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ACTOR

Rob Schneider

Known for
Judge Dredd (1995), The Hot Chick (2002), Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999), The Animal (2001)

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Rob Schneider is an actor best known for Judge Dredd, The Hot Chick and Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.

29 Interesting Facts About Rob Schneider

  1. #001

    Rob Schneider got into a shouting match with film critic Patrick Goldstein over Goldstein's mocking views of his films, questioning his qualifications to comment since he had never won a journalism award. Fellow critic Roger Ebert joined the argument, noting that he himself had won the Pulitzer Prize for film criticism and therefore Schneider had no right to say "Your film sucks." Despite the conflict, when Ebert fell seriously ill, Schneider sent him a large bouquet of flowers with a note reading "Your least favorite actor, Rob Schneider." Ebert was so moved by the gesture that he said Schneider was a good man despite the quality of his films and that he hoped to see him in a good film he could praise.

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    Rob Schneider was the emergency guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) after Charlie Sheen abruptly canceled on the day he was scheduled. Schneider, who was filming Men Behaving Badly (1996) on the adjacent stage, gladly accepted the request to fill in for Sheen on very short notice.

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    Rob Schneider and comedian Adam Sandler are close friends and appear in each other's films: The Hot Chick (2002), The Animal (2001), Little Nicky (2000) and Big Daddy (1999).

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  4. #005

    Rob Schneider's daughter Elle King appeared as a Girl Scout selling cookies in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999).

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  5. #007

    Rob Schneider does impersonations of roughly 50 celebrities, along with odd voices.

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  6. #008

    On The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992), Rob Schneider appeared in drag as actress Lindsay Lohan when Lohan canceled.

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  7. #010

    Rob Schneider owns a prized painting of Jack Lord of Hawaii Five-O (1968), whom he saw walking through the lobby during a family vacation in Oahu when he was 8 years old. He found the portrait in a vintage store in San Francisco.

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  8. #011

    Rob Schneider has been inspired by the work of Monty Python, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder and Peter Sellers.

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  9. #012

    Saturday Night Live (1975) producer Lorne Michaels saw Rob Schneider in 1990 on HBO's 13th Annual Young Comedians Special (1989) and signed him to SNL as a writer.

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  10. #013

    Rob Schneider drives the same silver Porsche Carrera cabriolet he used in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999).

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  11. #014

    Rob Schneider honed his acting at San Francisco comedy clubs, where names such as Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld and Dana Carvey also performed.

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  12. #015

    Rob Schneider is good friends with actor Adam Sandler.

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  13. #016

    Rob Schneider is the youngest of five children.

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  14. #017

    Rob Schneider has a collection of Hawaiian shirts.

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  15. #019

    Rob Schneider is a San Francisco Giants fan.

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  16. #020

    Rob Schneider made his debut in 1987 with an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman (1982).

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  17. #022

    Rob Schneider likes to wear 1970s clothing.

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  18. #023

    Rob Schneider has a two-bedroom apartment in Nob Hill in San Francisco.

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  19. #030

    Rob Schneider became an outspoken critic of vaccines and made the debunked claim that vaccines cause autism.

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  20. #031

    Rob Schneider is a big fan of the San Francisco 49ers.

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  21. #033

    After casting Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern for Home Alone (1990), Chris Columbus felt confident enough to cast actors with growing followings, such as Catherine O'Hara, whose work on SCTV (1976) he had seen, John Heard, and later Tim Curry and Schneider in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), because they were all open to the film.

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  22. #036

    Rob Schneider spends most of his evenings hanging out with friends working on scripts.

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  23. #037

    Rob Schneider is a friend of Dick Gregory.

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  24. #038

    Rob Schneider was born on exactly the same date as Dermot Mulroney (of "Young Guns" fame).

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  25. #039

    Rob Schneider provided commentary for a professional wrestling event.

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  26. #040

    In April 2005, Rob Schneider attended WWE's WrestleMania 21 (2005) event.

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  27. #041

    In the early 2000s, Rob Schneider fell out with actor and comedian David Spade. Adam Sandler cast both Schneider and Spade in The Benchwarmers (2006) specifically so they could work together and patch things up.

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  28. #042

    Rob Schneider shares his Halloween birthday with John Candy, Michael Landon, Piper Perabo, Dermot Mulroney, Justin Chatwin, Brian Doyle-Murray, Bill Greene and Peter Jackson.

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  29. #043

    Rob Schneider has no connection whatsoever to disgraced TV writer and producer Dan Schneider.

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