Rip Taylor

Charles Elmer "Rip" Taylor, Jr. was an American actor, comedian, and singer. He was perhaps best known for voicing Captain Kiddie in and Uncle Fester in the 1992 animated TV series.
For Disney, he voiced Gene the Genie in DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, Wacky Weasel in Bonkers, King in the Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! episode "World of Giants", Leo in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, and the Royal Recordkeeper in The Emperor's New School.
Taylor was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Elizabeth Sue Evans, a waitress and former government clerk, and Charles Elmer Taylor, a musician. His father died when he was two years old. As described in his 2010 one-man show It Ain't All Confetti, Taylor had a tough childhood, which included being molested while in foster care and having to deal with bullies in school. As a teenager, he attended Capitol Page School. Taylor worked as a congressional page before serving in the Korean War, where he was in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Although assigned to the Corps, he was sent to Special Services, the entertainment wing of the military, where he performed for the troops in Tokyo and Korea.
Taylor's career in show business began when he joined the U.S. Army, where he started performing stand-up in clubs and restaurants abroad while also performing for the troops. After his military service and back in the U.S., he focused on a nightclub career. His mainstay material was "pantomiming records"; his favorites were Yiddish folk songs and tunes. He said that ended one day when the record player broke, "I haven't shut up since." In the mid-1950s, he worked the strip clubs all along the Eastern coast of the U.S. Although much of his material included jokes stolen from acts he saw in USO shows, his first signature piece would be to pretend to cry while begging the audience for laughs. He found he could get a bigger response that way. His bookings started to get more upscale and he played all over Miami Beach, Florida, which had become a winter destination for the wealthy. Taylor was also a mainstay in the summer playground of the wealthy in the Catskills Mountains.
==Roles==
Char 30460.jpg|Gene the Genie(DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp)
Wackyweasel.jpg|Wacky Weasel(Bonkers)
Royal Recordkeeper.png|Royal Recordkeeper(The Emperor's New School)
Leo 2.jpg|Leo(The Suite Life of Zack & Cody)
==Gallery==
Rip Taylor & Doris Roberts Nov10.jpg|Rip Taylor with actress Doris Roberts in November 2010.
RipTaylorObit.jpg|Rip Taylor at the premiere of at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in October 2011.
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