Rodney Dangerfield
22-Nov-1921
United States
Actor
Rodney Dangerfield (formerly Jacob Cohen) was born November 22, 1921, in Babylon, New York. He started making high-quality jokes in his youth as "Jack Roy," but finding out that comics didn't pay the bills, he spent the 1950s working as a salesman. The re-entry of the show's business in the early 1960s as "Rodney Dangerfield," has earned even more respect. He opened the Dangerfield comedy club in the 1970s and starred in a series of comedy films in the 1980s including Caddyshack. Dangerfield died in 2004.