Occupation Actor | Years active 1975–1999 | |
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Books Tangent Redemptions of an Anti-Hero Movies and TV shows Johnny Dangerously, When Things Were Rott, Let It Ride, Daddy Dearest Similar Billy Van Zandt, Norman Stiles, Amy Heckerling, Richard Lewis, Joe Pytka | ||
Richard Dimitri (born July 27, 1942) is an American character actor and comedian principally known for his roles as the twin characters of Bertram and Renaldo in the 1975 Mel Brooks-produced television show When Things Were Rotten and Roman Troy Maronie in the 1984 movie Johnny Dangerously.
He also had supporting roles in the 1977 movie The World's Greatest Lover with Gene Wilder and Carol Kane and the 1989 movie Let It Ride with Richard Dreyfuss, as well as numerous appearances television shows like the 1970s-era Hawaii Five-O, the 1977 miniseries Seventh Avenue, and the late 1990s Tracey Ullman show Tracey Takes On.
Dimitri was the first casting choice for the role of the space alien Mork on the long-running 1970s television show Happy Days, but Dimitri was fired after the first day of shooting and replaced by Robin Williams, who went on to perform that role on the spin-off show Mork and Mindy.
Dimitri was credited as a writer on the show Going Bananas, a live-action superhero show created by the Hanna-Barbera studios, and also produced and wrote a pilot for a comedy show called Roosevelt and Truman, about a pair of bail bondsmen/security guards with the names Roosevelt and Truman.