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Meat Loaf
Age: 62
Height: 5' 10 1/2"
Birth Place: Dallas, Texas, USA
Born: Sep. 27th, 1947
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Meat Loaf's Main TV Roles
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at
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BIOGRAPHY: Meat Loaf was born in Texas, and moved to Los Angeles in 1967 to play in local bands and appear in musicals such as "Hair" and "As You Like It". He made his film debut with a memorable role in cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). In 1977, he and lyricist Jim Steinman released an operatic rock album called "Bat Out Of Hell", the record was huge and has sold 35,000,000 copies worldwide. However, the tour promoting the album took a toll on Meat's voice and left him unable to sing on the follow-up record "Bad For Good". Meat Loaf stayed in the dark through the eighties doing 4 records which never got any airplay or chart position in the US. Meat Loaf appeared in films Out of Bounds (1986) as a Pilot, and The Squeeze (1987) with Michael Keaton. But after getting back together with Steinman, they delivered a powerful sequel "Bat Out Of Hell II" which went to #1 in the US and UK. Bat II has now sold an excess of 20,000,000 copies. His TV credits include the Soldier being held prisoner in Vietnam in "Lightning Force" (1991), a mad Doctor who invents a serum to keep zombies from deteriorating in "Monsters" (1988) and a slick Landlord of a restaurant who ends up on the menu in HBO series "Tales from the Crypt" (1989). Meat Loaf has also appeared in Crazy in Alabama (1999) and Fight Club (1999).
TRIVIA:
- Despite his famous moniker, Marvin doesn't like to eat meatloaf.
- Has told numerous contradictory "official" stories of how he got his stage name.
- When he first started rehearsals for the stage version of The Rocky Horror Show neither he nor the rest of the cast were aware of the sexual content of the play. It was only relatively late into the rehearsal stage that they found out, when 'Tim Curry (I)' (qv) (whom they had never met, he had been brought over from the London production) turned up on stage in full Frank-N-Furter costume and make-up singing "Sweet Transvestite." It was then that they realized what the show was really about. Meat Loaf walked out of the rehearsals and refused to do the show, but was talked into doing one performance to see how it went. When he saw how much the audience loved the show he agreed to stay on for the entire run.
- Despite being known as a singer, Meat Loaf has only sung in two films - Rocky Horror Picture Show and Tenacious D: The Pick Of Destiny. The reason for this is because he wanted to be taken seriously as an actor and not get typecast into singing roles.
- Made a very special appearance in 'Ann Magnuson' (qv)'s Cinemax comedy movie special _Vandemonium Plus (1987) (TV)_ (qv) - he played Steve The Piglet.
- Won a Grammy for the song "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)"
- Played 300 soldout concerts between 1987-91.
- Along with Derek St. Holmes, Meat Loaf handled lead vocals on 'Ted Nugent (I)' (qv)'s 1976 'Free For All' record.
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