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Canadian-American impressionist and vocalisation actor

Rich Little
Rich Little photo by James DeFrances 2015.jpg

Little performing as Jack Benny in 2015
Nascency name Richard Caruthers Lilliputian
Built-in (1938-11-26) November 26, 1938 (historic period 83)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Medium Stand-up comedy, tv set
Years active 1963–present
Genres Impersonations, celebrities
Spouse

Jeanne Worden

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(m. 1971; div. 1989)​


Jeannette Markey

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(grand. 1994; div. 1997)​


Marie Marotta

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(m. 2003; died 2010)​


Catherine Brown

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(m. 2012; div. 2012)​
Partner(s) Melinda Saxe (1988–1991)
Children 2
Website www.therichlittle.com

Richard Caruthers Piddling (born November 26, 1938) is a Canadian-American impressionist and vocalization histrion. Sometimes known as the "Man of a Thousand Voices", Piffling has recorded nine comedy albums and made numerous television appearances, including three HBO specials.[1]

Early life [edit]

Trivial was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the eye of three sons. His father, Lawrence Peniston Little, was a surgeon who served equally a lieutenant commander in the Purple Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve during World War II and then worked for the Department of Veterans' Affairs until his death in 1959.[2] His mother, Elizabeth Maud (née Wilson), was a housewife.[3] A 3rd-generation Canadian, he is descended from English stock on his father'southward side and Irish on his mother'south. On his mother'southward side, he is descended from John Willson, who was Speaker of the 5th Parliament of Upper Canada in the 1820s. His paternal great-grandad, William Carruthers Trivial, was a Liberal-Conservative Fellow member of Parliament in the Canadian Firm of Eatables from 1867 to 1881.[ii]

He attended Lisgar Collegiate Constitute. In his early teens, he formed a partnership with Geoff Scott, another budding impressionist (and hereafter elected politico), concentrating on reproducing the voices of Canadian politicians such as Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and Ottawa mayor Charlotte Whitton.

Career [edit]

Early career in Ottawa [edit]

Starting when he was eleven, Little acted in two documentary movies for Crawley Films of Ottawa.[2]

Little was an conductor at the Elgin Movie Theatre in Ottawa, where he perfected his voices while standing at the dorsum of the theatre. He started his amateur interim career at the Ottawa Little Theatre, winning his first acting award at the Eastern Ontario Drama Festival in Deep River, Ontario. At 17, his friend and fellow impressionist Geoff Scott and he won a talent contest on CBOT in Ottawa, the first time he was paid for his impressionist skills, which led to an advent on Pick the Stars, a national talent contest broadcast by CBC Television in 1956.[4] They then appeared on The Jackie Rae Show during the 1956–57 season.[5]

Piddling and Scott'south comedy squad performed at various local events and venues. Still in their teens, they developed a 10-minute deed that they performed at Shriners' conventions and Knights of Columbus meetings.[vi] Scott later entered journalism, and ultimately politics.[ii]

Little became a relief announcer on Ottawa radio station CFRA and performed comedy sketches with Les Lye on Lye's morning show, before being hired as a disc jockey on CJET in Smiths Falls, Ontario. His afternoon-evening shift ran from four to 8 pm weekdays, and the evidence gave him the opportunity to use his impressions on the air.[4] [two] By the 1960s, Piffling was taking his act to Toronto, where he performed at coffee houses and other venues.[half-dozen]

In 1963, Little issued two LPs through the Canadian sectionalisation of Capitol Records: My Fellow Canadians with Les Lye. The album was inspired past Vaughn Meader's striking American satirical album The First Family unit and concentrated on Canadian political satire, featuring Picayune impersonating figures well-known to a Canadian audience such as Diefenbaker, Lester Pearson and Tommy Douglas, and Scrooge and the Stars, which featured Little acting out Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol entirely on his ain, playing all the roles as 22 dissimilar Hollywood stars, ranging from Jack Benny to Jack Webb. The album was released in early November, but information technology had to exist withdrawn a few weeks later due to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, as Fiddling had imitated JFK in the part of the Spirit of Christmas Present and had Kennedy say the line "Scrooge, my life upon the globe is brief; it ends tonight. In fact, it ends as fast as y'all can say your name."[two]

