LOS ANGELES Dom DeLuise, the portly actor-comedian whose affable nature made him a popular character actor for decades with movie and TV audiences as well . : Itll Also Make You Feel Better (1997). "I was making $7,000 a week -- a lot of money back then -- but I didn't even know I was rich," he recalled in 1994. A frequent collaborator with DeLuise, Burt Reynolds released a statement to "Entertainment Tonight" on his friend's death. Dom DeLuise, the jovial comic who enlivened such madcap films as Cannonball Run, Blazing Saddles, and Spaceballs, has died. Actor: The Cannonball Run. The son of Italian immigrants, DeLuise was born Aug. 1, 1933. . He was one of these people who was gifted with the ability to make people laugh, close friend Carl Reiner told The Times on Tuesday. Memorial services will be private. He was 75.Often working with Burt Reynolds or Mel Brooks, the bearded, roly-poly actor was known for a sharp, distinctive, almost howling laugh that fills the outtakes reel of Cannonball Run — a testament to the joyous time he had with Reynolds. [5], In 1961, DeLuise played in the off-Broadway musical revue Another Evening with Harry Stoons,[6] which lasted nine previews and one performance. ", "I worked two years solidly on plays and moving furniture and painting scenery and playing parts," he remarked in a 2006 interview. Dom always made you feel better when he was around and there will never be another like him. We believe that every person's story is important as it provides our community with an opportunity to feel a sense of belonging, share their hopes and dreams. The 54-year-old is famous for his role as Officer Doug Penhall on "21 Jump Street." Together they appeared in the films The Cannonball Run and Cannonball Run II, Smokey and the Bandit II, The End, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. AmoMama creates engaging, meaningful content for women. DeLuise, who also appeared in some of Martins Celebrity Roast specials, didnt fare as well as the star of his own TV series. He was 75. Their three sons, Peter DeLuise, Michael DeLuise and David DeLuise all eventually found their way into show business. Acting called him back, however, and he found work at the Cleveland Playhouse, appearing in stage productions that ranged from comedies like "Kiss Me Kate" to Shakespeare's "Hamlet. While appearing in Meredith Willsons 1963-64 Broadway musical Heres Love, DeLuise did a comedy routine as an inept magician, Dominick the Great, on Garry Moores popular variety show. DeLuise was also the voice of Pizza the Hutt in Brooks' "Star Wars" parody, "Spaceballs. He broke into show business in the late 1950s in parts like Tinker the Toymaker in the daytime television show Tinkers Workshop. (The shows creator and first host, Bob Keeshan, had gone on to create and star in Captain Kangaroo.) He then made regular appearances on The Shari Lewis Show as a bumbling private eye. He was. no matter what the situation, my mothers solution was always, Eat this, itll make you feel better. , DeLuise, who had a second career as a celebrity chef, also wrote a number of childrens books, including Charlie the Caterpillar and The Pouch Potato.. [citation needed], Garrison also featured DeLuise in his own hour-long comedy specials for ABC. The two married a year later and shared three sons . On the positive side, his love of food resulted in two successful cookbooks, 1988's "Eat This - It Will Make You Feel Better!" [8] Other New York theater performances included Half-Past Wednesday (off-Broadway) (1962); Around the World in 80 Days (off-Broadway) (1963); The Student Gypsy (Broadway) (1963); Here's Love (Broadway) (1963); and Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Broadway) (1969). Gene Wilder cast him as a hammy opera star in The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother (1975) and as the mad studio chief Adolf Zitz in The Worlds Greatest Lover (1977). I never met anybody like him, she told The Times in 1999. Involves China and bolsters Biden. He was a naturally funny man, film critic Leonard Maltin told The Times on Tuesday. His appearances on the hit comedy-variety program brought offers from Hollywood, and DeLuise first came to the attention of movie-goers in "Fail Safe," a drama starring Henry Fonda. His wife, Carol Arthur, a Broadway actress whom he married in 1965, was one of the regulars. Dom's catchphrase, with an Italian accent, was "No Applause Please, Save-a to the End". Peter DeLuise is best known for co-starring with Johnny Depp on 21 Jump Street, which also featured Michael DeLuise. display: block; ", The actor also appeared frequently in films opposite his friend Burt Reynolds. "DeLuise's death was confirmed Tuesday by a representative for his son, David DeLuise. On Broadway, DeLuise appeared in Neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" and other plays. Greg was the man who said, Just go for it; I trust you, he recalled. (Martin was often off-camera when these were taped, and his distinctive laugh can be heard. "DeLuise's death was confirmed Tuesday by a representative for his son, David DeLuise. He followed with a comedy, "The Glass Bottom Boat," starring Doris Day, and from then on he alternated between films and television. He made a cameo appearance as a wild-eyed agent in The Muppet Movie (1979), took on a tragicomic role as a compulsive eater in Fatso (1980), and directed his first film, Hot Stuff (1979), in which he also took a starring role opposite Suzanne Pleshette. Other questions:subscriberservices@theadvocate.com. DeLuise died in Southern California on Monday, May 4, 2009, according to his son, Michael DeLuise. He ad-libbed his role in English while the singers performed in German.DeLuise also directed the film Hot Stuff and directed at the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre in Jupiter, Fla.Married to actress Carol Arthur, he was the patriarch of a show business family that also included his sons Peter, Michael, and David DeLuise. The heavily-bearded DeLuise even displayed scene-stealing antics on the operatic scene, once playing the speaking part of Frosch the Jailer in Johann Srauss II's operetta "Die ," at the Metropolitan Opera.