History Creator / DomDeluise

In addition to his acting, [=DeLuise=] had a successful second career as a gourmet cook, publishing two cookbooks, ''Eat This... It'll Make You Feel Better'' and ''Eat This Too!'', as well as an instructional CD-ROM, ''Cooking With Dom [=Deluise=]''. He managed to have fun with this in his acting work by [[ActorAllusion playing characters who were either involved in the culinary arts or liked to cook]].

* ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'' - Bernie The Agent
* ''Film/TheCannonballRun'' - Victor Prinzim a.k.a. Captain Chaos

* ''WesternAnimation/LionOfOz'' - Oscar Diggs/Wizard of Oz

He has three sons, two of whom (Creator/{{Peter|DeLuise}} and Creator/{{Michael|DeLuise}}) became featured players of the early Fox TV series, ''Series/TwentyOneJumpStreet'', and a third (Creator/{{David|DeLuise}}) who has an [[Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace interesting]] [[WesternAnimation/MegasXLR resume]] [[WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles himself.]]

He has three sons, two of whom (Peter and Michael) became featured players of the early Fox TV series, ''Series/TwentyOneJumpStreet'', and a third (David) who has an [[Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace interesting]] [[WesternAnimation/MegasXLR resume]] [[WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles himself.]]

* BigFun

* NiceGuy

* ''Literature/PeterNoTail'' (1981, [[DuelingDubs 1983 American English dub]]) - Additional voices

Recognized instantly by young moviegoers of the Eighties and Nineties for his constantly wheezing voice and constantly cheerful, if quirky, disposition, Dominick "Dom" [=DeLuise=] (August 1, 1933 -- May 4, 2009) first started his acting profession on stage, his first role being Tinker the toymaker in a local children's program, soon moving on to comedies like the off-Broadway "The Jackass", where he truly started to shine. In fact, former partner Creator/MelBrooks once quipped that when he hired Dom for one of his films, he would "instinctively add another two days to the schedule because of the constant laughter Dom provided on the set". Along with Brooks, Dom frequently worked with Creator/DonBluth, and was frequently the only actor to [[RoleReprise reprise their characters]] in the many DirectToVideo sequels they received.

* ''Disney/OliverAndCompany'' - Fagin

[=DeLuise=] died on May 4, 2009 of kidney failure and respiratory complications from cancer.

Recognized instantly by young moviegoers of the Eighties and Nineties for his constantly wheezing voice and constantly cheerful, if quirky, disposition, Dominick "Dom" [=DeLuise=] (August 1, 1933 -- May 4, 2009) first started his acting profession on stage, his first role being Tinker the toymaker in a local children's program, soon moving on to comedies like the off-Broadway "The Jackass", where he truly started to shine. In fact, former partner Creator/MelBrooks once quipped that when he hired Dom for one of his films, he would "instinctively add another two days to the schedule because of the constant laughter Dom provided on the set". Along with Brooks, Dom frequently worked with Creator/DonBluth, and was frequently the only actor to [[RoleReprisal reprise their characters]] in the many DirectToVideo sequels they received.

* ''TheTwelveChairs'' - Father Fyodor

* ''Series/TheMunsters'' - Replaced Paul Lynde as Dr. Dudley in the character's final appearance.

* TheDanza: Sort of. He was cast in ''Film/SilentMovie'' as Dom Bell.

* ProductionPosse: He's frequently teamed up with Creator/DonBluth or Creator/MelBrooks. Also appeared in 3 of the 5 films that his friend Creator/GeneWilder directed.

!!Works Dom Deluise has appeared in:

* ProductionPosse: He's frequently teamed up with Creator/DonBluth or Creator/MelBrooks. Also appeared in 3 of the 5 films that his friend GeneWilder directed.

Recognized instantly by young moviegoers of the Eighties and Nineties for his constantly wheezing voice and constantly cheerful, if quirky, disposition, Dominick "Dom" [=DeLuise=] (August 1, 1933 -- May 4, 2009) first started his acting profession on stage, his first role being Tinker the toymaker in a local children's program, soon moving on to comedies like the off-Broadway "The Jackass", where he truly started to shine. In fact, former partner Creator/MelBrooks once quipped that when he hired Dom for one of his films, he would "instinctively add another two days to the schedule because of the constant laughter Dom provided on the set". Along with Brooks, Dom frequently worked with Creator/DonBluth, and was known to [[RoleReprisal reprise the characters]] he voiced in just about every sequel or TV series they later appeared in.