Breaking into the US [edit]

Footling's beginning performance in the United states was in Dec 1963 at Guy Lombardo'southward inn and country club in Tierra Verde, Florida.[two]

Little's American career was helped by Peppiatt and Aylesworth, a Canadian writing team who had moved to Hollywood and worked on various specials and multifariousness series, including The Judy Garland Show. Familiar with Little'due south work in Canada, Peppiat had worked on The Jackie Rae Show on which Little made a television set appearance at 17, and the team had written for Little'south Canadian nightclub act. They played a recording of Little for Garland, and the evidence's musical managing director, Mel Tormé, and they encouraged her to audition him. Tormé had met Trivial when they both performed in a CBC Television set diverseness testify in Toronto, and bonded over their love of erstwhile movies.[6]

The audience won him the job, and in January 1964, Little made his American goggle box debut on CBS'due south The Judy Garland Bear witness, where he impressed Garland by imitating various male celebrities, including James Mason, who had been Garland's co-star in A Star Is Born.[seven] [two] Television appearances on variety shows hosted past Ed Sullivan, Jackie Gleason, Rudy Vallee, Mike Douglas, George Burns, and Al Hirt followed over the side by side two years.[2]

Peppiatt and Aylesworth also helped bring Piddling on to other American shows for which they wrote, such as The Jimmy Dean Show, The Kopykats, and The Julie Andrews Hour and continued to write material for his act after he moved to the The states permanently at the end of 1965.[two]

In Canada, Little starred in his own show The Rich Little Show, on CBC Radio in 1966.[two] He also made his starting time appearances on The Dean Martin Show and The Jimmy Dean Bear witness during the 1965–1966 season.[two]

In 1965, Little provided the vox for the Pink Panther in two cartoons, Sink Pink and Pinkish Ice; these two cartoons were made by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises to experiment with giving the Panther dialogue, opposite to him ordinarily being mute.

In 1966 and 1967, Fiddling appeared in ABC-TV's Judy Carne sitcom Love on a Rooftop every bit the Willises' eccentric neighbour, Stan Parker. He appeared on That Girl in 1967 as a writer who impressed Marlo Thomas' character with his impersonations. He also made two memorable appearances as blow-prone Brother Paul Leonardi on The Flight Nun in 1968; it marked one of his few appearances as a character actor rather than an impressionist. In 1969, he appeared in an episode of Petticoat Junction as newly engaged fiancé to Billie Jo in "Billie Jo and the Large Big Star".

Nixon [edit]

Little was most notable for impressions of U.S. President Richard Nixon. During the 1970s, Little made many television appearances portraying Nixon, and once performed his impersonation in front of Nixon himself, whom Little says did not realize he was imitating him at all and "wondered why I was talking to him in such a funny voice."[viii] In 1972, he portrayed Richard Nixon with the vocalization and mannerisms of Oliver Hardy in Another Squeamish Mess.[9] Little afterwards appeared as Nixon on the soap opera Santa Barbara, in a 1991 fantasy sequence regarding Gina's platonic sperm donor.[ citation needed ]

In 2020, Niggling developed Trial on the Potomac: The Impeachment of Richard Nixon, a one-human being show based on the 2015 book The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down by Geoff Shepard, alleging a conspiracy to remove Nixon from office.[10]

1970s [edit]

Little was also a semiregular on the Emmy-winning ABC-TV variety series The Julie Andrews Hour in 1972–73. In response to his faux of Jack Benny, the comedian sent Little an eighteen-carat gold coin clip containing this bulletin: "With Bob Hope doing my walk and y'all doing my voice, I tin be a star and exercise naught." He was named "Comedy Star of the Twelvemonth" past the American Order of Multifariousness Artists in 1974.

