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Diminutive (5') Danny DeVito parlayed his characteristically tough and harsh quasi-Brooklyn style of line delivery and formidable flair for the demonically comic into starring parts by the mid 1980s. His breakthrough film, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), marked his first collaboration with longtime friend Michael Douglas (who produced) and introduced him to Jack Nicholson who had grown up in the same Jersey Shore environs as had DeVito. Utterly believable as the touching and pathetic Martini, one of a fine ensemble of mental patients that included future "Taxi" (ABC, 1978-82; NBC, 1982-83) regular Christopher Lloyd, De Vito landed the part of tyrannical dispatcher Louie De Palma on that acclaimed TV comedy series and began developing his patented screen persona that has served him so well, that of the lovable sleaze....

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Filmography

A Walk Among the Tombstones - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Blowing Smoke - ( / / Announced / )
Cricket Spit - ( Executive Producer / / Announced / )
Eighth Wonder - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Family Feud - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Family of the Year - ( / / Announced / )
Gangsta Bitches - ( Producer / / Announced / )
How High 2 - ( Producer / / Announced / )
I Married A Witch - ( Director / / Announced / )
Killer Rates - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Lost Girls (Universal) - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Mooch - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Operation Spy Girl - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Penny Dreadful: Ghost Detective - ( Producer / / Announced / )
River Road - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Rushing - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The BLACK PEARL (Columbia Pictures) - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The Children of the Dust Bowl - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The Cool Hunt - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The Cool Hunt - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The Man Who Came to Dinner - ( Director / / Announced / )
The Man Who Came to Dinner - ( / / Announced / )
The Marx Brothers - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The Nature of Enchantment - ( / / Announced / )
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle - ( Director / / Announced / )
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle - ( Screenplay / / Announced / )
The Unnatural - ( Director / / Announced / )
The Unnatural - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The Unnatural - ( / / Announced / )
Untitled (Bugaloos Project) - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Untitled (Jersey Films/ golf project) - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Vidocq Society - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Get Christie Love - ( Producer / / In-Development / Universal Pictures Distribution )
Catching Kringle - ( Voice / / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
Guest of Cindy Sherman - ( - Himself / / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
No Place Like Home (Capacity Pictures) - ( Cathkart / / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
Solitary - ( - Cast / / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
When in Rome - ( - Cast / / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
Just Add Water - ( Merl Stryker / 2008 / Released / )
Just Add Water - ( Executive Producer / 2008 / Released / )
Nobel Son - ( George Gastner / 2008 / Released / )
Freedom Writers - ( Producer / 2007 / Released / )
Reno 911: Miami - ( District Attorney / 2007 / Released / )
Reno 911: Miami - ( Producer / 2007 / Released / )
The Good Night - ( Mel / 2007 / Released / )
10 Items Or Less - ( - Cast / 2006 / Released / )
Deck The Halls - ( Buddy Hall / 2006 / Released / )
Even Money - ( Producer / 2006 / Released / )
Even Money - ( Walter / 2006 / Released / )
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School - ( Booth / 2006 / Released / )
The Oh in Ohio - ( Wayne / 2006 / Released / )
Be Cool - ( Producer / 2005 / Released / )
Be Cool - ( Martin Weir / 2005 / Released / )
Along Came Polly - ( Producer / 2004 / Released / )
Christmas in Love - ( Brad / 2004 / Released / )
Garden State - ( Executive Producer / 2004 / Released / )
Anything Else - ( Harvey / 2003 / Released / )
Big Fish - ( Amos Calloway / 2003 / Released / )
Camp - ( Producer / 2003 / Released / )
