Danny DeVito Biography, Family, Career, Quotes, and Penguin

Danny Devito Biography / Who Is Danny Devito

Danny DeVito, born Daniel Michael DeViot Jr., is an American actor and filmmaker. He gained fame and recognition following his performance of taxi dispatcher Louie De Palma in the TV series “Taxi”, for which he won a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award. Apart from this, he has played numerous roles in a lot of notable films like  Tin Men, Throw Momma from the Train, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ruthless People, Man on the Moon, Terms of Endearment, among others.

Along with acting, he has done voice-over roles for various characters in such films as Space Jam, Hercules and The Lorax. Over the years, he has also directed, produced and appeared in many films as well. Recently, he has been starring in the sitcom “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.

Danny Devito Age

He was born on the 17th of November 1944 in Neptune Township, New Jersey, United States. As of 2018, he is 74 years old.

Danny Devito Height

He stands at a height of 4 ft 10 in (1.47 m).

Danny Devito Family

He was one of three born to Daniel DeVito Sr., a small business owner, and Julia DeVito (maiden name Moccello). He was the last-born with two older sisters. The family is of Italian descent, and are devout Catholics.

Danny Devito Wife

He married Rhea Pearlman, a fellow actor, on the 28th of January 1982 and have been together ever since. The two met on the 17th of January 1971when she went to see a friend in the single performance of the play The Shrinking Bride, which also featured DeVito. Two weeks after their meeting they moved in together.

Danny Devito Children

The couple has three children: Lucy Chet DeVito, an actress (born March 11, 1983), Grace Fan DeVito (born March 1985), and Jacob Daniel DeVito (born October 1987)

Danny Devito Career

In his early theatre days, he performed with the Colonnades Theatre lab at the Eugene O’Neil Theater Center and appeared in plays produced by the Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective. He began gaining fame in 1978 after playing as Louie De Palma in the hit TV show “Taxi”. After this, his career in film and TV became more successful, starting with roles in 1983’s “Terms of Endearment”,  the romantic adventure “Romancing the Stone”, and its 1985 sequel, “The Jewel of the Nile”. In 1987, he made his feature-directing debut with the dark comedy “Throw Momma from the Train”, alongside Billy Crystal and Anne Ramsey.

Although generally a comic actor, DeVito expanded into dramatic roles with “The Rainmaker”, “Hoffa”, “Jack the Bear”, “L.A. Confidential”, “The Big Kahuna”, and “Heist”. He has shown some interest in documentaries and in 2006 partnered with ‘ClickStar’, and hosts a documentary channel called “Jersey Docs”.  He made his Broadway debut in a Roundabout Theatre Company revival of the Arthur Miller play “The Price” as Gregory Solomon and was nominated for a Tony Award for the performance.

He has become a major film and TV producer. Through ‘Jersey Films’, a production company founded by him and Michael Shamberg, he has produced many films, including Pulp Fiction, Get Shorty, Erin Brockovich, Gattaca, and Garden State. Along with all this, he also directs films and TV shows and began with “The Ratings Game” in 1984. In 1986, DeVito voiced the Grundle King in “My Little Pony: The Movie” while his wife, Rhea Perlman, voiced Reeka the witch.

He hosted the last Saturday Night Live episode before the year 2000. He earned a 2004 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for an episode of “Friends”. He garnered a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame for his works in television in 2011.

