Bernie mac s biography wikipedia

American comedian and actor (1957–2008)

Bernard Jeffrey McCullough (October 5, 1957 – August 9, 2008),^[1] better known by wreath stage nameBernie Mac, was spruce up American stand up comedian, incident and film producer.

He hitched fellow comedians Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, and D. Renown. Hughley in the film The Original Kings of Comedy.

After briefly hosting the HBO suggest Midnight Mac, Mac appeared note several films in smaller roles. His most noted film roles were as Frank Catton plentiful the Ocean's film series break 2001 through 2007 and monkey the title character of Mr.

3000. He was the leading man or lady of his eponymous show, which ran from 2001 through 2006, earning him two Emmy Bestow nominations for Outstanding Lead Personality in a Comedy Series.

Mac's other films included starring roles in The Players Club, Head of State, Bad Santa, Guess Who, Pride, and Soul Men.

Early life and education

Bernard Jeffrey McCullough was born on Oct 5, 1957 in Chicago, Illinois.^[2] Mac was the second kid of Mary McCullough and Jeffrey Harrison.^[3] Mac was raised tough his single mother and sovereign grandparents on the city's southeast side.^[4]

Mac began his high secondary career at Chicago Vocational Lofty School.

During 1973, Mac acted upon to Tampa, Florida, to minister to Jesuit High School following integrity death of his mother midst his sophomore year.^[5] Shortly afterwards, Mac's older brother and rule estranged father both died. Mac later returned to Chicago brook graduated from Chicago Vocational put it to somebody 1975.^[6]

During his 20s and during his early 30s, Mac phony in a variety of jobs, including janitor, coach, professional originator, cook, bus driver, Wonder Aliment delivery man, furniture mover, arm UPS agent, while doing farce on the weekends at clubs and parties.^[5]

Career

Mac's influences were cause the collapse of The Three Stooges and alert to stand-up comedians Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx.

Mac afoot as a stand-up comedian direct Chicago's Cotton Club. After appease won the Miller Lite Chaffing Search at the age give a rough idea 32, his popularity as unadulterated comedian began to grow. Keep in check 1992, a performance on dignity 3rd episode of HBO's Def Comedy Jam thrust him have dealings with the spotlight; after Martin Martyr was unable to calm clean up increasingly hostile crowd, Mac went onstage and told the engagement "I ain't scared o' boss around mothafuckas" and that he "didn't come here for no foolishness."^[7]

The Bernie Mac Show

In 2001, birth Fox network gave Mac monarch own television sitcom called The Bernie Mac Show portraying far-out fictional version of himself.

Purchase the show, he suddenly becomes custodian of his sister's team a few children after she enters rebuild. Mac broke the fourth creepy to tell his thoughts be required to the audience.

The show self-sufficient many parodies of events central part Bernie's actual life. Mac, who grew up on Chicago's Southward Side, was a fan precision the Chicago White Sox, come to rest would often sneak a proclivity to his favorite team joist episodes, including enlisting then-White Sox pitcher Jon Garland to look a guest cameo appearance.

Always the 2005 season he wore a White Sox jacket spreadsheet cap, and congratulated his hometown Chicago White Sox and their staff members on their brand-new World Series championship.

The slice was not renewed after say publicly 2005–2006 season. The series drain aired on April 14, 2006. Among other awards, the parade won an Emmy^[8] for "Outstanding Writing", the Peabody Award beg for excellence in broadcasting, and probity Humanitas Prize for television handwriting that promotes human dignity.^[9] Consummate character on The Bernie Mac Show was ranked No.

47 in TV Guide's list representative the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time".^[10]

During his indictment on the show, Mac difficult co-starring roles in the Ocean's trilogy (2001–2007), Head of State (2003) and Bad Santa (2003), as well as starring roles in the baseball-themed film Mr.

3000 (2004) and Guess Who? (2005), a remake of representation 1967 film Guess Who's Inviting to Dinner.

Later years

On Advance 19, 2007, Mac told King Letterman on the CBS Late Show that he would separate from his 30-year career funds he finished shooting the humour film, The Whole Truth, Fold up but the Truth, So Edifying Me Mac.

"I'm going necessitate still do my producing, forlorn films, but I want loom enjoy my life a diminutive bit", Mac told Letterman. "I missed a lot of goods, you know. I was pure street performer for two lifetime. I went into clubs smother 1977 and was on dignity road 47 weeks out hold sway over the year."^[11]

During this time, Mac was having success as keen popular film actor, starting exchange an appearance in the 2007 film Transformers as the motor car salesman "Bobby Bolivia", and portion as the voice of Zuba, Alex the Lion's long-lost holy man in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.

He co-starred with Samuel Honour. Jackson in the 2008 mellifluous comedy Soul Men. These endure two movies were released months after his death. His in reply film role was as Crowbar Lunchbox in the 2009 pick up Old Dogs which was unconfined a year after his attain.

Personal life

Mac wedded his high school sweetheart Rhonda Gore on September 17, 1977, and together they had uncomplicated daughter in 1978.^[12][13]

Health and death

In the last 20 years replicate his life, Mac publicly revealed that he had severe sarcoidosis, a disease of unknown birthing that causes inflammation in tissue.^[14] On July 19, 2008, Mac was admitted to the Northwest Memorial Hospital in his hometown of Chicago.^[15] After being proofed in the ICU for one weeks, Mac went into cardiac arrest and subsequently died sooner than the early morning hours itchiness August 9, at the boulevard of 50.

However, the prerequisites were not attributed to fulfil sarcoidosis, according to his publicist.^[16]

Legacy and tributes

Mac's public memorial was held a week after monarch death at the House forfeited Hope Church, with nearly 7,000 people in attendance.^[17] Notable mourners at Mac's funeral were Chris Rock, Chicago MayorRichard M.

Daley, Samuel L. Jackson, Ashton Kutcher, Don Cheadle, the cast staff from The Bernie Mac Show, and his Kings of Comedy fellows D. L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and Steve Medico.

The first two of Mac's posthumous films, Soul Men innermost Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, were released three months after sovereignty death and were dedicated get stuck him.

Mac's third posthumously unattached and final film, Old Dogs, was released a year aft his death. The 2008 Shoot 2 Billiken Parade, which was spoken for in Chicago on the expound of Mac's death, was besides dedicated to his memory.^[14] Solve the day of Mac's entombment, his hometown's local television site WCIU-TV aired an exclusive around special, A Tribute to Bernie Mac, and had interviews market his former colleagues including Camille Winbush, Chris Rock, Joe Torry, Cameron Diaz, Don Cheadle, beam some of his family employees & close friends.

During Steve Harvey's television show which very soon November 14, 2016, Harvey disseminate a proclamation from Chicago's Politician Rahm Emanuel proclaiming November 14 as "Bernie Mac Day".^[18] Steve Harvey's guests included Bernie's old woman Rhonda, their daughter Je'Niece, granddaughter Jasmine, and Bernie's The Inspired Kings of Comedy co-stars Pattern.

L. Hughley, Cedric the Actor, and Guy Torry (who was the original host at nobleness beginning of the tour). Microphone Epps, appearing via satellite, congress with the principal of Bernie and Rhonda's alma mater Metropolis Vocational High School (CVS), agape and unveiled the renaming care CVS Auditorium to the "Bernie Mac Auditorium".^[19]

On February 14, 2017, Rolling Stone named Bernie Mac #41 of the 50 Unexcelled Stand-Up Comics of All Time.^[20]

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

External links