# Whatever happenned to Danny Devito? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happenned-to-danny-devito/294872 "2005-03-16T20:47:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happenned-to-danny-devito/294872/1 "2005-03-16T20:47:23Z")
He was in reasonably good films - Romancing the Stone, Jewel of the Nile, Get Shorty - and then a series of films that have largely sunk. He seemed a better than reasonable actor, does he just have poor judgement in scripts? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happenned-to-danny-devito/294872/2 "2005-03-16T20:53:11Z")
How many roles are open to a guy who looks like him? He’s not exactly a matinee idol type. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happenned-to-danny-devito/294872/3 "2005-03-16T21:00:42Z")
He seems to be more of a producer now, with his company Jersey Films. I most recently noticed his name in front of Garden State and Be Cool (the sequel to Get Shorty, in which he also reprised his role). ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happenned-to-danny-devito/294872/4 "2005-03-16T21:05:10Z")
He was in _Big Fish_, which did okay, and he’s currently in _Be Cool_ (I don’t know how this film is doing). He also had directed and produced films. He may have ended his directing career by doing _Death to Smoochy_, but he’s still producing stuff. His recent productions include _Along Came Polly_, _Be Cool_ and _Garden State_, plus TV series _Karen Sisco_ and _Reno: 911_. So he’s keeping busy. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happenned-to-danny-devito/294872/5 "2005-03-16T21:43:51Z")
Whatever happened to him? He’s been doing steady work on up to 4 movies a year since 1980, with two exceptions. (1982 and 1990) 5 in 2005! Check out his [IMDB listing](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000362/). He’s showing no sign of slowing down. ---
**Author:** ![YellowTail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5ac83/32.png) [@YellowTail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YellowTail)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happenned-to-danny-devito/294872/6 "2005-03-17T00:15:10Z")
What a co-winky-dink. I was just watching Terms of Endearment last night and he’s in it. Possible hijack: did he do this movie before he was in Taxi? ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happenned-to-danny-devito/294872/7 "2005-03-17T04:02:20Z")
No. Taxi first aired in 1978; _Terms of Endearment_ was released in 1983. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happenned-to-danny-devito/294872/8 "2005-03-17T04:27:56Z")
Yes but both he and Christopher Loyd (Jim from Taxi) were in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happenned-to-danny-devito/294872/9 "2005-03-17T07:47:29Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Check out his [IMDB listing](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000362/). He’s showing no sign of slowing down. That was the first thing I did, but I didn’t spot any significant roles in significant films past Get Shorty. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happenned-to-danny-devito/294872/10 "2005-03-17T07:49:19Z")
Well, he is frequently overlooked. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happenned-to-danny-devito/294872/11 "2005-03-17T10:22:24Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > That was the first thing I did, but I didn’t spot any significant roles in significant films past Get Shorty. \*\*L.A. Confidential? Man on the Moon? Heist? Big Fish? \*\* All of those were fairly large films by major directors. Sure, he’s also in a lot of crap, but those were mainly small (ha!) parts. The man has to work, after all. He’s a character actor - albeit a famous one - not a “movie star,” and that’s what character actors do. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happenned-to-danny-devito/294872/12 "2005-03-17T12:55:39Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Yes but both he and Christopher Loyd (Jim from Taxi) were in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. So was Brad Dourif (Wormtongue in RotK), Vincent Schiavelli (tall very odd looking guy who you might remember as a teacher in _Fast Times at Ridgemont High_ or as the Subway guy in _Ghost_), Scatman Crothers and Michael Berryman (alien looking dude who is in the motorcycle gang in _Weird Science_ That movie was chockful of character actors; if Kevin Bacon had only been in it we would have 3 degrees of Kevin Bacon. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happenned-to-danny-devito/294872/13 "2005-03-17T14:25:44Z")
Batman Returned. Penquins ate him. **SlithyTove:** You suck.