Robert Klein

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Biography

American stand-up comedian, singer and actor, born 8 February 1942 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA.

  • Name variations
  • Klein
  • Primary profession
  • Actor·soundtrack·writer
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 08 February 1942
  • Place of birth
  • Timișoara
  • Death date
  • 1967-04-21
  • Death age
  • 49
  • Place of death
  • Buchenwald concentration camp
  • Cause of death
  • Suicide
  • Education
  • Alfred University·DeWitt Clinton High School·Yale School of Drama
  • Knows language
  • English language
  • Member of
  • Czech Social Democratic Party

Music

Movies

TV

Books

Awards

Trivia

Was a member of the famed Second City of Chicago in the early 60s.

Was nominated for Broadways 1979 Tony Award as Best Actor for "Theyre Playing Our Song."

Sang with a group called "The Teen Tones" and, in the 1950s, appeared on "Ted Mack & the Original Amateur Hour" singing "Sunday Kind Of Love" and won.

Graduated from Alfred University in Alfred New York with a BA in History and Political Science.

Father, with Brenda Boozer , of son Alexander Stuart Klein.

Portrays the Mayor of New York City in "Sharknado 2" and "Sharknado 3". In real-life, Klein was born in New York City.

He was awarded the 1978 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Performance in a Musical for "A Theyre Playing Our Song" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

Quotes

In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us. .

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