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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1930-09-26 (94 years old)

Place of Birth

Jersey City, New Jersey, USA

Philip Bosco

Biography:

Philip Michael Bosco (September 26, 1930 – December 3, 2018) was an American actor. He was known for his Tony Award-winning performance as Saunders in the 1989 Broadway production of Lend Me a Tenor, and for his starring roles in many movies like My Best Friend's Wedding, The Savages and The First Wives Club.

Known For

Acting

2011

Prohibition as Reader (voice)

2010

2009

When the Evening Comes as Martin Corrado

2007

The Savages as Lenny Savage
Damages as Hollis Nye

2006

Freedomland as Priest
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as Saunders (segment "Lend Me a Tenor")

2005

Hitch as Mr. O'Brian

2004

2003

2002

Abandon as Professor Jergensen
Mark Twain as (voice)
Mark Twain as Other Voices (voice)
Cyberchase as Zeus (voice)

2001

No Ordinary Baby as Dr. Ed Walden
Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Franklin Winthrop

2000

Shaft as Walter Wade Senior
Wonder Boys as Emily's Father
Borough of Kings as Uncle Chicky
Cupid & Cate as Dominic DeAngelo
Ed as Alan Stevens

1999

Bonanno: A Godfather's Story as Steve Maggadino Sr.

1998

Carriers as Colonel John O. Bailey
Twelfth Night as Malvolio

1997

My Best Friend's Wedding as Walter Wallace
Deconstructing Harry as Professor Clark
Critical Care as Dr. Hofstader
Liberty! as Benjamin Franklin

1996

The First Wives Club as Uncle Carmine Morelli
Spin City as Randall Winston, Sr. (archive footage)
Remember WENN as Palermo Racine

1995

It Takes Two as Vincenzo

1994

Nobody's Fool as Judge Flatt
Safe Passage as Mort
Angie as Frank Scacciapensieri
Milk Money as Jerry the Pope
Baseball as (voice)

1993

1992

Straight Talk as Gene Perlman
Lincoln as Frederick Seward (voice)

1991

F/X2 as Lt. Ray Silak, NYPD
Shadows and Fog as Mr. Paulsen
Coney Island as Narrator (voice)
True Colors as Sen. Frank Steubens

1990

Quick Change as Bus Driver
Blue Steel as Frank Turner
The Crash of 1929 as Narrator
Law & Order as Defense Attorney Gordon Schell
The Civil War as Horace Greeley
Law & Order as Dobbs
Law & Order as Lee Jerrold

1989

The Dream Team as O'Malley

1988

Working Girl as Oren Trask
Internal Affairs as John Wycoff
American Experience as Narrator (voice)

1987

Suspect as Paul Gray
Read Between The Lines as Grandfather
3 Men and a Baby as Det. Sgt. Melkowitz
Leg Work as Dawson

1986

Children of a Lesser God as Dr. Curtis Franklin
The Money Pit as Curly
Liberty as Boss William Tweed

1985

Heaven Help Us as Brother Paul
Flanagan as James Flanagan
The Equalizer as Brian
The Equalizer as Oscar

1984

1983

Trading Places as Doctor
Reading Rainbow as Himself - Narrator (voice)

1981

Nurse as Dr. Harry Wallenberg

1971

Hogan's Goat as Father Coyne
Great Performances as Father Coyne

1968

1966

1953

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Dominic DeAngelo