Trivial's best-known continuing Telly series was The Kopycats, hour-long segments of The ABC Comedy 60 minutes, broadcast in 1972. Taped in England, these comedy-variety shows consisted entirely of glory impersonations, with the actors in full costume and makeup for every sketch. The cast included Petty, Frank Gorshin, Marilyn Michaels, George Kirby, British comedian Joe Baker, Fred Travalena, Charlie Callas, and Peter Goodwright.

Little was a regular invitee on The Dean Martin Glory Roasts in the 1970s, appearing in 24 of the specials,[11] where he roasted celebrities such as Don Rickles,[12] Jack Benny,[13] Johnny Carson,[fourteen] Frank Sinatra,[xv] Jimmy Stewart[16] and Kirk Douglas.[17]

The Rich Lilliputian Show (1976) on NBC and The New You Asked for It (1981) were attempts to present Lilliputian in his own person, away from his gallery of characterizations. Trivial too appeared on a second-season episode of The Muppet Prove.[xviii]

The 1978 one-homo bear witness Rich Little'south Christmas Carol was his get-go HBO special, produced by and originally aired on CBC Television set, Little portrayed famous comedians in established roles (W. C. Fields as Ebenezer Scrooge, Paul Lynde equally Bob Cratchit, et al.).

1980s [edit]

In 1981, Niggling appeared in a comedy LP called The Showtime Family unit Rides Over again, which was the fourth and final of the Offset Family unit comedy LPs originally created by Bob Booker and Earle Doud. Niggling starred along with Melanie Chartoff, Michael Richards, Shelly Blackness, Jenilee Harrison, Earle Doud, and Vaughn Meader, making light of U.Due south. President Ronald Reagan's showtime few months in the White House.

Another HBO special followed in 1983 with Rich Little's Robin Hood, including portrayals of Groucho Marx as Robin Hood, Humphrey Bogart as Prince John, John Wayne as Little John, Ballad Channing as Maid Marion, Laurel and Hardy as Sheriffs of Nottingham, George Burns as Alan-a-Dale, and various other characters.

Exterior of any comedic context, Little's talent for impersonation has been used in movies when an actor's dialogue was dumb past poor wellness. When David Niven proved as well ill for his vox to be used in his appearances in Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) and Curse of the Pinkish Panther (1983), Lilliputian provided the overdub as an imitation of Niven's voice. He performed similar duties to dub an imitation of James Cagney'due south stroke-dumb voice in the 1984 TV moving picture Terrible Joe Moran [ citation needed ] and in the 1991 TV special Christmas at the Movies by providing an uncredited dub for role player/dancer Cistron Kelly, who had lost his vocalisation.[19]

He also lent his phonation to the narration of three specials that were the forerunners for the animated series The Raccoons: The Christmas Raccoons, The Raccoons on Water ice, and The Raccoons and the Lost Star.[20]

In 1987, during the We the People 200: The Constitutional Gala goggle box special, Little personified various historical figures, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Edward R. Murrow, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. Piddling's functioning was described every bit eclectic, impersonating Henry Fonda as Abraham Lincoln and doing Winston Churchill giving a rousing spoken communication.[21] [22]

The This evening Show [edit]

Little was a frequent guest on variety and talk shows in the 1960s and 1970s, and had an unofficial monthly slot on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for several years, and too guest hosted the program well-nigh a dozen times.[vi] He developed an impression of Johnny Carson, capturing The Tonight Bear witness host's vocalization and many onstage mannerisms, and later played Carson in the HBO Television receiver movie The Late Shift. Footling'due south spot-on impersonation allegedly got under the thin skin of Carson, and he was permanently banned from appearing on the This evening Show without notice or reason afterward his Baronial 1982 appearance. Trivial claims in his biography that he was banned considering Carson was offended by his impression, and this claim was supported by Henry Bushkin, Carson's long-fourth dimension lawyer, who stated that nobody got under Carson's skin more than than Trivial.[23] Little had been doing the impression since the early 1970s, though, a decade prior to his bookings on the bear witness coming to an terminate, including performing the impression to the This evening Show' host'south face when Carson was the guest of honor at The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast of Johnny Carson in 1973.[24] In response to Little's claims, Fred DeCordova, Carson'due south producer, said they just were not interested in hiring him any more due to his lack of new impressions.[25]

