Will Ferrell continuing ability of Saturday Night Live to churn out film stars is nothing short of a marvel. Throughout its 30 year history they have come in seemingly endless waves. First came Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd. Next would be Eddie Murphy and Jim Belushi, then Mike Myers, Chris Rock and Adam Sandler. And then . . . nothing. Almost a decade of nothing. Until it scored another breakthrough when a 7-year SNL veteran, one the show's most popular performers and certainly the highest-paid in its history, suddenly made his mark in Hollywood, first as a pathetic perennial teenager, then as an over-sized elf. This was Will Ferrell who quickly, incredibly quickly, went on to become one of Tinseltown's most prolific and best-known stars.
Will Ferrell was born John William Ferrell on the 16th of July, 1967, in Irvine, California, just inland from Newport Beach and a few miles south of Los Angeles. Will Ferrell father, Lee, was a musician who joined The Righteous Brothers' band that same year, playing keyboards and saxophone. But, though the group were still riding high on such hits as You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' and Unchained Melody, Lee would soon quit to help raise young Will and his brother Patrick, born in 1970 (once the kids were grown, he'd actually rejoin The Righteous Brothers, playing and touring with them right up to the death of singer Bobby Hatfield in 2003).
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