Billy Crystal (natural March 14, 1947) is an American actor, writer, producer, and film director.

Crystal was innate around Long Beach, New York to Jewish-American parents Jack and Helen Crystal. His father worked at, & late managed, a Commodore Music Shop. His uncle was record producer Milt Gabler. He has been married to Janice Goldfinger, using whom he has deuce girl, since 1970. He attend Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia on a baseball scholarship, however a program was come by his second-month year.

Career
Crystal returned to Just released York & deliberate film & television counsel under Martin Scorsese at New York University. Crystal's earliest large role wwhen as "Jodie Dallas" in Soap, one of the 1st gay characters portrayed on Western television.

He was scheduled to pop up on the number 1 episode of Saturday Night Live (October 11, 1975), but his sketch was cut. When hosting the indicate years later on, within 1984, he joined the cast. His best known recurring sketch was his parody of Fernando Lamas. Crystal's "Fernando" occurs as soapy talkshow unsuspecting hosts whose catch phrase, "You look mahvelous!" became the media sensation.

He appeared briefly within Rob Reiner's 1984 "rockumentary" This Is Spinal Tap.

Crystal wrote, directed & starred within Forget Paris (1995) and Mr. Saturday Night (1992).

Within 1986, Crystal started hosting Comic Relief on HBO with Robin Williams, and Whoopi Goldberg. Comic Relief, which was founded inside 1986 by Andy Kaufman sidekick Bob Zmuda, raises money for homeless men, women and babies in the United States.

Crystal hosted a Academy Awards broadcast in 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2004.

When you took a 1992 Oscar broadcast, Crystal at one point in a period of a indicate, browsed squarely at the camera & said, "Didn't inhale". Sir thomas more thus than the comment all about so Presidential candidate Bill Clinton (who got disbelievingly claimed that he "..didn't inhale" whenever smoking marijuana). A line is considered by occasionally when one of a funniest lines within Academy Awards history.

Crystal is brace oneself for the national tour of his hit solo indicate 700 Sundays. Them-work play, which he conceived & wrote, is all about his parents & his childhood growing au fait Long Island. Crystal won a 2005 Tony Award for Best Favorite Theatrical Event for 700 Sundays & provides the indicate back to Broadway for a limited dog around 2006.

Crystal has performed twice using Pixar, once in 2001's Monsters, Inc. and once in their 2005 dub of Studio Ghibli's adaptation of ''Howl's Moving Castle.

In Tuesday September 6, 2005 on The Tonight Show Crystal and Jay Leno were the number one celebrities to sign the Harley-Davidson motorcycle to be auctioneer for Gulf Coast relief.

Filmography
Rabbit Test - (1978) as "Lionel Carpenter" Animalympics - (1980) (voiceover) as "Lodge Turkell" This Is Spinal Tap - (1984) as "Morty the Mime" Running Scared - (1986) as "Danny Costanzo" The Princess Bride - (1987) as "Miracle Max" Throw Momma from the Train - (1987) as "Larry Donner" Memories of Me - (1988) as Abbie When Harry Met Sally - (1989) as "Harry Burns" City Slickers (1991) as "Mitch Robbins" Horton Hatches the Egg (1992) (voiceover) narrator Mr. Saturday Night (1992) as "Buddy Young, Jr." ''City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994) as "Mitch Robbins" Forget Paris (1995) as "Mickey Gordon" (as well directed by Billy Crystal) Hamlet (1996) as "First Gravedigger" Deconstructing Harry (1997) as "Larry/The Devil" My Giant'' (1998) as "Sam 'Sammy' Kamin" Analyze This (1999) as "Ben Sobel, M.D." ''America's Sweethearts (2001) as "Lee Phillips" Monsters, Inc. (2001) (voiceover) as "Michael Wazowski" Analyze That (2002) as "Ben Sobel, M.D." ''Howl's Moving Castle'' (2005) (voiceover) as "Calcifer"