Martin Lawrence

His filmography includes:.
. His next film was Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat in which he performed his standup comedy act. His moustache was removed in the US version of the series. He then earned $16.5 million for Black Knight (2001). In Tiziano Sclavi's comic book series Dylan Dog, the hero's sidekick and assistant is called and looks like Groucho Marx. After the success of Big Momma's House, he was paid $13 million for What's the Worst Thing That Could Happen? with Danny DeVito. Bugs Bunny befuddles Elmer Fudd memorably in "Wideo Wabbit" by imitating the mustachioed comedian in a "You Bet Your Life" parody called "You Beat Your Wife". Later he imitates Art Carney and slaps comical glasses on Elmer, admonishing "don't be such a Groucho".

The success of these movies made Lawrence quite wealthy. Dave Sim, in his controversial comic book Cerebus the Aardvark, cast Groucho as the slippery, wisecracking but indomitable Lord Julius, Grandlord of the bureaucrat-ridden City-state of Palnu. Despite his personal problems, Lawrence appeared in many popular movies such as Bad Boys with Will Smith, Nothing to Lose with Tim Robbins, Life with Eddie Murphy, Blue Streak, and Big Momma's House. Gabe Kaplan personated him in the biographical Groucho (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084031/). He went into a coma after collapsing from heat exhaustion while jogging in August 1999. Alan Alda often vamped as Groucho on M*A*S*H. While directing A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996), which he wrote, produced, and starred in, he reportedly had violent outbursts and took drugs on the set. Martin! co-star Tisha Campbell sued him for sexual harassment, and left the show during its last season. Various Groucho-like characters have lived on since Marx's death, a testament to the character's lasting appeal.

On March 28, 1997, he was arrested outside a Hollywood nightclub after a man claimed Lawrence punched him; he was ordered to perform community service. He was cremated, and the ashes were entombed in the Eden Memorial Park Cemetery in Mission Hills, California. In August 1996, he was arrested at Burbank Airport for carrying a loaded gun in his suitcase. Groucho Marx died on August 19, 1977. The divorce led to many personal problems in Lawrence's life. Groucho was a master at improvising clever insults, and became well known for this. One of his frustrations in later years was that when he insulted people who annoyed him they tended to laugh, thinking it was just part of the famous comedian's act. Southall is now married to Emmitt Smith. His stage name, "Groucho," was said to have been bestowed on him because while in Vaudeville he kept his money in a bag around his neck known as a "grouch" bag. An alternate story is that he was grouchy.

They had a daughter and divorced in 1996. In later years he grew a real mustache. He married Patricia Southall, a former Miss Virginia, on January 7, 1995. Off-stage he was bookish and stated late in life that he lamented the fact he had never finished school or gone to college. Some of the letters displaying his wit were incorporated into a book. Its crudeness, however, did not prevent You So Crazy! from becoming one of the highest-grossing concert films of all time. Throughout his career he introduced a number of memorable songs in films, including "Hooray for Captain Spaulding", "I'm Against It", "Hello I Must be Going", "Everyone Says I Love You" and "Lydia the Tattooed Lady". Crooner Frank Sinatra once quipped that the only thing he could do better than Marx was sing. The film received the NC-17 rating and was later released unrated. The show was responsible for the phrases "Say the secret word and win a prize" and "Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?".

In 1994, Lawrence released the controversial concert film, You So Crazy!. Then they would play a brief quiz. The show won a NAACP Image Award for Best Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. The show consisted of Groucho interviewing the contestants and ad libbing jokes. Martin ran to 1997, and remains in syndication. In the 1950s, he hosted the popular television program You Bet Your Life. In 1991, Lawrence worked in his first starring role in Talking Dirty After Dark. By 1992, he had his own sitcom, Martin on Fox. Groucho also worked as a radio comedian and show host in the 1930s and 1940s.

He had a more prominent role in Eddie Murphy's Boomerang, and emceed Def Comedy Jam. (See: Marx Brothers). Lawrence made his movie debut in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing and played minor roles in House Party and House Party 2. He and his brothers starred in a series of extraordinarily popular movies and stage shows, often departing from the scripts they were using. That appearance led to a role in the 1985 television series What's Happening Now!. Groucho developed a routine as a wise-cracking hustler with a distinctive chicken-walking lope and an exaggerated greasepaint moustache, improvising insults to stuffy dowagers (often played by Margaret Dumont) who stood in his way. Several years later, Lawrence got a chance to perform on Star Search. He quickly dropped the accent and developed the fast-talking wise guy character he would make famous.

He attended Eleanor Roosevelt High School while living there. However, after the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915 public anti-German sentiment was widespread, and Groucho's "German" character was booed. When his father left the family, Lawrence claims he began performing comedy to cheer-up his mother, Chlora, who was forced to cashier at various department stores to support Martin and his five siblings. For a time in vaudeville, all the brothers performed in ethnic accents; Groucho did a German accent. His family then moved to Landover, Maryland. Leonard Marx, the oldest Marx brother, developed the "Italian" accent he used as "Chico" to convince some roving bullies that he was Italian, not Jewish. When Lawrence was six, his family moved to the New York City borough of Queens. The Marx family grew up on the Upper East Side of New York City, in a small Jewish neighborhood sandwiched between Irish/German and Italian neighborhoods.

military. Julius Henry Marx, known as Groucho Marx (October 2, 1890 - August 19, 1977), was an American comedian, working both with his siblings the Marx Brothers and on his own. His father was in the U.S. This line spread to other nations as well in the 1960s and 1970s. He was born in Frankfurt. A famous French witticism was "Je suis Marxiste, tendance Groucho."; "I'm a Marxist of the Groucho variety". April 16, 1965) is an actor, comedian, and producer. [...] He is simply unique in the same way that Picasso or Stravinsky are." — Woody Allen.

Martin Lawrence (b. "Groucho Marx was the best comedian this country ever produced. Rage Control (2004) (pre production). Bad Boys II (2003). National Security (2003).

Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat (2002). Black Knight (2001) (2001). What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001). Big Momma's House (2000).

Blue Streak (1999). Life (1999). Nothing to Lose (1997). A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996).

Bad Boys (1995). You So Crazy! (1994). Martin (1992-1997). Boomerang (1992).

Talkin Dirty After Dark (1991). House Party 2 (1991). Hammer, Slammer, & Slade (1990). House Party (1990).

Do the Right Thing (1989). A Little Bit Strange (1989). What's Happening Now!! (1985).