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The 16 week run was the summer replacement for The Jonathan Winters Show.ĭeLuise was probably best known as a regular in Mel Brooks' films. Dom's wife Carol Arthur also regularly appeared. Taped in Miami at The Jackie Gleason Theater it featured many regular Gleason show cast members including The June Taylor Dancers and The Sammy Spear Orchestra.

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(Martin was often just off-camera when these were taped, and his distinctive laugh can be heard loud and clear.) In 1968 he hosted his own hour-long comedy variety series for CBS, The Dom DeLuise Show.

Garrison also featured DeLuise in his own hour-long comedy specials for ABC. Dom's catch phrase, with an Italian accent, was 'No Applause Please, Save-a to the End.' The show went so well that DeLuise was soon a regular on Martin's program, participating in both songs and sketches. DeLuise ran through his 'Dominick the Great' routine, a riotous example of a magic act gone wrong, with host Martin as a bemused volunteer from the audience.

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TV producer Greg Garrison hired DeLuise to appear as a specialty act on The Dean Martin Show. DeLuise also voiced the legendary character of Charles Dickens' Fagin in the Walt Disney film Oliver & Company and made voice guest appearances on several animated TV series. Unlike DeLuise, however, Reynolds did not voice Charlie in any of the eventual film sequels, TV episodes, TV-episode sequels, or TV series. Barkin, the at-first reluctant hero, and DeLuise voiced Itchy Itchiford, Charlie's best friend, sidekick and later partner in business. All Dogs Go to Heaven also featured Reynolds' voice as Charlie B. DeLuise was the host of the television show Candid Camera from 1991-92.ĭeLuise also lent his distinct voice to various animated films and was a particular staple of Don Bluth's features, playing major roles in The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, A Troll in Central Park and All Dogs Go to Heaven. Together they appeared in the films The Cannonball Run and Cannonball Run II, Smokey and the Bandit II, The End, All Dogs Go to Heaven and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. In the 1970s and 1980s he often co-starred with Burt Reynolds. In his New York Times review, Vincent Canby panned the film but singled out the actor, stating, 'he best of the lot, however, is a newcomer, Dom DeLuise, as a portly, bird-brained spy.'

He gained early notice for his supporting turn in the Doris Day film The Glass Bottom Boat (1966).

His first acting credit was as a regular performer in the television show The Entertainers in 1964.

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Another member of the cast was 19-year-old Barbra Streisand.ĭeLuise generally appeared in comedic parts, although an early appearance in the movie Fail-Safe as a nervous USAF technical sergeant showed a broader range. In 1961 DeLuise played in the Off Broadway musical revue 'Another Evening with Harry Stoons' that lasted nine previews and one performance. DeLuise was Roman Catholic and had a particular devotion to the Virgin Mary. DeLuise graduated from Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts and later attended Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. He was the youngest of three children, having an older brother, Nicholas 'Nick' DeLuise, and an older sister, Antoinette DeLuise-Daurio. DeLuise was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Italian American parents Vincenza 'Jennie' (née DeStefano), a homemaker, and John DeLuise, a public employee (garbage collector).