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. "He loves to pick up a broken chair and fix it.". Two years later, he hosted The Dom DeLuise Show, his own comedy-variety summer series on CBS. Brooks once remarked that, whenever he cast Dom in one of his films he'd add an extra two days to the shooting schedule because of delays between takes due to the constant laughter from cast and crew at Dom's improvisations.The lovable, butterball comedian was a mainstay on 1960s and '70s TV variety as a "second banana," or comic-relief player. Films like Loose Cannons (1990), in which he played the obese pornographer Harry (the Hippo) Gutterman, did him no favors, and he reached a nadir in The Silence of the Hams (1994), a horror spoof, in which he played Dr. An overweight bachelor is fat, 40 and fed up--to the gills--but when his obese cousin Sal dies at 39, he must finally come to terms with his own weight problem. She was 85.. [7] Another member of the cast was 19-year-old Barbra Streisand. Other DeLuise collaborations included The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Silent Movie, History of the World, Part I, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights.He also appeared in the Orpheus in the Underworld at the Los Angeles Opera Company in 1989, and the next year performed with New York's Metropolitan Opera as Frosch, the jailer, in the comic production Die Fledermaus. Other TV credits included appearances on such shows as "The Munsters," 'The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.," 'Burke's Law," 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch" and "Diagnosis Murder.". Besides authoring cookbooks, DeLuise penned seven children's books. He also starred in the 1987-88 syndicated sitcom The Dom DeLuise Show, in which he played a Hollywood barber and widowed single father of a 10-year-old daughter. He strongly resembled the famed chef Paul Prudhomme and joked in a 1987 Associated Press interview that he had posed as Prudhomme while visiting his New Orleans restaurant, K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen. "Dom's obvious comic genius was more readily evident, and succeeded better, in tandem with other performers than it was on its own. Watch DeLuise talk about working on "The Mike Douglas Show" , DeLuise had three sons -- Peter, Michael and David -- who all became actors. 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Barkin, the cheeky and crazy main character, and DeLuise voiced Itchy Itchiford, Charlie's best friend, wing-man and later partner in business. I will miss him very much. Dom DeLuise, the irrepressibly rotund comedian, has died at the age of 75, his son Michael confirmed to the Web site of the Los Angeles television station KTLA. Acting called him back, however, and he found work at the Cleveland Playhouse, appearing in stage productions that ranged from comedies such as "Kiss Me Kate" to Shakespeare's "Hamlet. 2009 The Associated Press. The Brooklyn-born entertainer, who got his start on stage and in childrens television in the 1950s, emerged on TV variety shows in the 1960s. Appearing in the plays "The Jackass" and "All in Love," he became part of the featured ensemble of the 1961 musical revue "An Evening with Harry Stoones," which included 19-year-old Barbra Streisand. After making his Broadway debut in 1963 as the cheerfully nervous mountebank Muffin T. Ragamuffin in The Student Gypsy, he appeared as a nervous flier in the cold-war thriller Fail-Safe (1964). DeLuise died in Southern California on Monday, May 4, 2009, according to his son, Michael DeLuise. Among them, "The End," ''The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas," 'Smokey and the Bandit II," ''The Cannonball Run" and "Cannonball Run II.". He also made several appearances in TV shows like "Friends," "Supernatural," "The Facts of Life," and a cameo appearance in the 2012 remake of "21 Jump Street.". David, who began his career at the age of 8, noted that he and his family members would often sit together watching his dad's shows. In between, were platters of beef filet, chicken breast and sausage, a bowl of spaghetti and meatballs and a saucer of lettuce. The sitcom Lotsa Luck! [4], DeLuise's paid stage debut, at age 18, of Bernie the dog was in the drama Bernie's Christmas Wish. The comedian died in his sleep after a long illness. the star is famous for his stint with Disney Channel as the hilarious dad in the Emmy-winning show "Wizards of Waverly Place.". He authored two cookbooks and would appear often on morning TV shows to whip up his favorite recipes. Another brief stint was as host of a revamped Candid Camera (1991).While Dom made an unlikely film debut as a high-strung Air Force technician in the gripping nuclear drama Fail Safe (1964) starring Henry Fonda, it was in zany, irreverent comedy that he found his true calling. He also did voices for, among other animated films, The Secret of NIMH, All Dogs Go to Heaven and Oliver & Company., He even occasionally performed with opera companies, including appearing in the Los Angeles Opera Companys Orpheus in the Underworld and playing Frosh the Jailer in a New York Metropolitan Opera Company production ofDie Fledermaus.. He was 75 and lived in Pacific Palisades. 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