Rodney Allen Rippy

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Rodney Allen Rippy (born July 29, 1968) is an American former child actor.

He appeared in TV commercials for the fast-food chain Jack in the Box in the early 1970s, as well as in numerous roles in television and movies.

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Early career

Rippy was seen trying to wrap his mouth around the super-sized Jumbo Jack hamburger in the Jack in the Box ads.

The tag line "It's too big to eat!"

(pronounced "It's too big-a-eat!")

I'm a hit now. Rippy giggling while singing "Take Life a Little Easier," which was released as a single by Bell Records in the fall of 1973 in the aftermath of the commercial's success.

The single (b/w "World of Love") appeared on the Billboard "Bubbling Under" chart in October 1973, peaking at #112. Rippy was the youngest person to ever appear on any Billboard music chart at the age of five. In 1974, an LP called Take Life a Little Easier (Bell 1311).

Rippy appeared on many popular television shows, including The Six Million Dollar Man, Marcus Welby, M.D., The Police Story, and The Odd Couple (Rodney played himself and was the owner of the building where Oscar and Felix lived). He has appeared on talk shows including The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Dinah Shore's Place with Dinah Shore. Rippy appeared on the CBS Saturday morning children's program The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine.

In the Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles, Rodney made his big screen debut (uncredited, shot before the Jack in the Box spots). After a brutal Sioux country attack, he portrayed a young Sheriff Bart aboard his parents' buckboard wagon. Rippy says "Thank you" as the Sioux chief, as depicted by Brooks, allows the pioneers' passage (for being darker than the Sioux). Snoopy awakenes in a Peanuts newspaper comic strip dated July 3, 1974, in which he "had been invited out to dinner by Rodney Allen Rippy" aspired.

Later career

Rippy graduated from Cerritos College in 1990 and Dominguez Hills, California, where he concentrated in marketing. In 2000, he founded Ripped Marketing Group, which he later named Ripped Marketing Group. Among other areas, he worked on campaigns such as promoting leisure wear and country music. Since his childhood role, he has appeared in a few episodes of Parker Lewis Can't Lose in the early 1990s, Former Child Star and the 2003 David Spade comedy Dickie Roberts has played a few roles.

Rippy is a partner of Bow Tie Productions and a spokesperson for Hurricane Housing Relief. He appeared on KABC-TV in Los Angeles, California. He was a resident of Carson, California, who died of cancer in 1986. He was once a national director of marketing with Metro Networks (Westwood One).

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