Bob Saget

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Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Dialogue Writer
Born:
May 17, 1956 in Philadelphia, PA
Biography:Bob Saget offers living proof that it is possible to dramatically (and aggressively) alter one's own show-business image in mid-act. This deceptively clean-cut writer/actor/comedian began his foray into televised entertainment typecast as a "family-oriented" comic actor, and then shocked nearly everyone by emerging as a popular "blue" comedian with raunchy standup gigs, delivered from such venues as Glitter Gulch. Throughout, Saget managed to achieve considerable success in each venue, albeit among radically different demographics.

A graduate of Pennsylvania's Temple University, Saget originally planned to pursue medical studies, but a brush with the performing arts convinced him to head in that direction instead. Following a brief appearance as a doctor in the Richard Pryor-Michael Apted medical farce Critical Condition (1986), Saget achieved broad recognition in 1987 when cast as genial family man... Full Biography

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Bob Saget at the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory premiere in Hollywood on July 10, 2005
Bob Saget at the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory premiere in Hollywood on July 10, 2005
Jodie Sweetin, Mary-Kate Olsen, Dave Coulier, Candace Cameron, Ashley Olsen and Bob Saget at the New...
Jodie Sweetin, Mary-Kate Olsen, Dave Coulier, Candace Cameron, Ashley Olsen and Bob Saget at the New...
Jodie Sweetin, Mary-Kate Olsen, Dave Coulier, Candace Cameron, Ashley Olsen and Bob Saget at the New...
Mary-Kate Olsen, Bob Saget and Ashley Olsen at the New York Minute premiere in Hollywood on May 01,...
Jodie Sweetin, Mary-Kate Olsen, Dave Coulier, Candace Cameron, Ashley Olsen and Bob Saget at the New...
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