buddy Bizarre in Blazing Saddles (1974), the silly-ass director's assistant in Silent Movie (1976), Emperor Nero in History of the World: Part I (1981), the voice of the cheese-oozing...
A very close friend of action star Burt Reynolds, Dom romped through a number of Reynolds' freewheeling films as well, including Smokey and the Bandit II (1980), The Cannonball Run (1981) and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982). One of his finest scene-stealing film roles, in fact, was as Reynolds' schizo pal in The End (1978). Dom went on t...
Dom's voiceover skills did not go by untapped either, which included the animated feature films The Secret of NIMH (1982), An American Tail (1986) and All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989), plus all of their offshoots. The heavily-bearded DeLuise even displayed scene-stealing antics on the operatic scene, once playing the speaking part of Frosch the Jailer ...
Suffering from various physical ailments in later years, some of which were exacerbated by his chronic obesity and diabetes, Dom's health declined, and he died in 2009 at age 75. His wife and three children survived him, as did three grandchildren.
Learn about the life and career of Dom DeLuise, a versatile comedian and actor who starred in TV shows, movies and musicals. Find out his birth name, height, family, roles, awards and trivia on IMDb.
- August 1, 1933
- May 4, 2009
Dominick "Dom" DeLuise (August 1, 1933 – May 4, 2009) was an American actor, voice actor, comedian, movie director, television producer, chef and author. He was the husband of actress Carol Arthur from 1965 until his death in 2009. He was the father of actor, director, pianist, and writer Peter DeLuise, actor David DeLuise, and actor Michael ...
May 5, 2009 · A brief obituary of actor-comedian Dom DeLuise, who died in 2009 after a long illness. It covers his career, his weight struggles, his cookbooks and his family.
May 5, 2009 · Dom DeLuise, a pudgy actor whose manic grin and air of desperation added comic bounce to films like “The Twelve Chairs,” “Blazing Saddles” and “Cannonball Run,” died Monday in Los Angeles.
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Sep 16, 2014 · Dom DeLuise, the mirthful, moon-faced comic actor who provided frequent comedic support in television variety shows of the 1960s and ‘70s and in movies starring Mel Brooks and Burt Reynolds,...
