November 13, 1949
Caryn Johnson, later known as Whoopi Goldberg, is born
in New York City.
Goldberg began acting at
age eight in children's theater productions. She dropped out of high school
during her freshman year, later citing a learning disability that teachers
mistook for retardation. She began using drugs but later cleaned up and resumed
her interest in acting. She married her substance abuse counselor and had a
daughter. She started winning small roles in Broadway shows including Jesus
Christ Superstar and Hair. Her marriage ended, and she moved with
her daughter to California, where she began performing with improv groups in
San Diego and San Francisco while earning money as a bank teller, makeup
artist, and other odd jobs.Goldberg launched a
comedy act with comedian Don Victor but was soon performing a hit solo act
called "Spook Show." She toured the country with her comedy,
eventually ending up on Broadway.
In
1985, three days after her 36th birthday, she made her movie debut in The
Color Purple, also starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover. She earned an
Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She later appeared in numerous
comedies, including Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986), and won the Best
Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as a psychic in Ghost (1990). Her
1993 comedy, Sister Act, was such a phenomenal hit that she earned $8
million for Sister Act II, which made her one of the industry's
highest-paid actresses. She briefly had her own talk show and guest-starred
regularly on Star Trek: The Next Generation. She has been married
several times and has several grandchildren.
November 15, 1929
Edward Asner is born.
Film, television, stage, and
voice actor and a former president of the Screen
Actors Guild. He is primarily known
for his Emmy Award-winning role as Lou Grant during the
1970s and early 1980s, on both The
Mary Tyler Moore Show and
its spin-off series Lou
Grant, making him one of the few
television actors to portray the same leading character in both a comedy and a
drama.
November 15, 1919
Joseph Albert Wapner is
born.
The
retired American judge and former television "judge." He is the
first star of the ongoing reality courtroom series The
People's Court. The court show's
first run in syndication, with Wapner presiding as "judge", lasted
from 1981 to 1993. This run lasted 12 seasons and 2,484 episodes. Unlike the
show's second run which has been presided over by multiple judges, Wapner was
the sole judge to preside during the court show's first run.
Wapner's tenure on the program made him the first star
of arbitration-based
reality court shows, what is now a
most popular trend in the judicial genre. Until the summer of 2013, Wapner also
held the title of longest reigning arbiter over The People's Court.
However, by completion of the court show's 2012-2013 season, Marilyn Milian captured this title from him and became the
longest-reigning judge over the series. Five years after presiding over the The
People's Court, Wapner returned
to television as a judge on the nontraditional
courtroom series, Judge Wapner's Animal Court, lasting for 2 seasons (1998-1999 and 1999-2000).
November 17, 1944
Actor and director Danny DeVito is born in Neptune,
New Jersey.
A former hairdresser,
DeVito made his stage debut in 1969. He began appearing in small movie roles,
including One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). He spent five years
playing cab dispatcher Louie De Palma on the TV sitcom Taxi. By the mid
1980s, with comedy credits like Romancing the Stone (1984) and Ruthless
People (1986), he was in high demand as a comic actor. He began directing
in 1987, with Throw Mama from the Train, followed by the hit The War
of the Roses (1989). Recent credits include L.A. Confidential (1997)
and The Rainmaker (1997). In 1994, he began producing films with great
success. His hits as producer have included, including Pulp Fiction
(1994), Get Shorty (1995) and Erin Brockovich (2000). Married to
actress Rhea Perlman, DeVito owns his own film company, Jersey Films. DeVito currently
plays Frank Reynolds on FX's critically acclaimed comedy It's Always Sunny
in Philadelphia.
November 13, 1949
Caryn Johnson, later known as Whoopi Goldberg, is born
in New York City.
Goldberg launched a
comedy act with comedian Don Victor but was soon performing a hit solo act
called "Spook Show." She toured the country with her comedy,
eventually ending up on Broadway.
In
1985, three days after her 36th birthday, she made her movie debut in The
Color Purple, also starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover. She earned an
Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She later appeared in numerous
comedies, including Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986), and won the Best
Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as a psychic in Ghost (1990). Her
1993 comedy, Sister Act, was such a phenomenal hit that she earned $8
million for Sister Act II, which made her one of the industry's
highest-paid actresses. She briefly had her own talk show and guest-starred
regularly on Star Trek: The Next Generation. She has been married
several times and has several grandchildren.
November 15, 1929
Edward Asner is born.
November 15, 1919
Joseph Albert Wapner is
born.
Wapner's tenure on the program made him the first star
of arbitration-based
reality court shows, what is now a
most popular trend in the judicial genre. Until the summer of 2013, Wapner also
held the title of longest reigning arbiter over The People's Court.
However, by completion of the court show's 2012-2013 season, Marilyn Milian captured this title from him and became the
longest-reigning judge over the series. Five years after presiding over the The
People's Court, Wapner returned
to television as a judge on the nontraditional
courtroom series, Judge Wapner's Animal Court, lasting for 2 seasons (1998-1999 and 1999-2000).
November 17, 1944
Actor and director Danny DeVito is born in Neptune, New Jersey.
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