Fowl Play: Danny DeVito

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DANNY DE VITO

He appeared as Oswald Cobblepot/ The Penguin in Batman Returns.

''My name is not Oswald… It's Penguin… I'm not a human being… I'm an animal! Cold Blooded!''

REAL NAME:	Danny Michael DeVito
HEIGHT:	1,50 approx.
BORN:	Nov. 17, 1944
BIRTHPLACE:	Neptune, New Jersey, USA
FAMILY:	Married forever to Cheers' pint-sized barmaid Rhea Perlman, DeVito and his wife have campaigned quietly for years to promote children's rights.

HOW could such a likeable star transform into such a hideous freak? HOW many American male movie stars are barely five feet tall? Or went from the Wilfred Academy of Hair and Beauty Culture to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts? If you were Danny DeVito, you'd have developed a sense of humor, too.

Originally a hairdresser ("Mr. Danny") at his sister's salon, DeVito appeared in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest on-stage, and then in the 1975 film version, with Jack Nicholson. A few years later, he came into our living rooms as the repulsive, apoplectic, hilarious Louie DiPalma on Taxi, and he emerged five years later on the silver screen as a popular comic actor. After a memorable turn in Ruthless People (1986), his manic, frantic roles got bigger, as did his appetite for control. He was directing by 1987's Throw Momma From the Train, then waddling as the Penguin in Batman Returns (1992), organizing labor in Hoffa (1992), and getting irradiated by aliens in Mars Attacks! (1996). The year 1997 delivered up some of the best roles of DeVito's career: apart from providing the voice for Phil the satyr in Disney's animated mythological camp Hercules, he played the editor of a scandal rag in Curtis Hanson's adaptation of James Ellroy's sprawling crime novel, L.A. Confidential and he co-starred alongside newcomer Matt Damon as an unlicensed ambulance-chasing lawyer in Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of John Grisham's The Rainmaker.

Today, Mr. Danny is one of the most powerful players in Hollywood, not only as an actor, but as a producer and director. In recent years, DeVito's Jersey films produced Steven Soderbergh's successful big-screen adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Out of Sight, which starred George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez; and he teamed with filmmaker Milos Forman to develop Man on the Moon, a 1999 biopic about the late comedian Andy Kaufman, his Taxi co-star.

FILMOGRAPHY: (Unless noted otherwise, these are acting credits)
2001	What's the Worst That Could Happen?
2001	The Caveman's Valentine	Producer
2000	Drowning Mona	Actor and executive producer.
2000	Erin Brockovich	Producer
2000	The Virgin Suicides
2000	The Big Kahuna
2000	Screwed
1999	Man on the Moon	Actor and Producer.
1998	Out of Sight	Producer. Starring G. Clooney and M. Keaton.
1998	Living Out Loud	Actor and Producer.
1998	The Pentagon Wars	Executive Producer.
1997	Gattaca	Producer. Starring Uma Thurman.
1997	L.A. Confidential	With Kim Basinger.
1997	Hercules	Voice of Philoctetes
1997	The Rainmaker
1996	Feeling Minnesota	Producer
1996	Sunset Park	Producer
1996	Matilda	Actor, Director and Producer.
1996	Space Jam	Voice of Swackhammer
1996	Mars Attacks	Directed by Tim Burton. With Jack Nicholson.
1995	Get Shorty	Actor, Producer.
1994	Reality Bites.	Producer.
1994	Renaissance Man
1994	Junior	With Arnold Schwarzenegger.
1994	Pulp Fiction	Executive Producer.
1993	Look Who's Talking Now	Voice of Rocks.
1993	Last Action Hero	Voice of Whiskers.
1993	Jack The Bear
1992	Batman Returns	Oswald Cobblepot/ The Penguin
1992	Hoffa	Actor, Director, Producer. With Jack Nicholson.
1991	Other People's Money
1989	The War of the Roses	Actor, Director
1988	Twins	With Arnold Schwarzenegger.
1987	Throw Momma from the Train	Actor, Director
1987	Tin Men
1986	My Little Pony
1986	Ruthless People
1986	Wise Guys
1986	Head Office
1985	The Jewel of the Nile
1984	Johnny Dangerously	With Michael Keaton.
1984	Romancing the Stone
1983	Terms of Endearment
1981	Going Ape!
1978	Goin' South
1977	The Vain
1977	The World's Greatest Lover
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	With Jack Nicholson.
1973	Hurry Up or I'll be 30
1973	Scalawag
1972	Lady Liberty
1969	Dreams of Glass

TELEVISION: (Unless noted otherwise, these are acting credits)
1994	The Larry Sanders Show	Series. Guest Appearance.
1985	Amazing Stories	(Director, Actor in ''The Wedding Ring'' episode)
1985	Mary	Directed episode.
1984	The Ratings Game	TV-Movie. Director.
1979	Valentine	TV-Movie
1978-1983	Taxi	Actor, Director
1977	Police Woman	''Death Game'' episode.
1977	Starsky and Hutch	''The Collector'' episode.