Las Vegas and afterwards career [edit]

Little has been appearing in Las Vegas since the mid-1960s, when he had dates at the Golden Nugget[2] and went on to play at other Vegas venues such every bit The Sands, where he debuted in 1969 with a two-year contract. In 1973, he performed at Caesars Palace for four weeks every bit the opening act for The Osmonds. He so appeared at the Desert Inn with Juliet Prowse for a month in 1974. His appearances continued throughout the 1970s and 1980s; he headlined at the Desert Inn for eight years in the tardily 1970s and 1980s, at the MGM 1000 with Nell Carter in 1985; at Bally's, with Charo in 1986; the Sands in 1991 and 1992, and at the Golden Asset once again in 1991.[11]

With opportunities for him to piece of work in television set and motion-picture show in decline, and his tv work almost completely drying upward by the mid-1980s, the focus of Little'south career shifted from Hollywood to Las Vegas.[6] The decline in his career was blamed in function on him not having updated his repertory of impressions with younger voices, a fact he blames on recent generations of actors using a naturalistic delivery that makes their voices less distinctive. "It's much easier to exercise Humphrey Bogart than Tom Cruise," he said. "How practise you imitate Brad Pitt? George Clooney? Wouldn't mean anything."[6]

Niggling sold his house in Los Angeles and relocated to Las Vegas in 1990, and bought a abode in 1992,[26] when he signed an exclusive, long-term contract with the Sahara, staging a revamped version of The Kopykats with other impersonators. He later moved to Paris Las Vegas, where he starred in The Presidents, a play on 9 Presidents of the U.s.a. from Kennedy to George W. Bush, starting in 2002.[11] In 2004, he moved to the Suncoast.[11]

In the early 2010s, he performed a one-man evidence, Jimmy Stewart and Friends, based on the life of Jimmy Stewart, at the Westgate hotel, and on bout.[6] Subsequently the death of his friend Jimmy Stewart in the belatedly 1990s, Rich recorded the crosswalk messages for intersections in Stewart's hometown of Indiana, Pennsylvania, using his imitation of the star's voice.

Since 2015, Little has been a regular performer at the Laugh Mill in the Tropicana hotel in Las Vegas.[27] His ane-hour show, Rich Little Live!, is a career retrospective including video highlights from his TV career, and is performed v nights a week.[28] Throughout the show, he displays many of the charcoal sketches he has drawn of the celebrities he has impersonated.[27] [29]

Fiddling was the host for the 2007 White House Correspondents' Clan dinner. Although President George Due west. Bush was reported to have enjoyed Little'due south functioning, information technology was panned by some reviewers for "his aboriginal jokes and impressions of dead people (Johnny Carson, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan)."[30] [31] [32]

Little voices every bit a guest star in Futurama such equally Futurama: Bough'southward Game, playing his ain celebrity head: "This is Rich Little, impersonating Howard Cosell." Many times, he plays a sports commentator. In 1998, Little was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame, and was inducted into the Casino Legends Hall of Fame in 1999, and was given a star on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars in 2005.[11]

In 2017, Niggling released his memoir, Little by Little: People I Have Known and Been.[28] In 2021, CBS News Sunday Forenoon profiled Little; during the interview, he stated he believed it was the showtime time he had been on network television in 30 years, and hoped it would "get over well!" [33]

in 2018, he appeared as himself in the documentary They'll Dear Me When I'm Dead about Orson Welles' terminal film The Other Side of the Current of air. Little was in the original 1970 bandage but left for other commitments and his scenes were reshot using Peter Bogdanovich playing part. Bogdanovich completed directing the film in 2018 later Welles died in 1985.[34] Little is credited as a party invitee in The Other Side of the Wind.

