Why Famous:Best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. He began his career as a stand-up comic and as a writer for the early TV variety show "Your Show of Shows".
In middle age he became one of the most successful film directors of the 1970s.
He is on the short list of entertainers who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony award.
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