1. Rip Taylor's father died when he was two years old.
26 Facts About Rip Taylor
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Rip Taylor worked as a congressional page before serving in the Korean War; he was in the US Army Signal Corps.
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Rip Taylor found he could get a bigger response that way.
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Rip Taylor's bookings started to get more upscale and he played all over Miami Beach, Florida, which had become a winter destination for the wealthy.
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Rip Taylor was a mainstay in the summer playground of the wealthy in the Catskills Mountains.
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Rip Taylor would spend a week's salary on champagne to get the audience boisterous.
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Rip Taylor first appeared on the show in 1961 and made about twenty appearances.
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Rip Taylor was the opener for Eleanor Powell's dance-focused revue, and would go on to warm up audiences for headliners Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr.
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Rip Taylor appeared in two 1968 episodes of The Monkees as well as having a cameo in their 1969 special.
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Rip Taylor continued to work as a voice performer in the 1970s cartoon series Here Comes the Grump, as the title character, and in the second edition of The Addams Family cartoon series in 1992, as the voice of Uncle Fester.
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Rip Taylor became a regular on Sid and Marty Krofft's Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, playing Sheldon, a sea-genie who lived in a conch shell.
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Rip Taylor appeared as a celebrity on the 1990 version of Match Game.
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Rip Taylor appeared as himself in the movie Wayne's World 2, one of the special guests invited to "WayneStock" after being visited in a dream by Jim Morrison.
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Rip Taylor appeared uncredited on a December 1994 edition of WWF Monday Night Raw.
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Rip Taylor assisted another wrestler and they pushed Jeff Jarrett.
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In 1997, Rip Taylor appeared in a segment on the show Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction.
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Rip Taylor portrayed Chief Undersecretary Wartle in the graphical adventure game Zork: Grand Inquisitor in 1997.
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Rip Taylor is in some episodes of The Emperor's New School as the voice of the Royal Record Keeper.
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In 1995, Rip Taylor performed the intro for the Bloodhound Gang's Use Your Fingers album.
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Rip Taylor made occasional appearances in movies, usually in broad comedies like The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington and the R-rated Deep Throat parody Chatterbox.
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In 1992, Rip Taylor voiced Captain Kiddie in Tom and Jerry: The Movie.
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In 1981, Rip Taylor appeared on Broadway when he replaced Mickey Rooney in the burlesque-themed musical comedy Sugar Babies.
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Rip Taylor was a frequent co-star with Debbie Reynolds in her live shows in Las Vegas; Reno, Nevada; and Lake Tahoe.
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In 2005, Rip Taylor appeared as the grand marshal of the Washington, DC, Capital Pride parade.
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Rip Taylor cut the ribbon at the Las Vegas estate auction of Liberace's belongings and personal effects in 1988.
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Rip Taylor died on October 6,2019, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, having been hospitalized for an epileptic seizure the week prior.