Danny DeVito
- Birthplace: Neptune, New Jersey, United States
- Birthday: November 17, 1944
Diminutive (5') Danny DeVito parlayed his characteristically tough and harsh quasi-Brooklyn style of line delivery and formidable flair for the demonically comic into starring parts by the mid 1980s. His breakthrough film, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), marked his first collaboration with longtime friend Michael Douglas (who produced) and introduced him to Jack Nicholson who had grown up in the same Jersey Shore environs as had DeVito. Utterly believable as the touching and pathetic Martini, one of a fine ensemble o…more
