Philip Bosco

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Philip Bosco

Philip Michael Bosco (born September 26 1930) is an American

United States

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Tony Award

Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
- and Daytime Emmy award

Daytime Emmy Award

The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York, New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles, California-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in United States daytime television programming....
-winning actor

Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
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o was born in Jersey City, New Jersey

Jersey City, New Jersey

Jersey City is a City in Hudson County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the population of Jersey City was 240,055, making it New Jersey's List of municipalities in New Jersey , behind Newark, New Jersey....
, the son of Margaret Raymond (née

Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
Thek), a policewoman, and Philip Lupo Bosco, a carnival worker. Bosco went to high school at St. Peter's Preparatory School

St. Peter's Preparatory School

Saint Peter's Preparatory School is a private all-male Jesuit University-preparatory school located in Jersey City, New Jersey, New Jersey. Located within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, the Society of Jesus founded the school in 1872 and remains a contributing part of the administration and faculty....
in Jersey City. He attended the Catholic University

Catholic University

Catholic University may mean any university founded and operated by the Catholic Church. By a census of the Roman Curia Congregation for Catholic Education, the total number of catholic universities and university-level institutes around the world is 1,358....
of Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
Bosco married Nancy Ann Dunkle on January 2, 1957. They have seven children, Jenny, Diane, Philip, Chris, John, Lisa, Celia and 15 grandchildren, one of which is named Max, another one is the almighty Frankie.

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Philip Michael Bosco (born September 26 1930) is an American

United States

Tony Award

Daytime Emmy Award

Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
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Biography

Personal life

Bosco was born in Jersey City, New Jersey

Jersey City, New Jersey

Married and maiden names

St. Peter's Preparatory School

Catholic University

Washington, D.C.

Teaneck, New Jersey

Teaneck is a Township in Bergen County, New Jersey, New Jersey, and is a suburb in the New York metropolitan area. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 39,260....
, Bosco now lives in Haworth, New Jersey

Haworth, New Jersey

Haworth is a Borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 3,390....
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Career

Bosco began his career in Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
. He received a Tony Award nomination for his debut in The Rape of the Belt in 1960 and spent the next three decades supporting major stars in classic revivals like Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac (play)

Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand based on the life of the real Cyrano de Bergerac.The entire play is written in verse, in rhyming couplets of 12 syllables per line, very close to the Alexandrine format, but the verses sometimes lack a caesura....
, King Lear
King Lear

King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606, and is considered one of his greatest works....
, and Twelfth Night. His speciality was George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw, was an Irish people playwright.Although Shaw's first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, his talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays....
, winning raves for Broadway revivals of Man and Superman
Man and Superman

Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw was written in 1903 as a four act drama, responding to those who had questioned Shaw as to why he had never written a play based on the Don Juan theme....
, Saint Joan
Saint Joan (play)

Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw, based on the life and trial of Joan of Arc. Published not long after the canonization of Joan of Arc by the Roman Catholic Church, the play dramatises based on what is known of her life and on the substantial records of her trial....
, Mrs. Warren's Profession
Mrs. Warren's Profession

Mrs Warren's Profession is a Play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893. The story centers on the relationship between Mrs Warren, a prostitute, described by Shaw as "on the whole, a genial and fairly presentable old blackguard of a woman," and her "prudish" daughter, Vivie....
, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House
Heartbreak House

Heartbreak House is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1919. According to A. C. Ward, the work argues that "cultured, leisured Europe" was drifting toward destruction, and that "Those in a position to guide Europe to safety failed to learn their proper business of political navigation"....
(opposite Rex Harrison

Rex Harrison

Sir Reginald ?Rex? Carey Harrison was an England actor of theatre and film, who won both an Academy Award and Tony Award....
), and You Never Can Tell, winning Tony nominations for the last three. He also appeared with Shirley Knight

Shirley Knight

Shirley Enola Knight is an award-winning United States theatre, film, and television actress. She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in 1960 for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and in 1962 for Sweet Bird of Youth....
in the Roundabout Theatre Company

Roundabout Theatre Company

The Roundabout Theatre Company is the largest non-profit theatre company based in New York City. The Company owns Studio 54 and the American Airlines Theatre, both Broadway theatre theatres, and the Off-Broadway Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Arts....
revival of Come Back, Little Sheba
Come Back, Little Sheba (play)

Come Back, Little Sheba is a 1950 in literature#New drama play by the American dramatist William Inge. The play was Inge's first, written while he was a teacher at Washington University in St....
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Following his Tony-winning performance in the farce Lend Me a Tenor
Lend Me a Tenor

Lend Me a Tenor is a Tony Award winning play by Ken Ludwig. The play has been translated into sixteen languages and produced in twenty-five countries....
in 1990, Bosco appeared on Broadway in An Inspector Calls
An Inspector Calls

An Inspector Calls is a Play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley premiering in the theatres of Moscow in 1945. Its West End debut was at London's No?l Coward Theatre on 1 October 1946 starring Ralph Richardson as Inspector Goole....
(1994), The Heiress
The Heiress

