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    • Paul Reubens was an American actor and comedian, widely known for creating and portraying the character Pee-wee Herman. Reubens joined the Los Angeles troupe the Groundlings in the 1970s and started his career as an improvisational comedian and stage actor. Reubens developed his Pee-wee character at the Groundlings. After a failed auditi… See more

    BornPaul Rubenfeld · August 27, 1952 · Peekskill, New York, U.S.
    DiedJuly 30, 2023 (aged 70) · Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    EducationBoston University · California Institute of the Arts (BFA)
    RelativesAbby Rubenfeld (sister)
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    Early life and education

    Reubens was born Paul Rubenfeld in Peekskill, New York, on August 27, 1952, and grew up in a Jewish family in Sarasota, Florida, where his parents, Judy (née Rosen) and Milton Rubenfeld, owned a lamp store… See more

    Career

    In the 1970s, Reubens began performing at local comedy clubs and, starting in 1977, made 14 guest appearances on The Gong Show, four of which as part of a boy–girl act he had developed with Charlotte McGinnis, … See more

    Undeveloped scripts

    When Reubens started giving interviews again after his 2002 arrest, he talked about the two scripts he had written for future Pee-wee Herman films.
    Reubens once called his first script The Pee-wee H… See more

    Legal issues

    In July 1991, Reubens was arrested in Sarasota, Florida, for indecent exposure while watching a film at a porno theater. During an unexpected police inspection, a detective detained Reubens, along with three other… See more

    Reception and legacy

    Reubens had not always thought of his character as one for children prior to the mid-1980s, when he became more selective of what should and should not be associated with Pee-wee. He was a heavy smoker an… See more

    Death

    Reubens died on July 30, 2023, at the age of 70, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The immediate cause of his death was acute hypoxic respiratory failure. At the time of his death he was diagnosed with both … See more

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