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BILLY CRYSTAL ~ A Comedian with HeartA Comedian with Heart
BILLY CRYSTAL ~ A Comedian with HeartA Comedian with Heart
BILLY CRYSTAL ~ A Comedian with Heart
BILLY CRYSTAL ~
William Edward Crystal (born March With the decline of Dixieland jazz and blockbuster Pixar film Monsters, Inc. (2001), earning a World Series ring in 2001
when the Diamondbacks beat his
14, 1948) is an American actor, comedian, the rise of discount record stores, in and reprised his voice role in the prequel, beloved Yankees.
writer, producer, director, and television 1963 Crystal’s father lost his business Monsters University, which was released in In City Slickers, Crystal wears a
host. He gained prominence in the 1970s and died later that year at the age of 54 June 2013. Crystal also provided the voice of New York Mets baseball cap. In the
and 80s for television roles as Jodie Dallas after suffering a heart attack while Calcifer in the English version of Hayao 1986 film Running Scared, his character
on the ABC sitcom Soap and as a cast bowling. His mother, Helen Crystal, Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle (2004). is an avid Chicago Cubs fan, wearing a
member and frequent host of Saturday died in 2001. Crystal won the 2005 Tony Award for Best Cubs’ jersey in several scenes. In the
Night Live. He then became a Hollywood He graduated from NYU in 1970 with Special Theatrical Event for 700 Sundays, a two- 2012 film Parental Guidance, his
film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, a BFA from its School of Fine Arts, not act, one-man play, which he conceived and character is the announcer for the
appearing in the critical and box office yet named for the Tisch family. One of wrote about his parents and his childhood Fresno Grizzlies, a Minor League
successes The Princess Bride (1987), Throw his instructors was Martin Scorsese, growing up on Long Island. He toured Baseball team, and aspires to announce
Momma from the Train (1987), When while Oliver Stone and Christopher throughout the US with the show in 2006 and for their Major League affiliate, the San
Harry Met Sally... (1989), City Slickers Guest were among his classmates. then Australia in 2007. Francisco Giants.
(1991), Mr. Saturday Night (1992) and Reiner directed Crystal for a third Following the initial success of the play, Crystal appeared in Ken Burns’s 1994
Analyze This (1999), and providing the time in the romantic comedy When Crystal wrote the book 700 Sundays for Warner documentary Baseball, telling personal
voice of Mike Wazowski in the Monsters, Harry Met Sally... (1989), in which Books, which was published on October 31, stories about his life-long love of
Inc. films, starting in 2001. He will reprise Crystal starred alongside Meg Ryan and 2005. In conjunction with the book and the play baseball, including meeting Casey
his role in the upcoming Disney series for which he was nominated for a that also paid tribute to his uncle, Milt Gabler, Stengel as a child and Ted Williams as
Monsters at Work (2020) Golden Globe. The film has since Crystal produced two CD compilations: Billy an adult.
For his work, he received numerous become an iconic classic for the genre Crystal Presents: The Milt Gabler Story, which
Crystal is also a longtime Los
accolades, including six Primetime Emmy and is Crystal’s most celebrated film. featured his uncle’s most influential recordings Angeles Clippers fan and season
Awards, a Tony Award, a Mark Twain Crystal then starred in the award- from Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” to “Rock ticketholder.
Prize and a star on the Hollywood Walk winning buddy comedy City Slickers Around the Clock” by Bill Haley & His Crystal and his wife Janice (née
of Fame in 1991. He has hosted the (1991), which proved very successful Comets; and Billy Remembers Billie featuring Goldfinger) married in June 1970, have
Academy Awards nine times, beginning both commercially and critically and for Crystal’s favorite Holiday recordings. two daughters, actress Jennifer and
in 1990 and most recently in 2012. which Crystal was nominated for his In 1986, Crystal started hosting Comic Relief producer Lindsay, and are
Crystal is Jewish (his family emigrated second Golden Globe. on HBO with Robin Williams and Whoopi
from Austria and Russia), and he grew up He directed the made-for-television Goldberg. Founded by Bob Zmuda, Comic grandparents. They reside in the Los
Angeles neighborhood of Pacific
attending Temple Emanu-El (Long Beach, movie 61* (2001) based on Roger Maris’s Relief raises money for homeless people in the Palisades, California.
New York) where he was Bar Mitzvahed. and Mickey Mantle’s race to break Babe United States.
The three young brothers would entertain Ruth’s single-season home run record in Crystal has participated in the Simon Billy Crystal’s Net Worth is
by reprising comedy routines from the 1961. This earned Crystal an Emmy Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance in Los estimated at $45 Million.
likes of Bob Newhart, Rich Little and Sid nomination for Outstanding Directing Angeles. Crystal’s personal history is featured Cover photo and copy: Wikipedia/
Caesar records their father would bring for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special. in the “Finding Our Families, Finding Creative commons
home. Jazz artists such as Arvell Shaw, Crystal later went on to provide the Ourselves” exhibit in the genealogy wing of Greetings
Pee Wee Russell, Eddie Condon, and Billie voice of Mike Wazowski in the the museum. From
Holiday were often guests in the home. On March 12, 2008, Crystal signed a one-day the
minor league contract to play with the New Editor...
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