Rodney Dangerfield
American stand-up comedian (1921-2004) · United States · On the map · Comedians · Died at 82
He made a career out of losing - the tie always crooked, the wife always cold, the kids never calling. Rodney Dangerfield turned self-loathing into an art form, and "I get no respect!" into the most quotable grievance in American comedy.
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Walter C. Miller Directed The Rodney Dangerfield Show: It's Not Easy Bein' Me (1982)
Harold Ramis Directed Caddyshack (1980)
Tim Allen Directed Home Improvement
Sidney J. Furie Directed Ladybugs and My 5 Wives
Gilbert Gottfried Rodney produced Meet Wally Sparks (1997)
Blake Clark Also in Home Improvement and Ladybugs
Jay Leno Rodney produced Meet Wally Sparks (1997)
Edie McClurg Also in Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997)
Roseanne Barr Rodney produced Meet Wally Sparks (1997)
Debi Mazar Rodney produced Meet Wally Sparks (1997)- Lewis Arquette Rodney produced Meet Wally Sparks (1997)
Mark L. Taylor Rodney produced Meet Wally Sparks (1997)
Lenny Clarke Rodney produced Meet Wally Sparks (1997)
Carmen Filpi Rodney produced Meet Wally Sparks (1997)
Bob Saget Rodney produced Meet Wally Sparks (1997)
Haim Saban Produced Rusty: A Dog's Tale (1998)
Sam Kinison Also in Back to School (1986)
Paul Willson Also in The Rodney Dangerfield Special: I Can't Take It No More (1983)
Alan Metter Directed Back to School (1987)
Steven Spielberg Produced Casper (1995)
Quentin Tarantino Also in Little Nicky (2001)
Robert Downey Jr. Also in Back to School and Natural Born Killers
Oliver Stone Directed Natural Born Killers (1994)
Artie Lange Influenced by Rodney
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About this person
Jack Roy started as a stand-up at the Fantasy Lounge in New York, grinding through the 1960s and 1970s as a late-night talk show regular before becoming a Las Vegas headliner. The monologues on getting no respect - delivered in a strangled voice, tugging at his collar - became his signature, and in 1980 two things hit: his album No Respect won the Grammy for Best Comedy Album, and Caddyshack gave him a breakout film role as a boorish nouveau riche golfer. A string of comedies followed through the 1990s (Back to School, Easy Money, Ladybugs), plus a rare turn as an abusive father in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers. He received a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2002, but health troubles slowed him, and he died in 2004 after a month in a coma following heart valve surgery complications.