Duplex - ( Director / 2003 / Released / )
Austin Powers in Goldmember - ( cameo / 2002 / Released / )
Death to Smoochy - ( Director / 2002 / Released / )
Death to Smoochy - ( Burke Bennett / 2002 / Released / )
Caveman's Valentine - ( Producer / 2001 / Released / )
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - ( Special Thanks / 2001 / Released / )
Heist - ( Mickey Bergman / 2001 / Released / )
How High - ( Producer / 2001 / Released / )
What's The Worst That Could Happen? - ( Max Fairbanks / 2001 / Released / )
Drowning Mona - ( Chief Rash / 2000 / Released / Alliance Atlantis Releasing )
Drowning Mona - ( Executive Producer / 2000 / Released / Alliance Atlantis Releasing )
Drowning Mona - ( Song Performer / 2000 / Released / Alliance Atlantis Releasing )
Erin Brockovich - ( Producer / 2000 / Released / )
Screwed - ( Grover Cleaver / 2000 / Released / )
Screwed - ( Song / 2000 / Released / )
The Big Kahuna - ( Phil / 2000 / Released / )
The Filth and the Fury - ( Special Thanks / 2000 / Released / )
The Virgin Suicides - ( Dr. Hornicker / 2000 / Released / )
Man on the Moon - ( Producer / 1999 / Released / )
Man on the Moon - ( George Shapiro / 1999 / Released / )
Living Out Loud - ( Producer / 1998 / Released / Alliance Releasing )
Living Out Loud - ( Pat / 1998 / Released / Alliance Releasing )
Living Out Loud - ( Song Performer / 1998 / Released / Alliance Releasing )
Out of Sight - ( Producer / 1998 / Released / )
Gattaca - ( Producer / 1997 / Released / )
Hercules - ( of Phil / 1997 / Released / Village Roadshow Pictures Worldwide )
John Grisham's The Rainmaker - ( Deck Shifflet / 1997 / Released / Gaga Entertainment )
L.A. Confidential - ( Sid Hudgens / 1997 / Released / Village Roadshow Pictures Worldwide )
Feeling Minnesota - ( Producer / 1996 / Released / Panasia )
Mars Attacks! - ( Rude Gambler / 1996 / Released / )
Matilda - ( Producer / 1996 / Released / Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) )
Matilda - ( Harry Wormwood / 1996 / Released / Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) )
Matilda - ( Director / 1996 / Released / Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) )
Space Jam - ( of Swackhammer / 1996 / Released / )
Sunset Park - ( Producer / 1996 / Released / )
Felony - ( Extra / 1995 / Released / Orler Distribution )
Get Shorty - ( Producer / 1995 / Released / )
Get Shorty - ( Martin Weir / 1995 / Released / )
8 Seconds - ( Executive Producer / 1994 / Released / )
Junior - ( Dr Larry Arbogast / 1994 / Released / )
Pulp Fiction - ( Executive Producer / 1994 / Released / Alliance Releasing )
Reality Bites - ( Producer / 1994 / Released / )
Renaissance Man - ( Bill Rago / 1994 / Released / )
Jack the Bear - ( John Leary / 1993 / Released / )
Look Who's Talking Now - ( of Rocks / 1993 / Released / )
Batman Returns - ( The Penguin/Oswald Cobblepot / 1992 / Released / )
Hoffa - ( Director / 1992 / Released / )
Hoffa - ( Producer / 1992 / Released / )
Hoffa - ( Bobby Ciaro / 1992 / Released / )
Other People's Money - ( Lawrence Garfield / 1991 / Released / SF )
The War of the Roses - ( Director / 1989 / Released / Holland Film Releasing )
The War of the Roses - ( Gavin D'Amato / 1989 / Released / Holland Film Releasing )
Twins - ( Vincent Benedict / 1988 / Released / )
Throw Momma From the Train - ( Owen / 1987 / Released / )
Throw Momma From the Train - ( Director / 1987 / Released / )
Tin Men - ( Tilley / 1987 / Released / )
Head Office - ( Stedman / 1986 / Released / Toho Co Ltd )
My Little Pony - ( of Grundle King / 1986 / Released / )
Ruthless People - ( Sam Stone / 1986 / Released / )
Wise Guys - ( Harry Valentini / 1986 / Released / )
Jewel of the Nile - ( Ralph / 1985 / Released / )
Johnny Dangerously - ( Burr / 1984 / Released / )
Romancing the Stone - ( Ralph / 1984 / Released / )
The Ratings Game - ( Director / 1984 / Released / )
The Ratings Game - ( Vic DeSalvo / 1984 / Released / )
Terms of Endearment - ( Vernon Dahlart / 1983 / Released / UIP The Film Consortium )
Going Ape! - ( Lazlo / 1981 / Released / )
Goin' South - ( Clyde/Hog / 1978 / Released / )
The Van - ( / 1977 / Released / Crown International Pictures )
The World's Greatest Lover - ( Assistant Director / 1977 / Released / )
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - ( Martini / 1975 / Released / )
Hurry Up, or I'll Be 30 - ( Petey / 1973 / Released / Avco Embassy Film )
Scalawag - ( Fly Speck / 1973 / Released / )
La Mortadella - ( / 1972 / Released / Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution )
Relative Strangers - ( Producer / / Released / )
Relative Strangers - ( Frank Manure / / Released / )