Tim Herlihy Biography

Tim Herlihy is an American screen actor, film producer, screenwriter, and Broadway show author. Films written or produced by Herlihy have grossed over $3 billion at the worldwide box office. ^{He frequently collaborates with Adam Sandler, who played a Saturday Night Live character, “The Herlihy Boy”, in honor of Tim Herlihy.}

Tim Herlihy Age

Herlihy was born on  October 9, 1966, Brooklyn, NY, USA. He is 52 years old as of 2018. Herlihy grew up in Brooklyn with his parents where his father worked as a firefighter in the city.

Tim Herlihy Wife

Unlike most of his male counterparts, Tim has kept his silence on who his wife is and there is not much information about her. At this age, Tim Herlihy is happily married but his personal life is completely hidden from the public. He has 4 children with his wife.

Tim Herlihy Net Worth

With his continuous hard work and dedication to his art, Tim has created a prosperous life for him and his family. The estimated amount of his net worth is at $30 million. His frequent collaboration with A-listed actor Adam Sandler has also given him the boost in his career.

Tim is still writing, producing, acting in movies which are going to increase his bank balance in the near future. His total work in Adam Sandler’s films and his sketches has made more than $3 billion in the total. So, from this amount, Tim must’ve have received a million dollars on profit share.

Herlihy earns more than $1 million for his every film as a screenwriter and percentile of the profit on top of that.

Tim Herlihy Education

He graduated from Arlington High School in 1984. While double majoring in accounting and international business at New York University, he roomed with Adam Sandler in the Brittany Hall dormitory. When Sandler began doing stand-up comedy during their sophomore year, Herlihy wrote material for Sandler as a lark.

After graduating in 1988, Herlihy spent a year as an accountant at Ernst & Young in Manhattan before returning to NYU for law school.

While a student there, Herlihy collaborated with Sandler on sketches, including Cajun Man. After law school, Herlihy worked as a securities lawyer at Cahill Gordon & Reindel in lower Manhattan.

Tim Herlihy Career

While working as an attorney, Herlihy continued collaborating with Sandler on SNL sketches, including Canteen Boy. They also began working on a screenplay for Billy Madison, which Herlihy wrote at his law firm late at night.^[5]

Herlihy was hired as a writer at Saturday Night Live in March 1994. He remained at the show after Sandler left in 1995, rising to head writer and eventually producer. He wrote many political sketches leading up to the 1996 Presidential election and co-wrote the 1999 sketch in which Monica Lewinsky appeared. He left the show in 1999 to focus on film work.

He is best known for writing or co-writing the Sandler films Billy Madison (1995), Happy Gilmore (1996), The Wedding Singer (1998), The Waterboy (1998), Big Daddy (1999) and Pixels (2015). Herlihy appeared in the film Big Daddy as the “Singing Kangaroo,” and sang “The Kangaroo Song” on the film’s soundtrack. Herlihy played a bartender in both The Wedding Singer (1998) and The Ridiculous 6 (2015).

In 2006, Herlihy co-wrote the book and two songs for a Broadway musical version of The Wedding Singer. It opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on April 27, 2006, and closed on December 31, 2006, after 284 performances. Herlihy and Chad Beguelin’s book was nominated for the 2006 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, and the show itself was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical. It subsequently has had many international productions.

In 2015, Herlihy co-wrote with Sandler the Western comedy film The Ridiculous 6, distributed by Netflix. Despite being universally panned by critics, on January 6, 2016, it was announced by Netflix that the film had been viewed more times in 30 days than any other movie in Netflix history.

Herlihy returned to Saturday Night Live for one episode in 2015, to work with Tracy Morgan on a recurring sketch they had created in the ’90s, Brian Fellow’s Safari Planet. That episode was nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding writing and won a Writers Guild Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy.

Tim Herlihy Broadway

The Wedding Singer (2006) (writer/producer)

Tim Herlihy As a Writer

Saturday Night Live (1993–2000)Billy Madison (1995)Happy Gilmore (1996)The Wedding Singer (1998)The Waterboy (1998)Big Daddy (1999)Little Nicky (2000)Mr. Deeds (2002)Bedtime Stories (2008)Grown Ups 2 (2013)Pixels (2015)The Ridiculous 6 (2015)

Tim Herlihy As a Producer

Billy Madison (1995) ArchitectThe Wedding Singer (1998) Rudy the BartenderBig Daddy (1999) Singing KangarooMr. Deeds (2002) FiremanClick (2006) DoctorBedtime Stories (2008) Young Barry NottinghamGrown Ups (2010) PastorBlended (2014) Basketball DadPixels (2015) Defense SecretaryThe Ridiculous 6 (2015) Nugget BartenderSandy Wexler (2017) Mr. O’Mally

Tim Herlihy Soundtracking

Billy Madison (1995)The Wedding Singer (1998)Big Daddy (1999) (performer50 First Dates (2004)My Only Ü (2008)Blended (2014)The Ridiculous 6

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