Biography for
Irwin Keyes More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

16 March 1952, New York City, New York, USA

Height

6' 1" (1.85 m)

Mini Biography

Large (6'1"), affable, and commanding character actor Irwin Keyes was born on March 16, 1952 in New York City. Keyes grew up in Amityville, New York and graduated from Amityville Memorial High School in 1970. He acted in his first play "The Lower Depths" by Maxim Grody while attending college. Frequently cast as likable lugs, brutish goons, and imposing authority figures, Irwin has acted in a diverse array of movies in such genres as horror ("Friday the 13th," "Guilty as Charged," "House of 1000 Corpses"), comedy ("The Private Eyes," "Zapped!;" hilarious as Wheezy Joe in "Intolerable Cruelty"), thriller ("Dream Lover"), science fiction (both "Oblivion" pictures), and action ("The Warriors," "The Exterminator" and its sequel). Keyes achieved his greatest enduring popularity with his recurring role as endearingly oafish bodyguard Hugo Majelewski on the hit sitcom "The Jeffersons." Among the TV shows Irwin has made guest appearances on are "Laverne & Shirley," "Police Squad!," "Moonlighting," "Married with Children," "thirtysomething," "Growing Pains," "Tales from the Crypt," and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation." Moreover, Keyes has not only acted in TV commercials and music videos (he's very touching as a struggling down on his luck actor in the music video for "Good Enough" by Prozak), but also has done voice overs for video games. Irwin lives in Los Angeles, California and continues to act with pleasing regularity.

IMDb Mini Biography By: woodyanders

Spouse

Tracy Fontaine	(29 November 2008 - present)
Victoria Rosenthal	(13 April 1996 - ?) (divorced)

Trivia

His recurring line "Hi! Remember Me?" from the TV series "The Jeffersons" (1975) briefly became a catchphrase in the late 1970s and there was even a poster with his picture as the character Hugo Mojelewski.

Was considered for the role of Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).