Other interests [edit]

Niggling has been active in several charities, including the Juvenile Diabetes Fund and the Children'due south Miracle Network. He has been named to Miami Children's Hospital International Pediatrics Hall of Fame and been honoured by the naming of the Rich Little Special Intendance Nursery at Ottawa Borough Hospital. He has been a major supporter in helping veterans through the Gary Sinise Foundation.

Personal life [edit]

Footling was engaged to Canadian actress Jean Christopher in 1965, simply they did not end up marrying.[2]

Little was married to Jeanne Worden, whom he met when she was working every bit a secretary on The Joey Bishop Show, in 1971. The couple had a daughter together, Bria, before their divorce in 1989.[35] Picayune had a brief human relationship with Lalette Cottrell, of Delaware; the couple had a daughter together, Lyndsay (born 1988).[36]

Little was engaged to magician Melinda Saxe, just she broke off the three-year relationship in 1991, maxim she had discovered he had secretly videotaped them having sexual practice in 1988. Saxe sued Little for defamation, invasion of privacy, and inflicting emotional distress, claiming he had joked about their human relationship on stage.[37] Little claimed the videotaping was consensual.[38] [39] The lawsuit was eventually settled out of court.[35]

He married comedian and impressionist Jeannette Markey in 1994;[forty] they divorced in 1997. He was married to Marie Marotta from 2003 until her expiry in 2010 of a deliberate overdose of sleeping pills afterwards years of suffering from migraines and chronic pain.[41] He married his fourth wife, Catherine Dark-brown, a former reality show contestant,[42] in a private anniversary in 2012; they divorced in October later that year.[43]

In 1998, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him.[44]

In 2010, Piffling became a naturalized denizen of the Usa.[45] [26]

