Morton Downey Jr. Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Talk-show host and songwriter ("Because We're Young", "Hearts Are Wild"), composer, author, actor and singer, educated at New York University (BS) and a two-year Law School student. He was a program director and announcer at WPOP in Hartford, Connecticut, and later made several records under his birth name. Joining ASCAP in 1960, his other ...
Net Worth
$300,000
Date Of Birth
December 9, 1933
Place Of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Height
5' 8½" (1.74 m)
Profession
Actor, Soundtrack
Star Sign
Sagittarius
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Trademark
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Saying "Zip it!" to unruly guests on the show
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Chain-smoking talk show host
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Quote
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[on preparing for his 1980's talk-show] Fifteen minutes before the show, I turn on rock'n'roll music as loud as I can, and I dance behind the set, and get myself into a lather and get myself perspiring and out of breath.
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[on his longtime friend Lloyd Schoonmaker] He knows me, he knows my inner self. When I say we've done everything in life together, I mean it: Eat together, drink together, laugh together ... we've done everything together but have sex.
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[on fans of his talk-show] It isn't the rich people who come up and say, "Oh Mort, you're just great." It's the blacks and the ethnics and the blue collars, those guys with too much hair on their shoulder blades. They want some answers.
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[from a 1998 interview] Everyone says, "Well, Springer's [Jerry Springer] doing your show now." That's not true. I didn't do sleaze. There were times that I did things that were a little sleazy, but I didn't do shows on my neighbor's collie dog having sex with my neighbor's wife.
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[on his acting career in which he basically played himself] I keep getting all these "bad acting of the year" awards, but it's not really acting.
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[on his notorious 1980's talk show] It got out of control because the producers wanted me to top myself every night. If I did something outlandish on Monday night, on Tuesday night, we'd have to think of something even more outlandish. And after awhile, you work yourself toward the edge of the trampoline and you fall off. I fell off a number of times and I found it very displeasing.
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I know I have a spark that sometimes ignites my brain before the fuse of my tongue has had the opportunity to go out. But that happens to me in regular life, too.
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I am not a talk-show host. I am an advocate.
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[on his downfall in the late 1980's] I think I must have looked like one paranoid man totally out of control with my personal life. I stepped into my own manure.
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Baseball as presently played and structured is a bore.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Palmer's Pick-Up
1999
Dick Cash
Meet Wally Sparks
1997
Morton Downey Jr.
Diagnosis Murder
1996
TV Series
Carl Burke
Hollywood: The Movie
1996
Video
Carlton
Counterstrike
1993
TV Series
Monroe Park
The Silencer
1992
Michael Keating
Body Chemistry II: Voice of a Stranger
1992
Big Chuck
Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation
1992
TV Movie
University President Orrin Price
Legal Tender
1991
Mal Connery
Driving Me Crazy
1991
Taj
Monsters
1991
TV Series
Ray Bright
Predator 2
1990
Tony Pope
Thanksgiving Day
1990
TV Movie
Tales from the Crypt
1990
TV Series
Horton Rivers
True Blue
1989
TV Series
1st & Ten: The Championship
1989
TV Series
TV Show Host
Teething with Anger
1989
TV Movie
Nasty Baby
Born Again
1978
Classroom Guard
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
2012
Documentary performer: "Got a Right to Live" - as Sean Morton Downey / performer: "Hey There Mr. Dealer", "Are the Good Times Really Over?", "The Boulevard of Broken Dreams", "Lonely Man", "Zip It The Mighty Mouth Rap", "Danny Boy", "Maybe I Shouldn't Even Tell You, Just How Very Much I Really Love You" / writer: "The Loudmouth Theme Song", "Maybe I Shouldn't Even Tell You, Just How Very Much I Really Love You" / writer: "Got a Right to Live", "Lonely Man" - as Sean Morton Downey
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Crypt Keeper Presents: A Spine-Tingling Look at Tales from the Crypt
1995
Documentary short special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
CNN Talkback Live
2001
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Larry King Live
1996-1998
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Discover Wall Street
1998
TV Series
Himself - Host
Howard Stern: Shut Up and Listen
1997
Video documentary
Himself
Talked to Death
1997
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Howard Stern
1997
TV Series
Himself
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise
1995
TV Movie
Himself
Downey
1994-1995
TV Series
Himself
The Crypt Keeper Presents: A Spine-Tingling Look at Tales from the Crypt
$300,000
