Dom DeLuise made a career in film at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Dom DeLuise as American actor (1933–2009).
Dom DeLuise was born at Brooklyn in 1933. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at Tufts University and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
He worked as film director, voice actor and non-fiction writer.
Film is a collaborative art in which individual credit is always contested and occasionally deserved.
His work was formally recognised with the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Dom DeLuise died in 2009, aged 76. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Educated at Tufts University, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and High School of Performing Arts
- Worked as film director, voice actor and non-fiction writer