The Heiress is a 1949 drama film by Ruth Goetz and Augustus Goetz adapted from their 1947 The Heiress that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James....
(1995), Twelfth Night (1998), Copenhagen
Copenhagen (play)

Copenhagen is a play by Michael Frayn, based around an event that occurred in Copenhagen in 1941, a meeting between the physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg....
(2000), and Twelve Angry Men
12 Angry Men (play)

Twelve Angry Men is a play by Reginald Rose adapted from his 1954 teleplay for the CBS Studio One anthology television series. The play's Broadway debut came fifty years later on 28 October 2004 at the Roundabout Theatre, where it ran for 328 performances....
(2004). He played "Grandpa Potts" in the 2005 Broadway production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (musical)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, also known as Chitty the Musical, is a stage musical based on the 1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang produced by Cubby Broccoli....
, and capped his Shawian

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw, was an Irish people playwright.Although Shaw's first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, his talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays....
work as the aged Captain Shotover in a Broadway revival of Heartbreak House in 2006.

Bosco is a familiar face to viewers of the Law & Order
Law & Order

Law & Order is an United States police procedural and legal drama Television program created by Dick Wolf. It has been broadcast on NBC since its debut on September 13, 1990....
franchise of television series, appearing in various roles ranging from judges to lawyers to villains. His film credits include Hogan's Goat
Hogan's Goat

Hogan's Goat is an award-winning 1965 play by William Alfred.The blank-verse drama concerns a mayoral contest between Irish Americans in Brooklyn, New York in 1890....
, Working Girl
Working Girl

Working Girl is a 1988 film written by Kevin Wade and directed by Mike Nichols. It tells the story of a Staten Island-raised secretary, Tess McGill , working in the mergers and acquisitions department of a Wall Street investment bank....
, Children of a Lesser God
Children of a Lesser God

Children of a Lesser God is a 1986 in film film that tells the story of a speech teacher at a school for deaf students who falls in love with a deaf woman who also works there....
, Nobody's Fool
Nobody's Fool

Nobody's Fool is a 1994 in film Comedy-drama based on the 1993 novel of the same name by Richard Russo. It stars Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Dylan Walsh, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Gene Saks, Josef Sommer, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Philip Bosco....
, Wonder Boys
Wonder Boys (film)

Wonder Boys is a 2000 in film feature film based on the 1995 in literature Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon. Directed by Curtis Hanson, it stars Michael Douglas as professor Grady Tripp, a novelist who teaches creative writing at an unnamed Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania university....
, Quick Change
Quick Change

Quick Change is a 1990 comedy film starring Bill Murray, who also co-directed with the film's screenwriter Howard Franklin. Geena Davis, Randy Quaid, and Jason Robards co-star....
, and The Savages, with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney. Bosco also portrayed Walter Wallace, father of the bride-to-be in the 1997 romantic comedy My Best Friend's Wedding
My Best Friend's Wedding

My Best Friend's Wedding is a 1997 in film romantic comedy film from TriStar Pictures, directed by P. J. Hogan.It stars Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz, Dermot Mulroney, Rupert Everett and Rachel Griffiths....
, co-starring Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts

Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress and former fashion model. She became well known during the early 1990s after starring in the romantic comedy Pretty Woman opposite Richard Gere, which grossed $463 million worldwide....
, Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz

Cameron Michelle Diaz is an United States actress. In August 2008, Forbes listed Diaz as the highest paid actress in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California....
and Dermot Mulroney

Dermot Mulroney

Dermot Mulroney is an United States actor....
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In 1988, Bosco won a Daytime Emmy award

Daytime Emmy Award

ABC Weekend Special

The ABC Weekend Special is a weekly 30-minute anthology TV series for children which aired Saturday mornings on American Broadcasting Company from 1977 to 1997....
'Read Between The Lines'. Bosco is a series regular on the FX original series Damages
Damages (TV series)

Damages is an United States television drama series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn Kessler and Todd A....
. He read Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro Cactus by Barbara Bash as its narrator on the PBS
Public Broadcasting Service

The Public Broadcasting Service is an United States non-profit public broadcasting television service with 354 member TV stations in the United States....
series Reading Rainbow
Reading Rainbow

Reading Rainbow was an United States children's television series aired by Public Broadcasting Service from June 6, 1983 until November 10, 2006, that encourages reading among children....
in its sixty-second episode on March 27,1990. It was shot in Arizona

Arizona

The State of Arizona is a U.S. state located in the Southwestern United States of the United States. The capital and largest city is Phoenix, Arizona....
's Sonoran Desert

Sonoran Desert

The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert which straddles part of the United States-Mexico border and covers large parts of the U.S. states of Arizona and California and the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California....
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External links

- - Downstage Center interview at American Theatre Wing.org
  American Theatre Wing
  
  The American Theatre Wing is a New York City-based organization "dedicated to supporting excellence and education in theatre," according to its mission statement....