Edward Harry Deezen known as Eddie Deezen is an American actor and comedian.
Eddie Deezen is also a very talented voice over artist.
Eddie has played bit parts as nerd characters in 1970s and 1980s films such as Grease, Grease 2, Midnight Madness, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, 1941, and WarGames. He starred in Surf II: The End of the Trilogy, Mob Boss, Beverly Hills Vamp, and Teenage Exorcist.
Eddie landed his first and perhaps best known role in the film Grease, playing nerdy student Eugene Felsnic, a part he won through a standard audition process.During Grease’s post-production period, Eddie won another small role playing a bully in the low-budget independent science fiction movie Laserblast. Despite being his second film, Laserblast marked Eddie’s screen debut when it was released in March 1978, three months before the theatrical release of Grease.
In the independent film, WarGames marked the final mainstream film of Eddie’s live-action acting career as he began working exclusively in independent film for the remainder of the 1980s, starting with his first starring role in the 1984 cult comedy Surf II: The End of the Trilogy, where he played the movie’s antagonist, mad scientist Menlo Schwartzer.
In the mid-1980s, Eddie transitioned into voice acting, a change of pace he favored due to better pay and not needing to memorize dialogue.
Eddie shared about:
- Growing up with Scoliosis and how he overcome with it
- Being bullied and feeling an outcast growing up
- Living his life to the fullest despite of being different and unique