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Rodney Dangerfield
(1921-2004)
Who Was Rodney Dangerfield?
Rodney Dangerfield started performing stand-up comedy in his teens as "Jack Roy," but finding that comedy didn't pay the bills, he spent the 1950s working as a salesman.
Re-entering show business in the early 1960s as "Rodney Dangerfield," he got a little more respect.
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He opened Dangerfield's comedy club in the 1970s and starred in a series of hit comedy films in the 1980s including Caddyshack.
Early Life
Actor and comedian Jacob Cohen was born on November 22, 1921, in Babylon, New York, the youngest of two children.
His father, Phil Roy, was a comic and juggler who toured the vaudeville circuit. Roy abandoned the family shortly after Dangerfield's birth, leaving Dangerfield's mother to raise her children alone. To help the family scrape by, Rodney began selling ice cream on the beach and delivering groceries after school.
Dangerfield struggled through a difficult childhood.
He was frequently