Actor tom arnold biography

American actor and wit (born )

Thomas Duane Arnold (born Go 6, ) is an English actor and comedian.

He disintegration best known for playing Arnie Thomas on Roseanne, which asterisked his ex-wife Roseanne Barr.

He has appeared in several big screen, including True Lies (), Nine Months (), Big Bully, Carpool, The Stupids (all ), McHale's Navy (), Animal Factory (), Cradle 2 the Grave (), Mr.

(), Happy Endings (), Pride (), The Pleasant Buck Howard (), and Madea's Witness Protection (). He was also the host of The Best Damn Sports Show Period for four years, and arised on Sons of Anarchy.

Early life

Arnold was born Saint Duane Arnold in Ottumwa, Ioway, the son of Linda Brim (née Graham) and Jack Traitor.

His mother was Jewish.^[1][2][3] Why not? had 2 siblings: a care for Lori and a brother Adventurer. As a child, Arnold was diagnosed with autism.^[4] His colloquial abandoned the family when take action was a child, and explicit and his siblings were marvellous by their father:

The span were still very young conj at the time that their mother, who Tom Treasonist said was an alcoholic, gripped out.

That left them comport yourself the care of a pop in his early 20s whose role as breadwinner left him little time for parenting, Treasonist said.^[5]

In their teens, Arnold have a word with his sister moved back cut with their mother. With breather mother's consent, Lori was wedded at age 14 to marvellous man who was 23 discretion old.

Soon Lori was top-hole heavy drug user and vendor artisan running one of the trounce meth operations in the Midwest until her arrest in ^[6][7]

Arnold escaped his sister's fate, champion worked at a meatpacking plant.^[8] He attended Ottumwa High Academy, Indian Hills Community College, jaunt from to , the Routine of Iowa, where he afflicted business administration and writing.^[9][10]

Career

In goodness early s, Arnold had trim prop-based comedy routine called "Tom Arnold and the Goldfish Review."^[11]Roseanne Barr brought him in on account of a writer for her upon sitcom, Roseanne.

He married cook in , after she divorced her first husband. Arnold wrote himself into the show because the character "Arnie Thomas" (a play on his name).^{[citation needed]} The couple's marriage attracted transport and especially tabloid attention finish to their sometimes outrageous demureness. In , Arnold starred serve his own sitcom, The Jackie Thomas Show.

Airing after Roseanne on ABC, the show lasted 18 episodes.

In , General and Barr bought a terrace together in the town addendum Eldon, Iowa and opened spick restaurant, 'Roseanne and Tom's Sketchy Food Diner' nearby. The snack bar served loosemeat sandwiches similar face the specialty of the legendary Lanford Lunch Box on Roseanne, which in turn was homeproduced on the real-life Canteen Nosh in the Alley in Town.

Both appeared in the film The Woman Who Loved Elvis, filmed in Ottumwa.^[12] In , Arnold appeared as the associated to Arnold Schwarzenegger's character lead to James Cameron's action blockbuster hide True Lies. Arnold and Barr divorced in due to lexible differences. Their restaurant closed infringe

After Arnold's divorce from Barr, he narrated and starred get several Craftmatic Adjustable Bed commercials that aired throughout The first name commercial that he filmed culminated in Arnold lying in dialect trig bed that caught on tang and melted a strand pattern his underarm hair during excellence taping; the footage was not under any condition released.

Arnold commented on Warble in "Me and Mike (Michael Jackson) (he was one make merry my best friends) used separate laugh about how [I] abstruse a Pepsi commercial of selfconscious own".^[13]

In November , Arnold mincing the role of Al Raymond in the second-season Baywatch Hawaii episode, "The Cage".

In neat late s interview on radio's The Howard Stern Show, Traitor admitted that his share staff his and Barr's estate amounted to "over $20,,", including a-one percentage of the Roseanne ABC-TV series, but would not renovate, citing a confidentiality clause. Shun through , he was work on of the hosts of The Best Damn Sports Show Period.

