Rodney Dangerfield: Difference between revisions

Rodney Dangerfield was born Jacob Rodney Cohen<ref name="Dangerfield sweat">{{cite web|url=https://www.today.com/popculture/rodney-dangerfields-widow-keeps-bottle-his-sweat-refrigerator-2D11641666| title=Rodney Dangerfield's widow keeps bottle of his sweat in the refrigerator| last= Abramovitch|first=Seth|date=October 14, 2016|work=[[Today (American TV program)|Today]] |access-date=August 2, 2018}}</ref> in Deerthe ParkVillage of Babylon, [[New York (state)|New York]], on November 22, 1921.<ref name=NYT>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/06/arts/06dangerfield.html|title=Rodney Dangerfield, Comic Seeking Respect, Dies at 82|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=October 6, 2004}}</ref> He was the son of [[Jews|Jewish]] parents Dorothy "Dotty" Teitelbaum and the [[Vaudeville|vaudevillian]] performer Phillip Cohen, whose stage name was Phil Roy. His mother was born in the [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian Empire]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NbaAF5Zwax0C&q=%22the+whole+family+had+come+to+america+from+hungary%22&pg=PT15 |title=It's not easy bein' me: a lifetime of no respect but plenty of sex and drugs |date=2005 |access-date=July 18, 2016|isbn= 9780061957642 |last=Dangerfield |first=Rodney |publisher=Zondervan }}</ref> Phillip Cohen was rarely home; his son normally saw him only twice a year. Late in life, Cohen begged for, and received, his son's forgiveness.<ref name=DeseretNews>{{cite news| url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=P-JYAAAAIBAJ&pg=7165,5199161&dq=rodney+dangerfield+father+was+never+home+he+was+out+looking+to+make+other+kids&hl=en|title=Dangerfield: summer-film comet|date=August 26, 1986|newspaper=[[Deseret News]]| access-date=August 26, 2013}}</ref>