John Paragon
- Schauspiel
- 9. Dezember 1954 · Los Angeles, California, USA
- 3. April 2021
Biografie
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Dixon Paragon (born 9 December 1954) is an American actor, writer, and director. He was born in Anchorage, Alaska, on an Army base. He grew up and attended schools in Fort Collins, Colorado. Paragon is probably best known for his work on children's show Pee-wee's Playhouse where he played Jambi the Genie and voiced Pterri the Pterodactyl. In addition to writing many of the regular season episodes of Playhouse, Paragon also co-wrote (with Paul Reubens) the acclaimed Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special in 1988, for which they were nominated an Emmy Award for Best Writing in a Children's Special. Some of Paragon's other memorable roles include Cedric, one half of the gay couple Bob and Cedric on the television series Seinfeld; the title character in the children's movie The Frog Prince; the sex shop salesman in the cult favorite Eating Raoul; and the owner of a Strip-o-gram business in the 1986 film Echo Park. Paragon got his start in the Los Angeles-based improvisation group The Groundlings alongside Reubens and Phil Hartman. He also collaborated with fellow Groundling Cassandra Peterson on numerous Elvira projects, including the recurring role of The Breather, an annoying caller, for her first television series on KHJ-TV-Los Angeles. In recent years, Paragon has worked with Walt Disney Imagineering on ways to incorporate improvisational performance into attractions at Disney parks. In this capacity, he performed as the keeper of Lucky the Dinosaur during the test runs of the animatronic figure. Paragon returned to his performance as Jambi the Genie in the Broadway outing of the new Pee-wee Herman stage show that began performances 26 October 2010 at the Stephen Sondheim Theater. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Paragon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmografie
- Pee-wee's Big Holiday · TV Cameraman
- The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway · Jambi
- Red Riding Hood - Rotkäppchen kehrt zurück · Fisherman
- Elvira's Haunted Hills · Buch
- Tödliche Verschwörung · Maitre D'
- Night Stand with Dick Dietrick
- The Babysitters · Regie, Buch
- High Tide · Regie
- Storybook Cinema
- Every Breath · Director
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine · Bokar
- The Elvira Show · Renfield (Stimme), Buch
- Der Ring der Musketiere · Regie
- Renegade - Gnadenlose Jagd · Regie
- Liebling, jetzt haben wir ein Riesenbaby · Lab Technician
- Double Trouble · FBI Agent, Regie
- Palm Beach Duo · Regie
- Harry und die Hendersons · Arnold
- UHF - Sender mit beschränkter Hoffnung · Richard Fletcher
- Seinfeld · Cedric
- Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special · Jambi / Pterri (Stimme), Buch
- Elvira - Herrscherin der Dunkelheit · Gas Station Attendant, Buch
- Spaceballs · Dink (voice) (uncredited)
- Der Froschkönig · Ribbit / Prince of Freedly
- Sledge Hammer! · Durward Monroe
- Pee-wee's Playhouse · Jambi, Regie
- Leo & Liz in Beverly Hills
- Echo Park · Hugo
- Cheech & Chong - Jetzt hats sich ausgeraucht! · Robert Walters, Additional Writing
- Pee-Wee’s irre Abenteuer · Movie Lot Actor
- Last of the Great Survivors · Beef
- Auf die Bäume, ihr Affen · Rooster
- The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show
- The Paragon of Comedy · Dr Berger / Debbie / Mr Excitement / Ramone Azteca and others, Buch
- Cheers · Grif Palmer
- Madame’s · Holistic Doctor
- Cheech & Chong - Im Dauerstress · Red Carpet Man #1
- The Facts
- Freitag der 713. · Prisoner
- Eating Raoul · Sex Shop Salesman
- Elvira's Movie Macabre · Breather
- The Pee-wee Herman Show · Jambi the Genie, Buch
- Cheech & Chong - Noch mehr Rauch um überhaupt nichts · Director (Groundling)
- Saturday Night Live · Pterri (voice) (uncredited), Buch