
Philip Bosco
Known for Acting · 95 credits
- Born
- 1930-09-26
- Died
- 2018-12-03
- Place of birth
- Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
- 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.
Known For

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Davis Langley / Joseph P. Terhune

Law & Order
1990
as Defense Attorney Gordon Schell / Dobbs / Lee Jerrold

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Franklin Winthrop

Damages
2007
as Hollis Nye

American Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)

Great Performances
1971
as Father Coyne
TV Shows (28)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Davis Langley / Joseph P. Terhune

Law & Order
1990
as Defense Attorney Gordon Schell / Dobbs / Lee Jerrold

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Franklin Winthrop

Damages
2007
as Hollis Nye

American Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)

Great Performances
1971
as Father Coyne

American Playhouse
1982
as Gaetano Altobelli

Spin City
1996
as Randall Winston, Sr. (archive footage)

The Equalizer
1985
as Brian / Oscar

Early Edition
1996
as Mike Killabrew

Reading Rainbow
1983
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Cyberchase
2002
as Zeus (voice)

Ed
2000
as Alan Stevens

NET Playhouse
1966
as Peter Stockmann

The Civil War
1990
as Horace Greeley (voice)

You Are There
1953

Remember WENN
1996
as Palermo Racine

Baseball
1994
as (voice)

Nurse
1981
as Dr. Harry Wallenberg

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Dominic DeAngelo

Prohibition
2011
as Reader (voice)

Liberty!
1997
as Benjamin Franklin

Leg Work
1987
as Dawson

The National Parks: America's Best Idea
2009

Echoes in the Darkness
1987
as Judge Garb
TriBeCa
1993
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
1986
as Thomas Colfax

Mark Twain
2002
as Other Voices (voice)
Movies (67)

Trading Places
1983
as Doctor

The First Wives Club
1996
as Uncle Carmine Morelli

Hitch
2005
as Mr. O'Brian

Deconstructing Harry
1997
as Professor Clark

My Best Friend's Wedding
1997
as Walter Wallace

Shaft
2000
as Walter Wade Senior

It Takes Two
1995
as Vincenzo

Working Girl
1988
as Oren Trask

Nobody's Fool
1994
as Judge Flatt

The Money Pit
1986
as Curly

3 Men and a Baby
1987
as Det. Sgt. Melkowitz

Kate & Leopold
2001
as Otis

Children of a Lesser God
1986
as Dr. Curtis Franklin

Blue Steel
1990
as Frank Turner

Milk Money
1994
as Jerry the Pope

Quick Change
1990
as Bus Driver

Freedomland
2006
as Priest

The Dream Team
1989
as O'Malley

Shadows and Fog
1991
as Mr. Paulsen

Wonder Boys
2000
as Emily's Father

Critical Care
1997
as Dr. Hofstader

Suspect
1987
as Paul Gray

Coney Island
1991
as Narrator (voice)

The Savages
2007
as Lenny Savage

F/X2
1991
as Lt. Ray Silak, NYPD

Carriers
1998
as Colonel John O. Bailey

Heaven Help Us
1985
as Brother Paul

Angie
1994
as Frank Scacciapensieri

Another Woman
1988
as Sam

Straight Talk
1992
as Gene Perlman

The Pope of Greenwich Village
1984
as Paulie's Father

Bonanno: A Godfather's Story
1999
as Steve Maggadino Sr.

No Ordinary Baby
2001
as Dr. Ed Walden

Internal Affairs
1988
as John Wycoff

Echoes in the Darkness
1987
as Judge Garb

Against the Wall
1994
as Oswald

Abandon
2002
as Professor Jergensen

Mark Twain
2002
as (voice)

A Lovely Way to Die
1968
as Fuller

Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann
1992
as Narrator

Twelfth Night
1998
as Malvolio

True Colors
1991
as Sen. Frank Steubens
Lincoln
1992
as Frederick Seward (voice)

Murder in Black and White
1990
as Wycoff

Cupid & Cate
2000
as Dominic DeAngelo

An Enemy of the People
1966

The Forget-Me-Not Murders
1994
as Chief

Safe Passage
1994
as Mort

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
2003
as Other Voices (voice)

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)
Read Between The Lines
1987
as Grandfather

Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
1986
as Thomas Colfax

The Return of Eliot Ness
1991
as Art Malto

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
as Saunders (segment "Lend Me a Tenor")

Young at Heart
1995
as Patsy

Liberty
1986
as Boss William Tweed
Janek: The Silent Betrayal
1994
as Chief Wycoff

Flanagan
1985
as James Flanagan

Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World
2010
as (voice)

Moon Over Broadway
1997
as Self
When the Evening Comes
2009
as Martin Corrado

Diego Rivera: I Paint What I See
1992
as Bertram Wolfe

Borough of Kings
2000
as Uncle Chicky

Hogan's Goat
1971
as Father Coyne

The Crash of 1929
1990
as Narrator

The Wilderness Idea: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the First Great Battle for Wilderness
1989
as Gifford Pinchot (Voice)

The Luckiest Man in the World
1989
as Sam Posner
About Philip Bosco
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. With 95 credits spanning from 1951 to 2011, Philip Bosco has appeared in 67 films and 28 TV shows.
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Most Popular Philip Bosco Movies
- Trading Places (1983) — as Doctor
- The First Wives Club (1996) — as Uncle Carmine Morelli
- Hitch (2005) — as Mr. O'Brian
- Deconstructing Harry (1997) — as Professor Clark
- My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) — as Walter Wallace
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