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2 unusual facts about Dom DeLuise


Got the Life

In a 2013 interview with Scuzz, Jonathan Davis revealed that "Got The Life" originally contained an audio sample at the very beginning - a piece of dialogue spoken by actor Dom DeLuise in the 1974 film Blazing Saddles.

The Land Before Time

This is the only Don Bluth film of the 1980s in which Dom DeLuise did not participate (instead, he starred in Disney's Oliver & Company that same year), and the only film in The Land Before Time series that is not a musical, as well as the only one to be released theatrically worldwide.


B.L. Stryker

Among the guest stars in the series' 12 episodes were: Loni Anderson, Elizabeth Ashley, Ned Beatty, James Best, Michael Chiklis, Dom DeLuise, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Jack Gilford, Neil Patrick Harris, Doug McClure, Ricardo Montalban, Denise Nicholas, Austin Pendleton, Deborah Raffin, Helen Shaver, Maureen Stapleton and Kristy Swanson.

Dick Solomon

At the end of the episode, Bug's father (portrayed by David DeLuise's father Dom DeLuise) walks into Dick's office wearing a fedora flanked by two brutes (portrayed by DeLuise' real-life sons Michael and Peter) who seem to have a connection to the mob.

Dom Irrera

His film work includes a featured role in Robert Townsend's Hollywood Shuffle, a cameo in the Coen Brothers film The Big Lebowski, The Fourth Tenor, starring old pal Rodney Dangerfield, and he played himself in the Rodney Dangerfield / Dom DeLuise film The Godson.

Greg Garrison

He was probably best known for producing and directing the The Dean Martin Show, The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts, hour-long comedy specials with Dom DeLuise, and summer shows with Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, Jonathan Winters, The Golddiggers, and Marty Feldman.

John M. Sjogren

Raised in La Cañada, California John Sjogren's films have included actors including Corey Feldman Todd Bridges Dom DeLuise and Roxana Zal.

On the Buses

The format of On the Buses was sold to American television, where it was remade by NBC as Lotsa Luck, starring Dom DeLuise as Stanley Belmont with Kathleen Freeman as Iris Belmont, his mum, Wynn Irwin as Arthur Swann, Beverly Sanders as Olive Swann and Jack Knight as Bummy Pfitzer, his best friend.


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