Peter Crombie, Actor Who Played ‘Crazy’ Joe Davola on ‘Seinfeld,’ Dead at 71
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Peter Crombie, the actor who played “Crazy” Joe Davola on Seinfeld, has died at the age of 71.
TMZ first reported and The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Crombie died January 10 following a brief illness, his ex-wife Nadine Kijner wrote on social media.
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“It is with shock and extreme sadness that I share my Ex-husband died this morning,” Kijner wrote on Instagram. “Thank you for so many wonderful memories and being such a good man. Fly free into the Un-boundless source of light, Peter. May you be greeted with love by your parents, and Oliver . So so many people loved you because you were a kind, giving, caring and creative Soul.”
Crombie was best known for his five-episode run on the fourth season of Seinfeld portraying “Crazy” Joe Davola, a mentally unstable sitcom writer with a grudge against Jerry Seinfeld. Over the course of his arc, Davola also briefly dated and stalked Julia Louis Dreyfus’ Elaine Benes, dressed up like the clown from the opera Pagliacci, and assaulted Kramer before his character disappeared following the Season 4 finale.
“Crazy” Joe Davola landed at Number 50 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Best Seinfeld Characters. “He leaves his apartment door open in order to encourage intruders. He cries while lifting weights. And he has no problem roundhouse kicking Kramer in the head,” Rolling Stone wrote.
“But more than anything, ‘Crazy’ Joe Davola (Peter Crombie) lives up to his nickname with his various attempted attacks on Jerry Seinfeld, whom he blames for rejecting a TV script he wrote, making him one of Seinfeld‘s most nuanced and most psychopathic characters. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. After all, to quote Davola, ‘Fear is our most primal emotion.’”
In addition to his memorable run on Seinfeld, Crombie also appeared in Natural Born Killers, NYPD Blue, The Doors, Se7en, and the miniseries House of Frankenstein.
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