Adam Richard Sandler is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, musician, and producer, who is best known for his comedic roles in Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, and Mr. Deeds, as well as being the founder of his production company Happy Madison Productions. He is also well-known for voicing Donald the Capuchin Monkey in Zookeeper and Count Dracula in the first three Hotel Transylvania film series.
For Disney, he played Skeeter Bronson in the 2008 fantasy-comedy film, Bedtime Stories, which was also his first appearance in a family-oriented film. He also guest-starred as himself in the Jessie episode "Punch Dumped Love" (the episode's title is a spoof of one of Sandler's own movies, Punch Drunk Love). In addition, he played the titular role of Robert "Bobby" Boucher Jr. in the 1998 Touchstone Pictures sports comedy film, The Waterboy , Mambuza Bongo Guy in The Hot Chick, and Robert Justin in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. He was also mentioned in an episode of Liv and Maddie and the A.N.T. Farm episode "Animal HusbANTry".
He is also the husband of actress Jackie Sandler and the cousin of Ethan Sandler.
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- He was at one point considered to voice Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story, along with several other actors. It was eventually given to Tim Allen.[1]
- He was once considered to voice Rocket Raccoon in Guardians of the Galaxy, along with David Tennant, Sharlto Copley, Jim Carrey, Michael Rooker, and H. Jon Benjamin, but in the end, Bradley Cooper was cast.