Bobby Farrelly Biography (1958?-)

Full name Robert Leo Farrelly, Jr.; born c. 1958, in Cumberland, RI; son of Robert Leo (a doctor) and Mariann (a nurse practitioner; maiden name, Neary) Farrelly; brother of and collaborator with Peter Farrelly (a director and screenwriter); married; wife's name, Nancy; children: Jesse, Anna. Addresses: Agent: Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Director, producer, writer
Birth Details: 1958?; Cumberland, Rhode Island, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Work
with Peter Farrelly
Producer and (uncredited) director, Dumb and Dumber (also known asDumb Happens), New Line Cinema, 1994
Director, Kingpin, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1996
Director and executive producer, There's Something about Mary, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1998
Producer, Outside Providence, Miramax, 1999
Director and producer, Me, Myself & Irene, 2000
Director and producer, Osmosis Jones, Warner Bros., 2001
Director and producer, Shallow Hal, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2001
Executive producer, The Ringer, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2001
Producer, Say It Isn't So, 2001
Television Appearances

Specials
AFI's 100 Years, 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies, CBS, 2000
Television Work
Series
Creator of characters, Dumb and Dumber, 1995
WRITINGS
Screenplays
with Peter Farrelly
(And with Bennett Yellin) Dumb and Dumber (also known as Dumb Happens), New Line Cinema, 1994
(Uncredited; with others) Bushwacked (also known as The Tenderfoot), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1995
(And with Ed Decter and John J. Strauss) There's Something about Mary, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1998
Outside Providence, Miramax, 1999
Stuck on You, 1999
Me, Myself & Irene, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2000
Shallow Hal, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2001
Television Episodes
with Peter Farrelly
"The Virgin," Seinfeld, NBC, 1990
Also wrote another episode of Seinfeld, NBC.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2002

Periodicals

Entertainment Weekly, August 2, 1996, p. 14
Newsweek, July 20, 1998, p. 64

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