Dom DeLuise, Comedian Who Worked with Burt Reynolds and Mel Brooks, dead at 75

Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 5, 2009 - 12:46pm.

As reported in the Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES, CA – Dom DeLuise, the mirthful, moon-faced comic actor who was a regular on Dean Martin’s television variety show in the 1970s and provided frequent comedic support in movies starring Mel Brooks and Burt Reynolds, has died. He was 75.

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HollywoodChicago.com remembers one of his earliest roles, as a sad sack enlisted man forced to take over in a doomsday scenario in the 1964 nuclear war thriller, “Fail-Safe”

Read the entire obituary here.

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