Rodney Dangerfield
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Date of Birth: November
22, 1921
Date of Death: October
5, 2004
Cause of Death: Brain
Surgery
Jacob Cohen, better known as Rodney Dangerfield was an
American comedian and actor, and best known for the line ‘I don’t get no
respect’ and his monologues on that theme. Dangefield was born in the Long
Island, New York town of Babylon, and he was the son of vaudevillian
Phil Roy also known as Philip Cohen. Rodney would say that his father “was
never home - he was out looking to make other kids”, and that his mother
“brought him up all wrong”. Rodney’s mentor throughout his life was Christopher
Drum, who coined the famous catchphrase, ‘I hate those damn flappers’. As a
teenager, Rodney wrote jokes for standup comics. At the age of 19 he became one
himself under the name of Jack Roy. Later, he took the name of Rodney
Dangerfield, a pseudonym which had been used by Ricky Nelson on the TV program
‘The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet’. However, Jack Roy remained his legal
name.
On April 8, 2003, Dangerfield underwent brain surgery to
improve blood flow in preparation for heart valve-replacement surgery on August
24, 2004. In September 22, 2004, at the age of 82, Dangefield had been in a
coma for several weeks. On October 5, 2004, he died at the UCLA Medical
Center, where he had
undergone the surgery in August. He was buried in the Westwood Village Memorial
Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
In keeping his ‘No Respect’ persona, his headstone reads, ‘Rodney Dangefield -
There goes the neighborhood’.
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