John Paragon

ACTOR, WRITER, DIRECTOR

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John Dixon Paragon was born in Alaska, but grew up and attended schools in Fort Collins, Colorado. He got his start in the Los Angeles-based improvisation group The Groundlings alongside Paul Reubens and Phil Hartman. John is best known for his work on children's show Pee-wee's Playhouse where he played Jambi the Genie and voiced Pterri the Pterodactyl. In addition to writing many of the regular season episodes of Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986), John also co-wrote with Paul Reubens the acclaimed "Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special" in 1988, for which they were nominated an Emmy Award for Best Writing in a Children's Special. He has also collaborated with fellow Groundling Cassandra Peterson on numerous projects, including the recurring role of The Breather, an annoying caller, for her first television series Movie Macabre on KHJ-TV-Los Angeles and was co-writer on her 1988 feature film, Elvira Mistress of the Dark. Some of his other memorable roles include Cedric, one half of the homosexual couple Bob and Cedric on the television series Seinfeld; the title character in the children's movie The Frog Prince; the sex shop salesman in the cult favorite Eating Raoul; and the owner of a Strip-o-gram business in the 1986 film Echo Park. In recent years, John has worked with Walt Disney Imagineering on ways to incorporate improvisational performance into attractions at Disney parks. He returned to his performance as Jambi the Genie in the Broadway outing of the new "Pee-wee Herman" stage show that began performances October 26, 2010 at the Stephen Sondheim Theater. - IMDb Mini Biography By: C. Greenia

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of John Paragon’s flixes, followed by Google Play Movies compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

John Paragon on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1981 to 2011. See the full graphs of the number of John Paragon movies released per year from 1983 till 2011.

Top Genres

John Paragon works mostly in Comedy Genre followed by Horror Genre flixes. 50% of John Paragon movies are Comedy Genre movies. See Top Genres that John Paragon worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that John Paragon has worked on is 7.0.

7.0 / 10

John Paragon's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Comedy,Family,Musical
Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986)

Pee-Wee Herman and his friends have wacky, imaginative fun in his unique playhouse.

8.1/1030 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

Amid an avalanche of stars, Pee-wee straps on his ice skates and glides into the holiday season with Christmas cards, carols - and Charo.

7.7/1049 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Subversive humor and childlike wonder based on both Reubens' original stage show, "The Pee-wee Herman Show," and the Emmy-winning Saturday morning TV show, "Pee-wee's Playhouse."

7.5/1089 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Upon arriving in a small town where she has inherited a rundown mansion, a famous horror hostess battles an evil uncle, and townspeople who want her burned at the stake.

6.5/1096 min

Available in 12 platform(s).

Drama,Family,Fantasy
The Frog Prince (1986)

Children's musical based on Grimm's fairy tale of The Frog-King. A young girl learns how to be a good friend and princess with the help of a "tall frog."

6.2/1086 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Spooky high jinks abound when Elvira finds herself spending the night in a mysterious castle en route to 1851 Paris.

5.6/1090 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

In "Cheech and Chong's Get Out Of My Room", the stoners hit the streets of L.A. in a mockumentary about - themselves. Featuring their classic song/video "Born In East L.A.", co-starring Beverly D'Angelo, Jan-Michael Vincent.

4.6/1053 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

Action,Comedy,Crime
Double Trouble (1992)

Muscle-bound twins try to smash a jewel smuggling ring.

3.9/1086 min

Available in 2 platform(s).