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Philip Bosco

Acting

Born September 26, 1930 · Jersey City, New Jersey, USA

Died December 3, 2018

Also known as فیلیپ باسکو

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.

Awards & recognition

  • Tony AwardBest Actor in a Play · 1989
  • Daytime Emmy Award
  • Tony AwardBest Actor in a Play · 2005 · nominated
  • Tony AwardBest Actor in a Play · 1996 · nominated
  • Tony AwardBest Actor in a Play · 1987 · nominated
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  • Tony AwardBest Featured Actor in a Play · 1984 · nominated
  • Tony AwardBest Featured Actor in a Play · 1961 · nominated

Filmography50+ titles

Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World

2010as (voice)

Reading Rainbow

1983as Self - Narrator (voice)

Coney Island

1991as Narrator (voice)

The Return of Eliot Ness

1991as Art Malto

Prohibition

2011as Reader (voice)

The National Parks: America's Best Idea

2009

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999as Joseph P. Terhune

The Civil War

1990as Horace Greeley (voice)

Remember WENN

1996as Palermo Racine

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

2003as Other Voices (voice)

Cyberchase

2002as Zeus (voice)

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

2001as Franklin Winthrop

Damages

2007as Hollis Nye

Baseball

1994as (voice)

Deconstructing Harry

1997as Professor Clark

Law & Order

1990as Defense Attorney Gordon Schell

Trading Places

1983as Doctor

The Savages

2007as Lenny Savage

Nobody's Fool

1994as Judge Flatt

Children of a Lesser God

1986as Dr. Curtis Franklin

Wonder Boys

2000as Emily's Father

Another Woman

1988as Sam

The First Wives Club

1996as Uncle Carmine Morelli

Shadows and Fog

1991as Mr. Paulsen

Quick Change

1990as Bus Driver

Hitch

2005as Mr. O'Brian

My Best Friend's Wedding

1997as Walter Wallace

American Experience

1988as Narrator (voice)

Working Girl

1988as Oren Trask

Suspect

1987as Paul Gray

It Takes Two

1995as Vincenzo

The Money Pit

1986as Curly

Milk Money

1994as Jerry the Pope

Heaven Help Us

1985as Brother Paul

Kate & Leopold

2001as Otis

Critical Care

1997as Dr. Hofstader

F/X2

1991as Lt. Ray Silak, NYPD

The Pope of Greenwich Village

1984as Paulie's Father

True Colors

1991as Sen. Frank Steubens

Three Men and a Baby

1987as Det. Sgt. Melkowitz

Against the Wall

1994as Oswald

The Dream Team

1989as O'Malley

Great Performances

1971as Father Coyne

Cupid & Cate

2000as Dominic DeAngelo

Shaft

2000as Walter Wade Senior

Straight Talk

1992as Gene Perlman

Angie

1994as Frank Scacciapensieri

Blue Steel

1990as Frank Turner

No Ordinary Baby

2001as Dr. Ed Walden

Freedomland

2006as Priest