History Creator / TonyDanza

Antonio Salvatore Iadanza (born April 21, 1951), better known as Tony Danza, is an actor and former boxer, who has starred in a lot of television shows. Three of which [[TitleCharacter were named after him]] (1997's, and 2004's, ''The Tony Danza Show'', and ''Teach: Tony Danza''). He's an Italian guy from New York who became a boxer in his first career. It was when he was boxing that a TV producer spotted him, and [[CastTheExpert asked him to play a boxer]] in ''Series/{{Taxi}}''. This boxer/taxi driver was named Tony Banta, becoming one of countless examples of [[TheDanza premiere roles being named after their actor]]. On this wiki, that phenomenon is [[TropeNamer something else named after Mr. Danza]]: we call it TheDanza.

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Antonio Salvatore Iadanza (born April 21, 1951), better known as Tony Danza, is an actor and former boxer, who has starred in a lot of television shows. Three of which [[TitleCharacter were named after him]] (1997's, and 2004's, ''The Tony Danza Show'', and ''Teach: Tony Danza''). He's an Italian guy from New York who became a boxer in his first career, and then proceeded to not start acting as Robert de Niro. It is when he was boxing that a TV producer spotted him, and [[CastTheExpert asked him to play a boxer]] in ''Series/{{Taxi}}''. This boxer-taxi driver was named Tony Banta, becoming one of countless examples of [[TheDanza premiere roles being named after their actor]]. On this wiki, that phenomenon is [[TropeNamer something else named after Mr. Danza]]: we call it TheDanza.

* ''Film/TheGarbagePickingFieldGoalKickingPhiladelphiaPhenomenon'' (1998)

* ''Film/TwelveAngryMen'' (1997)

Antonio Salvatore Iadanza, better known as Tony Danza (born April 21, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York) is an actor and former boxer, who has starred in a lot of television shows. Three of which [[TitleCharacter were named after him]] (1997's, and 2004's, ''The Tony Danza Show'', and ''Teach: Tony Danza''). He's an Italian guy from New York who became a boxer in his first career, and then proceeded to not start acting as Robert de Niro. It is when he was boxing that a TV producer spotted him, and [[CastTheExpert asked him to play a boxer]] in ''Series/{{Taxi}}''. This boxer-taxi driver was named Tony Banta, becoming one of countless examples of [[TheDanza premiere roles being named after their actor]]. On this wiki, that phenomenon is [[TropeNamer something else named after Mr. Danza]]: we call it TheDanza.

Antonio Salvatore Iadanza, better known as Tony Danza (born April 21, 1951) is an actor and former boxer, who has starred in a lot of television shows. Three of which [[TitleCharacter were named after him]] (1997's, and 2004's, ''The Tony Danza Show'', and ''Teach: Tony Danza''). He's an Italian guy from New York who became a boxer in his first career, and then proceeded to not start acting as Robert de Niro. It is when he was boxing that a TV producer spotted him, and [[CastTheExpert asked him to play a boxer]] in ''Series/{{Taxi}}''. This boxer-taxi driver was named Tony Banta, becoming one of countless examples of [[TheDanza premiere roles being named after their actor]]. On this wiki, that phenomenon is [[TropeNamer something else named after Mr. Danza]]: we call it TheDanza.

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Tony Danza (April 21, 1951-), a former boxer, has starred in a lot of television shows. Three of which [[TitleCharacter were named after him]] (1997's, and 2004's, ''The Tony Danza Show'', and ''Teach: Tony Danza''). He's an Italian guy from New York who became a boxer in his first career, and then proceeded to not start acting as Robert de Niro. It is when he was boxing that a TV producer spotted him, and [[CastTheExpert asked him to play a boxer]] in ''Series/{{Taxi}}''. This boxer-taxi driver was named Tony Banta, becoming one of countless examples of [[TheDanza premiere roles being named after their actor]]. On this wiki, that phenomenon is [[TropeNamer something else named after Mr. Danza]]: we call it TheDanza.

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Tony Danza, a former boxer, has starred in a lot of television shows. Three of which [[TitleCharacter were named after him]] (1997's, and 2004's, ''The Tony Danza Show'', and ''Teach: Tony Danza''). He's an Italian guy from New York who became a boxer in his first career, and then proceeded to not start acting as Robert de Niro. It is when he was boxing that a TV producer spotted him, and [[CastTheExpert asked him to play a boxer]] in ''Series/{{Taxi}}''. This boxer-taxi driver was named Tony Banta, becoming one of countless examples of [[TheDanza premiere roles being named after their actor]]. On this wiki, that phenomenon is [[TropeNamer something else named after Mr. Danza]]: we call it TheDanza.

* ''Film/TheCannonballRunII'' (1984)

* ''Film/TheCannonballRuII'' (1984)

* ''[[Film/TheCannonballRun Cannonball Run II]]'' (1984)

* ''Series/BabyTalk'' (1991-92)