Rodney Dangerfield (November 22, 1921 - October 5, 2004), born Jacob Cohen, was an American comedian and actor, best known for the line ''"I don't get no respect" & his monologues on that theme.

Early life and career
He was natural within Babylon, Long Island, USA, the boy of vaudevillian Phil Roy (Philip Cohen). As a stripling, he had his begin writing jokes for standup comics; he became one himself at Nineteen, & struggled financially for nine years under a title Jack Roy prior to yielding higher show business to take a job as a salesman to support his married woman.

He returned to have-higher in the early 1960s; to give his career a clean run, he changed his title to Rodney Dangerfield. A picture The Godfather inspired his trademark line about a want of respect he received. Headlining performances inside Las Vegas and dozens of performances on The Ed Sullivan Show and The Dean Martin Show kept him in the public eye. Dangerfield processed Seventy appearances on The Tonight Show. Dangerfield too processed an appearance on The Simpsons'' as Mr. Burns' son, Larry. Larry Burns was modeled after Dangerfield, including his tie tug.

Wanting to remain touching his babies fallowing his divorcement from either their mother, he became the creator of a Manhattan nightclub in 1969; the cabaret, "Dangerfield's", was a venue for an HBO indicate & helped popularize numerous have-higher comedian, including Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Carrey, Tim Allen, Roseanne Barr, Jeff Foxworthy, Sam Kinison, Rita Rudner, and Bob Saget. Numerous of whom would visit Dangerfield after he was in the hospital shortly prior to his demise.

Dangerfield's career peaked when you took a early 1980s, with his appearance around Caddyshack and the release of his Grammy Award-winning comedy album No Respect. He played an abusive father around Natural Born Killers in a scene in which he wrote his have lines.

Around 1994, Dangerfield won an American Comedy Award for lifetime originative accomplishment. He was as well recognized per Smithsonian Institution, which put one of his trademark white shirts & red ties in display.

Inside 1995, his application for membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was rejected. At a instance, Dangerfield commented in how else so-president of AMPAS, Roddy McDowall, who acted within the monkey lawsuit in the Planet of the Apes series of films, possibly felt that Dangerfield wasn't dignified sufficiency to join a organization. AMPAS would late vary their guide & offer membership, an offer he declined.

A confusion of Dangerfield's stage personthe by using his real-life personality was a conception that he hanker resented. Described by his married woman when "classy, gentlemanly, sensitive and intelligent" [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/6054693/rodneydangerfield?pageid=rs.Artistcage&pageregion=triple3&rnd=1096316510181&has-player=true], humans world health organization met a comedian however treated him when a belligerent loser whose character he adopted around performance.

Inside 2004, Dangerfield's autobiography, ''It's Not Convenient Bein' Pine tree state: The Lifespan of There is no Respect however Plenty of Sex & Doses'' (ISBN 0066211077) was published. A book's original title was Our Romance Using Marijuana, the information to the drug he smoked daily for 60 years.

Later years

In April 8, 2003, Dangerfield underwent brain surgery to improve blood flow in preparation for heart valve-replacement surgery on August 24, 2004. Upon typing a hospital, he uttered a second 1-liner of the nature and severity he was known for: responding to how else yearn he would become hospitalized, he said, "If all goes well, about a week. If not, about an hour-and-a-half."

Inside September 2004, it was revealed that Dangerfield, then aged 82, got been within the coma for several weeks. Subsequently, he got been breathing in his have & experienced been showing signs of awareness whilst visited by friends. Still, in October 5, 2004, he died at the UCLA Medical Center, where he got undergone a surgery inside August. He was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

He was married twice to Joyce Indig - from either 1949 to 1962, and then from either 1963 to 1970 - with whom he experienced the boy known as Brian & the girl known as Melanie. From either 1993 to his death he was married to Joan Toddler.

Once Johnny Carson died on January 23rd, 2005. The correspondant from either CNN known as Kevin Sasaki, Rodney's longtime publiciser, & asked in case he would exist as available to part comments on the air all about Carson. To which Sasaki replied "Unless CNN had a new way of linking up to the afterlife via satellite, that would be impossible."

Selected Filmography
The Projectionist (1971) Caddyshack (1980) Easy Money (1983) (also writer) Back to School (1986) (also writer) Moving (1988) (Cameo) ''Rodney Dangerfield: Nothin' Goes Right (1988) (documentary) (besides writer) Rover Dangerfield (1991) (voice) (also writer & producer) Ladybugs (1992) Natural Born Killers (1994) Casper (1995) (Cameo) Meet Wally Sparks (1997) (also writer & producer) Rusty: A Dog's Tale (1998) (voice) The Godson (1998) Pirates: 3D Show (1999) (short subject) My 5 Wives (2000) (also writer & producer) Little Nicky (2000) Back by Midnight (2002) (also writer) The 4th Tenor (2002) (also writer) Three 'S' a Crowd (2005) (currently filming) Angels with Angles (2005) (currently filming)

TV Work
The Dean Martin Show (regular performer from either 1972-1973) Benny and Barney: Las Vegas Undercover (1977) It's Not Easy Bein' Me: The Rodney Dangerfield Show (1982) Rodney Dangerfield: It's Not Easy Bein' Me (1986) Where's Rodney (1990-1991) Rodney Dangerfield's The Really Big Show (1991) Rodney Dangerfield: It's Lonely at the Top (1992) The Simpson's (1996) (voice of Burns's son, Larry Burns) ''Rodney Dangerfield's 75th Birthday Toast (1997) The Electric Piper'' (2003) (voice)