A huge loss

"I'm actually a thin serious person but I play fat and funny, but only for the movies."

Dom DeLuise is dead. Such a loss to the world of comedy.

Most famous, of course, for his collaborations with Mel Brooks, his early career was in children's TV, starring in The Shari Lewis Show among others before landing his own show. This led to a series of comic stooge parts on the big screen, often starring alongside real-life friends such as Burt Reynolds and Dean Martin.

Mel brooks once famously quipped that, whenever he hired Dom DeLuise for one of his films, he would instinctively add another two days to the schedule because of the constant laughter Dom provided on the set -- especially when the camera started rolling.



More recently, he returned to work aimed at children, providing voiceovers for cartoons such as Duckman and Disney's Hercules, and published two children's books.

Here is just a sample of his huge screen presence. RIP.

Caesar's Treasure Bath

Dom DeLuise on IMDB