Biografía
DANNY DEVITO is one of the entertainment industry‘s most versatile players, excelling as actor, producer and director.
He wrote, directed and produced several short films in his early Hollywood years before emerging as a feature-length filmmaker. Dark comedic themes characterize his trademark films, including The Ratings Game, Throw Momma from the Train, The War of the Roses, Hoffa and Matilda.
DeVito stars as Frank Reynolds in the fifth season of FX‘s critically acclaimed cult comedy It‘s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Brian Koppelman and David Levien‘s Solitary Man reunites DeVito on screen with Michael Douglas.
DeVito is the principal of Jersey Film‘s 2nd Avenue, a predecessor company of Jersey Films. Jersey Films has produced more than 20 motion pictures, including Freedom Writers, Be Cool, Garden State, Along Came Polly, Erin Brockovich, Man on the Moon, Pulp Fiction, Out of Sight, Get Shorty, Hoffa, Matilda and Living Out Loud.
Two films co-starring DeVito won the Academy Award® for best picture, including One Flew Over the Cuckoo‘s Nest and Terms of Endearment, but it was the part of Louie De Palma on television‘s Taxi that propelled him to national prominence. He won an Emmy® and a Golden Globe® for the role, and in a 1999 readers‘ poll conducted by TV Guide, DeVito‘s Louie De Palma was voted number one among TV‘s Fifty Greatest Characters Ever.
Apart from his work with Jersey Films, DeVito has starred in such films as Junior, Batman Returns, Twins, Romancing the Stone, Jewel of the Nile, Ruthless People, Tin Men, Anything Else, Big Fish, Renaissance Man, The Big Kahuna and Heist. He starred in The Good Night, Deck the Halls, Relative Strangers, The OH in Ohio, Be Cool, Nobel Son and Even Money.
DeVito has many ventures outside the entertainment industry, including DeVito South Beach, a restaurant located on famed Ocean Drive in South Beach, Fla. It opened in 2007 and is recognized as a premiere dining destination. Also in 2007 was the launch of Danny DeVito‘s Premium Limoncello in conjunction with Iconic Brands, Inc. The idea for Danny DeVito‘s Premium Limoncello came after an appearance on ABC‘s The View, during which he joked about indulging in limoncello the night before.
DeVito attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. He later teamed up with a former American Academy professor, winning a starring role in one of three one-act plays presented together under the title of The Man with the Flower in His Mouth.
Stage performances followed, including Down the Morning Line, The Line of Least Existence, The Shrinking Bride and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
In 1975, under a grant from the American Film Institute, DeVito and his wife, actress Rhea Perlman, wrote and produced Minestrone, which has been shown twice at the Cannes Film Festival and has been translated into five languages. Later they wrote and produced a 16 millimeter black-and-white short subject, The Sound Sleeper, which won first prize at the Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association competition. DeVito has also directed Death to Smoochy and Duplex.
DeVito carries his success well. Never forgetting that there were more difficult times, he maintains a healthy sense of perspective. As Taxi character Louie De Palma would say, If you don‘t do good today, you‘ll be eatin‘ dirt tomorrow.
Touchstone Pictures
Actor
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2014 |
One Direction - Steal My Girl |
1985 |
Billy Ocean: When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going |
1984 |
Ray Parker Jr.: Ghostbusters |
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1996 |
'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Videos |
1992 |
Amazing Stories: Book One |
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2016 |
Curmudgeons |
2013 |
Seven Minutes to Save the World |
2012 |
Movie: The Movie |
2010 |
Inside the Actor's Workshop |
2007 |
Danny DeVito & the Contract (telepelícula) |
2004 |
Catching Kringle |
1973 |
Hot Dogs for Gauguin |
Productor
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2025 |
Manhunt |
2014 |
Caminando entre las tumbas |
2007 |
Diarios de la calle |
2000 |
Erin Brockovich |
1999 |
Man on the Moon |
1997 |
Gattaca |
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2022 |
He Watches |
2016 |
Curmudgeons |
Director
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2022 |
St. Sebastian |
2005 |
Queen B (telepelícula) |
2003 |
Dúplex |
2002 |
Smoochy |
1996 |
Matilda |
1992 |
Hoffa: un pulso al poder |
1989 |
La guerra de los Rose |
1987 |
Tira a mamá del tren |
1984 |
El magnate (telepelícula) |
1976 |
Selling of Vince D'Angelo (telepelícula) |
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1986 |
Cuentos asombrosos |
The Wedding Ring (S02E01) |
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1985 |
Mary |
1983 |
Taxi |
Jim's Mario's (S05E20) |
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Sugar Ray Nardo (S05E15) |
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1982 |
Taxi |
Elaine and the Monk (S05E10) |
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1992 |
Amazing Stories: Book One |
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2016 |
Curmudgeons |
Protagonista
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