Dom DeLuise Biography

Fast Facts

• Parents were Italian immigrants; his father worked as a garbage collector
• Big break was playing magician Dominick the Great on The Gary Moore Show
• Costarred with Burt Reynolds in seven movies, including The Cannonball Run and Smokey and the Bandit II
• Acted in six movies directed by Mel Brooks, most memorably as Emperor Nero in History of the World---Part I
• Appeared opposite his wife and three sons in the 1983 TV-movie Happy
• Released a cookbook called Eat This
• It'll Make You Feel Better in 1988
• Authored several children's books, the first of which, Charlie the Caterpillar, was published in 1990