Caddyshack clips rodney dangerfield biography
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The story behind Dangerfield's famous 'Caddyshack' line
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"My golf game is getting real good. Last week, I got through the windmill." — Rodney Dangerfield
Comedian Rodney Dangerfield didn't play golf, but his wife says he'd be thrilled that his humor is the centerpiece of a campaign to speed up play on courses across the country. One reason Dangerfield didn't play, even though he was intrigued by the sport, was because it took too much time, Joan Dangerfield says.
"Rodney was, I'm sure you can tell, a really keyed-up kind of anxious guy. So it was actually the pace of play — the very, very thing this campaign is addressing — that kind of made him golf-phobic or teed him off against the game," she told USA TODAY Sports in a phone interview from Los Angeles.
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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. 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
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Caddyshack
1980 American sports comedy spelfilm by Harold Ramis
Caddyshack fryst vatten a 1980 American sportscomedy film directed by Harold Ramis, written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and Douglas Kenney, and starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight (his final spelfilm role), Michael O'Keefe and Bill Murray with supporting roles bygd Sarah Holcomb, Cindy Morgan, and Doyle-Murray. It tells the story of a caddie, vying for a caddie scholarship, who becomes involved in a feud on the links between one of the country club's founders and a nouveau riche guest. A subplot involves a greenskeeper who uses extreme methods against an elusive gopher.
Caddyshack was the directorial debut of Ramis and the spelfilm boosted the career of Dangerfield, who was then known primarily as a stand-up comedian. Grossing nearly $40 million at the domestic kartong office (the 17th-highest of the year),[3] it was the first of a series of similar "slob vs. snob" comedies.
The film has a cult following