Danny Devito Movies

Year	Title	Role
2019	Dumbo	Max Medici
	Untitled Jumanji third film
2018	Smallfoot	Dorgle (voice)
2017	Animal Crackers	Chesterfield (voice)
2016	Curmudgeons	Jackie
	Wiener-Dog	Dave Schmerz
	The Comedian	Jimmy Berkowitz
2014	All the Wilderness	Dr. Pembry
2012	The Lorax	The Lorax (voice)
	Hotel Noir	Eugene Portland
2011	Girl Walks into a Bar	Aldo
	Revenge of the Electric Car	Himself
2010	When in Rome	Al
	I’m Still Here	Himself
2009	House Broken	Tom “Smoky” Cathkart
	Solitary Man	Jimmy
2008	Just Add Water	Merl
2007	The Good Night	Mel
	Reno 911!: Miami	District Attorney
	Nobel Son	Gastner
2006	Relative Strangers	Frank Menure
	Even Money	Walter
	10 Items or Less	Big D
	The Oh in Ohio	Wayne
	Deck the Halls	Buddy Hall
2005	Be Cool	Martin Weir
	Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing and Charm School	Booth
2004	Christmas in Love	Brad LaGuardia
2003	Anything Else	Harvey Wexler
	Duplex	Narrator (voice)
	Big Fish	Amos Calloway
2002	Death to Smoochy	Burke Bennet
	Austin Powers in Goldmember	Himself as Mini-Me
2001	Heist	Bergman
	What’s the Worst That Could Happen?	Max Fairbanks
2000	Drowning Mona	Wyatt Rash
	Screwed	Grover Cleaver
1999	The Big Kahuna	Phil Cooper
	Man on the Moon	George Shapiro
	The Virgin Suicides	Dr. Hornicker
1998	Living Out Loud	Pat Francato
1997	The Rainmaker	Deck Shifflet
	Hercules	Philoctetes (voice)
	L.A. Confidential	Sid Hudgens
	Men in Black	Alien on TV Monitor
1996	Matilda	Harry Wormwood / Narrator
	Space Jam	Swackhammer (voice)
	Mars Attacks!	Rude Gambler
1995	Get Shorty	Martin Weir
1994	Renaissance Man	Bill Rago
	Junior	Dr. Larry Arbogast
1993	Jack the Bear	John Leary
	Last Action Hero	Whiskers (voice)
	Look Who’s Talking Now	Rocks (voice)
1992	Batman Returns	Oswald Copplepot / The Penguin
	Hoffa	Bobby Ciaro
1991	Other People’s Money	Larry Garfield
1989	The War of the Roses	Gavin D’Amato
1988	Twins	Vincent Benedict
1987	Tin Men	Ernest Tilley
	Throw Momma from the Train	Owen Lift
1986	Wise Guys	Harry Valentini
	Ruthless People	Sam Stone
	My Little Pony: The Movie	Grundle King (voice)
1985	The Jewel of the Nile	Ralph
	Head Office	Frank Steadman
1984	Romancing the Stone	Ralph
	Johnny Dangerously	Burr
1983	Terms of Endearment	Vernon Dahlart
1981	Going Ape!	Lazlo
1979	Swap Meet	Max
1978	Goin’ South	Hog
1977	The Van	Andy
	The World’s Greatest Lover	Assistant Director
1976	Car Wash	Joe
	The Money	Bartender
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	Martini
	Deadly Hero	Unknown character
1973	Hurry Up, or I’ll Be 30	Petey
	Scalawag	Fly Speck
1972	Hot Dogs for Gauguin	Adrian
1971	Lady Liberty	Fred Mancuso
1970	Dreams of Glass	Thug
TBA	The One and Only Ivan	Bob (voice)
	Harry Haft

Danny Devito TV Show

Year	Title	Role
2018	The Kominsky Method	Dr. Wexler
2015	Deadbeat	Giuseppe Monamocce
2006–	It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia	Frank Reynolds
2004	Friends	Officer Roy Goodbody
	Father of the Pride	Emerson (voice)
2003	Karen Sisco	Charlie Lucre
2002	Ed	Dr. Jack Carmichael
1997	Pearl	Dean Martin
1994	The Larry Sanders Show	Himself
1991–92, 2013	The Simpsons	Herb Powell (voice)
1990	The Earth Day Special	Vic
1988	Sesame Street	Vincent van Trash
1985	Amazing Stories	Herbert
1984	The Ratings Game	Vic De Salvo
	CBS Schoolbreak Special	Ackroyd
1982–99	Saturday Night Live	Himself (host)
1980	The Associates	Alan Swathmore
1979	Angie	Uncle Cheech
1978–83	Taxi	Louie De Palma
1977	Delvecchio	Anthony ‘Beanzie’ Marott
	Starsky and Hutch	John “John John the Apple” DeAppoliso
	Police Woman	Napoleon

Danny Devito Net Worth

He has an estimated net worth of $80 million.

Danny Devito Quotes

• People come into your lives who you have a good time with, and time goes by and you still have a good time with them and you do stupid stuff with them. To me, that’s life.
• There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won’t stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won’t go?
• You have to give people permission to laugh. That’s why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.
• After you’ve lived with somebody for 11 years, what’s a guy in a robe reading from a book going to change?
• Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It’s terrible. I have two daughters, but even before my kids were born I always thought that it was terrible.
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Why Is Danny Devito So Short

He suffers from multiple epiphyseal dysplasias (Fairbank’s disease). The victims of this rare disease bone growth is distorted. On him, this resulted in him being short.

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