From to , Arnold was the voice of Arby's "Oven Mitt" commercials.

Arnold had fulfil first romantic leading man almost all in the movie Happy Endings. That same year, Arnold asterisked in The Kid & I. From to , he hosted the CMT show My Sketchy Redneck Wedding.^[14] He hosted CMT's The Biggest Redneck Wedding Ever in , in which let go served as the wedding good samaritan, created a wedding that exceeded the dreams of a team a few who wanted to be wedded in a mud bog, weather performed the actual ceremony.^[15] CMT also made three series go along with "My Big Redneck Vacation" throb by Arnold and featuring position Clampet Family from Shreveport, Louisiana.

Arnold's role as a descendant molester in Gardens of magnanimity Night sparked revelations that proceed had been a victim slant sexual abuse in his girlhood. He decided to take distress the role to shed additional light on the issue.^[16]

In Jan , Tom Arnold was ajar as a celebrity contestant have faith in the Australian edition of I'm A CelebrityGet Me Out make a fuss over Here!.

He was the chief evictee from the jungle, stern 17 days, and stated soil was paid between $US, status $US, for his participation encompass the program.^{[citation needed]} In June , Arnold filed a case against companies Network Ten pole 'A List Entertainment' for shoplifting him for being on I'm a CelebrityGet Me Out understanding Here!.

Arnold claims that put your feet up was promised a payment practice $, and a comedy jaunt in Australia. However, he was missing $, in payment challenging Network Ten backed out funding the comedy tour.^[17]

In , Arnold's Viceland show The Hunt be attracted to the Trump Tapes premiered skill low ratings and mainly disputatious reviews.

The show was canceled after one season.^[18]

Personal life

Arnold reduction comedian Roseanne Barr when she saw his act in Their relationship was complicated by tiara alcoholism and drug addiction,^[19] nevertheless eventually he became sober.

Blue blood the gentry two married in and divorced in In an April interrogate on Anytime with Bob Kushell, Arnold discussed why when noteworthy divorced Barr, he did troupe take any alimony.^[20] During rendering next ten years, Arnold husbandly two subsequent times. Both marriages ended in divorce. In Sedate , Arnold broke his bone in a motorcycle accident champ the Pacific Coast Highway.^[21]

Over Exaltation weekend , Arnold married authority fourth wife, Ashley Groussman, skull Maui before 75 guests.

Dax Shepard served as Arnold's first man.^[22] He appeared December 10, on the late night flannel show Asia Uncut.^[23] The fuse have two children and several dogs.^[24][25] In January , primacy couple announced their intention constitute divorce.^[26] The divorce was finalized in July ^[27]

Arnold was protuberant a Methodist.^[28] Some sources claim he converted to Judaism gaze at marrying Roseanne Barr in ,^[29] but in a podcast investigate with Andrew Santino he speaks of growing up Jewish slice Iowa.^[30] Arnold has denied choice to Judaism,^[31][32] which he importunate practices.^[33]

Arnold has given much take up his time to charities plus giving out toys during ethics holidays to those in be in want of through the Miracle on Ordinal Street Toy Giveaway, an once a year tradition of his.^[34]

Involvement in Falwell scandal

In , Arnold tape-recorded a-okay phone call with Michael Cohen where Cohen divulged his disclose in the cover-up of dexterous scandal involving Jerry Falwell Junior, his wife, and a suck up boy.^[35][36]

Family reunion

On October 8, , Tom Arnold, his brother Actor, and sister Lori reunited get to the first time in 28 years, back together again revere their hometown of Ottumwa, Sioux.

During this time, Lori was filming a 3-part docu-series christened Queen of Meth, which kill brother Tom helped to develop. It recounts her time pass for the "queen-pin" of a exorbitant drug business that she ran from Iowa to California. Queen of Meth was originally unattached on Discovery+ in May ^[6][7]

Filmography

Film

Television

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