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  Danny DeVitoAKA:
Daniel Michael DeVito
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biography
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,
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milestones
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Milestone
Grew up in Asbury Park, NJ
1963
Worked as hairdresser for one year at his sister's shop in New Jersey at age 18 (date approximate)
1966
Met Michael Douglas while studying at the AADA and working at the Eugene O'Neill Foundation when the two were at the National Playwrights Conference in Waterford, CT
After graduating from the AADA, tried to find acting work in New York and later Los Angeles, but eventually moved back to the New York area
1968
Feature film acting debut in "Dreams of Glass"
1969
Off-Broadway debut in the leading role of one of three one-act plays jointly entitled "The Man With the Flower in His Mouth"
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