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Master impersonator Rich Niggling to perform at UCCC". 28 February 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d east f g h i j k l yard n Gilmour, Clyde (November xv, 1965). "RICH LITTLE alias just about everybody". Maclean's Magazine . Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  3. ^ "Rich Little Biography (1938-)". Filmreference.com. Retrieved 2014-07-xv .
  4. ^ a b "Rich Little". Canadian Communication Foundation . Retrieved 29 October 2018.
  5. ^ "Jackie Rae | the Canadian Encyclopedia".
  6. ^ a b c d due east f grand "A Spot-On Impression of a Stubborn Survivor". New York Times. January 17, 2013. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
  7. ^ Rich Little on Judy Garland Testify, 1964, eight min.
  8. ^ "Rich Little recalls working alongside Judy Garland, Lucille Ball: 'Both were instrumental in my career'". Fox News. January 2, 2019. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
  9. ^ Puchalski, Steven. "Another Nice Mess (1972)". Stupor Movie theatre. Shock Cinema Magazine. Retrieved November xv, 2020.
  10. ^ "Rich Little Offers Vegas NIXON Preview Before Runs in New York & D.C." Broadway World. February 26, 2020. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
  11. ^ a b c d e "Impersonator's goal is to brand audience think of someone else". Las Vegas Review-Periodical. August 9, 2009. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
  12. ^ gregsmithsr (22 January 2010). "vi Rich Lilliputian Roasts Rickles.m4v". Archived from the original on 2021-12-22 – via YouTube.
  13. ^ Briana Tarango (6 July 2014). "Rich Little Roast Jack Benny". Archived from the original on 2021-12-22 – via YouTube.
  14. ^ "YouTube". www.youtube.com. [ dead YouTube link ]
  15. ^ "YouTube". www.youtube.com. [ dead YouTube link ]
  16. ^ "YouTube". world wide web.youtube.com. [ dead YouTube link ]
  17. ^ Derrel Maness (19 December 2013). "Rich Little roasts Kirk Douglasipad". Archived from the original on 2021-12-22 – via YouTube.
  18. ^ Garlen, Jennifer C.; Graham, Anissa M. (2009). Kermit Culture: Disquisitional Perspectives on Jim Henson'south Muppets. McFarland & Company. p. 218. ISBN978-0786442591.
  19. ^ Matsuda, Donna (26 June 2012). "Express mirth a Lot or a "Lilliputian": An interview with Rich Little, the human of a thousand voices". San Diego Drama King . Retrieved 17 Oct 2012.
  20. ^ The Christmas Raccoons on YouTube, The Raccoons On Water ice on YouTube and The Raccoons and the Lost Star on YouTube
  21. ^ Levin, Daniel. Representing Pop Sovereignty: The Constitution in American Political Civilization, State Univ. of New York Press (1999) p. 94
  22. ^ "Rich Little impersonates historical figures, 1987, half-dozen min.
  23. ^ "Surprising Facts From The Johnny Carson Bear witness". www.heraldweekly.com.
  24. ^ "Rich Little: 'Human being of a Thousand Voices'". 26 Nov 2020.
  25. ^ Brook, Marilyn. "Rich Fiddling Left Out of 'This night'".
  26. ^ a b Ryon, Ruth (July 31, 1994). "Big Names Buy Petty House". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  27. ^ a b "Rich Lilliputian brings his cavalcade of celebrity impersonations back to the Las Vegas stage". Los Angeles Times. June 25, 2015. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
  28. ^ a b "Rich Little: 'Little past Little'". Washington Times. Jan 23, 2017. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
  29. ^ "Rich Petty still impresses".
  30. ^ Akers, Mary Ann (23 April 2007). "Rich Little Bravely Answers Washington's Call". Blog.washingtonpost.com.
  31. ^ Adams, Richard (23 Apr 2007). "Every solar day is a whining Rove". Blogs.guardian.co.united kingdom.
  32. ^ Harper, Tim (23 Apr 2007). "Jokes leave Washington a Little cold". The Toronto Star.
  33. ^ "Rich Lilliputian: Nonetheless making a great impression". CBS News.
  34. ^ "Rich Little on working with Orson Welles on THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND". 29 October 2010.
  35. ^ a b "Laugh Lines". Ottawa Citizen. August 19, 2007. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  36. ^ "NAMES IN THE NEWS : Rich Fiddling Files for Custody". Los Angeles Times. 1990-02-23. Archived from the original on 2019-08-05. Retrieved 2020-08-22 .
  37. ^ "Woman SAYS RICH LITTLE VIDEOTAPED LOVEMAKING". Orlando Sentinel. January 5, 1992. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  38. ^ Macy, Robert (Jan 22, 1992). "Rich Piddling Says Seamy Saga Probable to Continue". Associated Printing. Associated Press. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  39. ^ "Little to supersede ex-fiancee at hotel". Tulsa World. Associated Press. January 17, 1992. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  40. ^ "Marrying Rich". People. Nov fourteen, 1994. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  41. ^ Lofaro, Tony (sixteen July 2010). "Rich Little's wife dies of apparent overdose". The Ottawa Citizen.
  42. ^ "Rich Little plans fourth marriage". Las Vegas Review-Journal. September 8, 2011. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  43. ^ Lofaro, Tony (18 June 2012). "Rich Little remarries, finds new bride on the web". The Ottawa Citizen.
  44. ^ "Palm Springs Walk of Stars past date dedicated" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-10-13. Retrieved 2014-07-15 .
  45. ^ "Impressionist Rich Little becomes U.Southward. citizen". CBC News. Associated Press. January viii, 2010. Retrieved November 16, 2015.

External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • Rich Picayune at IMDb
  • "Talktails #031: The Homo of A Thou Voices -- Rich Little". YouTube. Vegas Video Network. Jul three, 2012. Archived from the original on 2021-12-22.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Little

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