According to multiple reports, actor, comedian, chef and cookbook author Dom DeLuise has passed away in Los Angeles at age 75. DeLuise starred in several Mel Brooks movies, including Blazing Saddles (above) and Spaceballs, as well as The End with Burt Reynolds, The Muppet Movie and just about every TV show taped from the 1970s through the '90s. DeLuise also appeared as Melvin P. Thorpe, the character based on late Houston TV reporter Marvin Zindler, in the 1982 film adaptation of Larry L. King'
Dom DeLuise -- actor, chef, and father of that guy who was on 21
Jump Street -- passed away Monday at the age of 75. Rather than
wallow in misery and grief at the loss of another of cinema's titans, we
prefer to look back fondly at a movie career mostly spent co-starring
alongside Gene Wilder and Burt Reynolds.5. "I always wanted to be...Captain America!" -- The Cannonball
Run (1981)
Let's be honest, the best part of any Hal Needham movie is the outtake
reel, and the Cannonball movies are the