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John Deszo Ratzenberger Wiki Biography

• John Dezso Ratzenberger, of Austrian, Hungarian, and Polish descent, was born on 6 April 1947 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. 
• He is a comedian, perhaps best known for Cliff Clavin’s role in the “Cheers” comedy TV series (1982-1993). 
• In every animated Pixar feature movie, including the Toy Story movies, “Cars” (2000), “WALL-E” (2008), etc., he is mainly known as a voice actor, offering the voice to characters. 
• He is known as an entrepreneur as well. 
• Sources say that John counts the total size of his net worth as an incredible $80 million. 
• Clearly, over time, his occupations as an actor and voice actor have gained him a significant part of his fortune. 
• His father, Deszo Alexander Ratzenberger, who worked as a truck driver, and his mother, Bertha Veronica Grohowski, a Remington Weapons worker, raised John Ratzenberger in a middle-class family. 
• After registering with St. Ann’s School in Bridgeport, he began to study acting at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. 
• He lived for 10 years in London after graduation, where he initially pursued his acting career as a member of an improvisational comedy group. 
• His net worth was built with all of these appearances. 
• John’s name became more popular in Hollywood at the beginning of the 1980s, enabling him to score Cliff Clavin’s role in the highly popular TV series “Cheers,” which lasted from 1982 to 1993, which was the main source of his net worth during that period. 
• In the 1980s, however, other appearances in such films and TV series such as “Gandhi” (1982), “House II: The Second Story” (1987), “Small World” (1988), and “Combat High” (1986), among others, also increased John’s net worth. 
• He has voiced characters in such animated films and TV series as “A Bug’s Life” (1998), “Monsters, Inc.” (2001), “Finding Nemo” (2002), “The Incredibles” (2004), “WALL-E” (2008), “Inside Out” (2015), and “The Good Dinosaur” (2015), further increasing the overall size of his net worth, to speak of his voice acting credits. 
• Besides his career as a voice actor, John continued successfully to appear in other film and TV productions; some of them include “That Darn Cat” (1997), “One Night Stand” (1997), “Mystery Woman: Redemption” (2006), “The Village Barbershop” (2008), “The Woodcarver” (2012), “Legit” (2013-2014), “Monkey Up” (2016), and most recently “Shifting Gears”, which is currently in post-production, and these all raised his net worth. 
• John is also known for being an entrepreneur, the co-owner of the Eco-Pack Business, aside from his success in the film industry. 
• In addition, he founded a foundation called Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs, which enables young people to pursue careers in the manufacturing industry. 
• With respect to his personal life, since 2012, John Ratzenberger has been married to Julie Blichfeldt. 
• He was previously married from 1984 to 2004 to Georgia Stiny, with whom he has two daughters. 
• As a Republican, John is politically engaged in his free time. 

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John Deszo Ratzenberger Trademarks

1. Has a role in every film made by Pixar studios

John Deszo Ratzenberger Quotes

• Hollywood has to, at some point, admit that what they produce does affect the minds of people…. If you just want to shock ’em… society will pay the price for that at some point.
• Wake up in the morning, put your hand to something useful, and take care of yourself and your family.

John Deszo Ratzenberger Important Facts

• He appeared in four films with Gene Hackman: A Bridge Too Far (1977), Superman (1978), Superman II (1980) and Reds (1981).
• As of 2016, has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Reds (1981), Gandhi (1982), Up (2009) and Toy Story 3 (2010). Of those, Gandhi (1982) is a winner in the category.
• Appeared in a commercial for “Quality” hotels. [2010]
• His father was of Austrian and Hungarian descent, and his mother was of Polish ancestry.
• He is a supporter of the Republican Party.
• Center for America senior fellow.
• Attended and helped construct the stage at the Woodstock Festival in 1969. Recalls that an unpopular National Guard became vital emergency personnel of the event – distributing water and food to the hundreds of thousands of attendees.
• Formerly engaged to Lindsay McGrail.
• He recently started the Nuts, Bolts and Thingamajigs Foundation, whose mission is to “Give children tools and watch them build America.”.
• He is a father of two children. One son, named James John born in 1987 and one daughter, Nina Katherine born in 1989.
• His speaking role in Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi (1982), was dubbed by Martin Sheen. Later he went on to become a trademark voice for Pixar Studios.
• Along with George Wendt, Richard Belzer and Paul Fusco, he is one of only four actors to play the same character (Clifford C. ‘Cliff’ Clavin, Jr.) in six different series: Cheers (1982), St. Elsewhere (1982), The Tortellis (1987), Wings (1990), The Simpsons (1989) and Frasier (1993). He appeared in all six series with George Wendt.
• The trading card for his Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980) character, Bren Derlin, says that “At the Mos Eisley Cantina, everybody knows his name.” Derlin is never seen in the Mos Eisley Cantina. This is an inside joke about his character Cliff Clavin the mailman, who frequents Cheers, “where everybody knows your name”.
• Spent his early years in London where he was once an assistant to a tree surgeon.
• In 1971, he helped form and organize an improvisational comedy troupe called “Sal’s Meat Market”.
• Co-wrote two British TV plays and directed several episodes of Cheers (1982).
• Active in the pro-ecological movement, he was owner and operator of Eco-Pak, a conservation-conscious packaging company.
• He does not, as believed by some, play the bagpipes but in fact plays snare drum for a pipe band called “Gold Coast Pipe Band” in which he was among the founding members.
• When last registered, he was a red belt, in karate.
• He was buried alive up to his neck in Motel Hell (1980), as was his future Cheers (1982) co-star Ted Danson in Creepshow (1982) two years later.
• The only person to voice a character in all of Pixar Animation’s feature films: as Hamm in Toy Story (1995), PT Flea in A Bug’s Life (1998), Hamm again in Toy Story 2 (1999), Abominable Snowman in Monsters, Inc. (2001), Fish School in Finding Nemo (2003), Underminer in The Incredibles (2004), Mack in Cars (2006), Mustafa in Ratatouille (2007), John in WALL·E (2008), Construction Foreman Tom in Up (2009), Hamm in Toy Story 3 (2010), Mack in _Cars 2 (2011)_, Gordon in Brave (2012), Yeti in Monsters University (2013), and Fritz in Inside Out (2015), and Earl in The Good Dinosaur (2015)_.
• Only Cheers (1982) cast member to have actually lived in Boston — specifically, the “Combat Zone” red-light district.
• In late 2000, he went to the Supreme Court with Cheers (1982) co-star George Wendt to get control of their characters (Cliff and Norm), which are wanted to be used for commercials for Cheers-like airport bars. Wendt and Ratzenberger say they created their characters and do not want them exploited.

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