Rip Taylor

Rip Taylor was born on Jan 13, 1931 in USA. Rip Taylor's big-screen debut came with I'd Rather Be Rich directed by Jack Smight in 1964, strarring Airline Ticket Agent. Rip Taylor is known for The Aquabats! Super Show! directed by Jason deVilliers, Mr. Lawrence stars as Announcer and Christian Jacobs as The MC Bat Commander. The most recent award Rip Taylor achieved is Walk of Fame. The upcoming new movie Rip Taylor plays is Silent But Deadly which will be released on Feb 14, 2014.

The nicknames, "The Prince of Pandemonium", "The Master of Mayhem" and "King of Camp and Confetti", are but a few valid applications that were thrust upon zany comedian Rip Taylor, whose flamboyant blend of burlesque and self-deprecating humor entertained audiences for over four decades. He headlined the top showrooms of Las Vegas, appeared on scores of television shows, starred in various musical stage slapstick comedies and even toyed with dramatic material over the years.He was born Charles Elmer Taylor, Jr. in Washington, D.C., on January 13, 1931 to Charles Elmer Taylor Sr. and Elizabeth Evans Taylor. He began his career by tossing out one-liners in nightclubs and had his first big break on Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town (1948) TV show in 1964. The tacky costumes, ridiculous props, handlebar mustache, wacky wigs and manic confetti-tossing didn't take long to follow as professional trademarks, and they soon made their way into the 1970s pop culture.Frequently appearing on television, he appeared in everything from variety shows to talk shows (Merv Griffin and David Letterman) to sitcoms like The Monkees (1966). He was the gag man who delightfully wrangled out of every groan-inducing one-liner there was, eventually finding the perfect avenue for his brand of insanity via producer Chuck Barris and his syndicated TV shows of the 1970s and 1980s. Rip became a favorite panelist judge, along with Jaye P. Morgan, on Barris' The Gong Show (1976), and later served as host of the equally tacky The $1.98 Beauty Show (1978).A mainstay in Las Vegas, whether as ringleader of a topless chorus line or opening act to a major entertainer, Rip also slayed 'em on Broadway ("Sugar Babies") and has demonstrated a fine singing instrument in musicals including "Anything Goes", "Oliver!" (as "Fagan"), "Peter Pan" (as "Captain Hook") and in a 1999 production of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" (as "Pseudolus").On a more serious side, he played Demi Moore's crusty boss in Proposition indécente (1993) and showed up sans confetti as Kate Hudson's father in the Rob Reiner feature, Alex & Emma (2003).For the most part, he continued merrily in such campy films as Barris' The Gong Show Movie (1980); the "Exorcist" spoof, L'exorciste en folie (1990), with Linda Blair and Leslie Nielsen; the foreign-made Le silence des jambons (1994)and Jackass: Le film (2002). Beginning in the early 1960s, when he first provided additional voices for Les Jetsons (1962), Rip continued making voice-over work a viable means of income. His voice can be heard in such animated films as La Bande à Picsou, le film : Le Trésor de la lampe perdue (1990), Tom et Jerry: la grande évasion (1992) and Scoubidou et le Monstre du Mexique (2003), and animated TV series as Qu'est-il arrivé à... Robot Jones? (2002) and Kuzco, un empereur à l'école (2006). He was nominated for an Emmy award for voicing "Uncle Fester" in the TV cartoon program, The Addams Family (1992).Having suffered an epileptic seizure the week prior, 88-year-old Rip died of congestive heart failure on October 6, 2019, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Once briefly married to Las Vegas showgirl Rusty Rowe, whom he divorced in the early 1960s, Rip was involved in a long-term relationship with Robert Fortney at the time of his death.