Danny DeVito

American actor, comedian, director and producer (born 1944)

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82
Born 1944
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Pulp Fiction
1994

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Updated 2026-09-01

A four-foot-ten frame, a voice like gravel in a blender, and a knack for playing the kind of gleefully deranged characters most actors wouldn't touch — that's been the calling card for five decades. The dispatcher who made Taxi mean, the trash-dad on It's Always Sunny, the Penguin, the Lorax: all him.

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DeVito broke through as Louie De Palma, the snarling taxi dispatcher on Taxi from 1978 to 1983, winning a Golden Globe and an Emmy for the role. From there he became a fixture in '80s and '90s comedies — Twins, Throw Momma from the Train, The War of the Roses, Batman Returns' Penguin — while also building a serious producing career. He and Michael Shamberg founded Jersey Films, the company behind Pulp Fiction, Erin Brockovich (which earned him an Oscar nod), and Garden State. In 1996 he directed and starred in Matilda alongside his wife Rhea Perlman, adapting Roald Dahl's novel. Since 2006 he'…

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