DANNY DEVITO (Harvey), an actor, producer and director, most recently finished directing "Duplex," starring Drew Barrymore and Ben Stiller.
In 1992 DeVito co-founded Jersey Films, which has produced over 20 motion pictures, including "Erin Brockovich," which earned an Academy Award® nomination for Best Picture, "Man on the Moon," "Pulp Fiction," "Out of Sight," "Get Shorty," "Hoffa," "Matilda" and "Living Out Loud."
DeVito co-starred in two Academy Award®-winning Best Pictures, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest" and "Terms of Endearment," before the part of Louie De Palma propelled him to national prominence as the star of the hit television show "Taxi." In a 1999 readers poll conducted by TV Guide, DeVito’s Louie De Palma was voted number one in "TV’s Fifty Greatest Character’s Ever."
Following "Taxi" and before the creation of Jersey Films, DeVito starred in such films as "Junior," "Batman Returns," "Twins," "Romancing the Stone," "Jewel of the Nile," "Ruthless People" and "Tin Men." He has since starred in many films not produced by Jersey, including "Big Fish," "Renaissance Man," "The Big Kahuna," and "Heist."
DeVito grew up in Summit, New Jersey, and studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. He began his career on the stage in one of three one-act plays presented together under the title of "The Man With the Flower in His Mouth." He went on to appear in such plays as "Down the Morning Line," "The Line of Least Existence," "The Shrinking Bride" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest."
In 1975, under a grant from the American Film Institute, Danny and his wife, actress Rhea Perlman, wrote and produced "Minestrone," which has been shown twice at the Cannes Film Festival and has been translated into five languages. They later wrote and produced a 16-millimeter black-and-white short subject, "The Sound Sleeper," which won first prize at the Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association competition. DeVito also wrote, directed and produced several short films in his early career before his emergence as a feature-length filmmaker in 1984.
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