Julie Bovasso

Julie Bovasso

Born: August 1, 1930
Died: September 14, 1991
in Brooklyn, New York, USA

Movies for Julie Bovasso...

Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
Title: Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
Character: Self (archival footage)
Released: January 31, 2006
Type: Movie
Documentary highlighting the development of the screenplay into a film with the desired cast. It also describes the closeness among Italian families, which comes from the kitchen, and how a real Italian father is the source of believability for the film.
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Article 99
Title: Article 99
Character: Amelia Sturdeyvant
Released: March 13, 1992
Type: Movie
Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliver adequate care to needy veterans in the face of funding cuts and a corrupt administration. To succeed, the staff may have to bend the rules and circumvent the villainous "Article 99," a bureaucratic loophole that prevents veterans from receiving the benefits they deserve.
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Title: The Man in the Family
Released: June 19, 1991
Type: TV
The Man in the Family is an American sitcom television series that aired from June 19 until July 31, 1991.
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My Blue Heaven
Title: My Blue Heaven
Character: Vinnie's Mother
Released: August 17, 1990
Type: Movie
FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith certainly has his hands full keeping Antonelli away from the Mafia hitmen who want to stop him testifying, not to mention the nightclubs...
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Betsy's Wedding
Title: Betsy's Wedding
Character: Grandma
Released: June 22, 1990
Type: Movie
Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece, sending his wife Lola into a financial panic.
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Hot Paint
Title: Hot Paint
Released: March 20, 1988
Type: Movie
Two losers rob a rich guy and discover that, among the loot, they've taken a rare painting worth $2.8 million. John Larroquette plays his usual rude, selfish character-here named Gus - and he suckers Willy (Gregory Harrison) into his scheme to rob the mansion. The two losers have to try to figure out how to sell the valuable but high-profile item without getting busted. They travel the world looking for potential buyers but always end up short. Everyone can see that they are novices in the art world and buffoons in general.
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Moonstruck
Title: Moonstruck
Character: Rita Cappomaggi
Released: December 16, 1987
Type: Movie
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him. When she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, an emotional and passionate man, she finds herself drawn to him. She tries to resist, but Ronny, who blames his brother for the loss of his hand, has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls for Ronny, she learns that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.
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Wise Guys
Title: Wise Guys
Character: Lil Dickstein
Released: April 17, 1986
Type: Movie
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
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Off Beat
Title: Off Beat
Character: Mrs. Wareham
Released: April 10, 1986
Type: Movie
Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in the show by posing as a police officer. He falls for a female officer in the show and gets into various scrapes with fellow cops and also crooks. And he dances.
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A Time to Triumph
Title: A Time to Triumph
Released: January 7, 1986
Type: Movie
Construction worker, Chuck Hassan, has a heart attack and is no longer able to work and support his family. After losing their home and savings, his wife, Concetta, looks for work and decides to join the Army, to take advantage of the security and benefits. She advances quickly and eventually becomes a helicopter pilot.
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Doubletake
Title: Doubletake
Character: Lou DiMona
Released: November 24, 1985
Type: Movie
Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is called on to head the team of detectives investigating. Meanwhile, Janek is trying to find out why an old friend and colleague committed suicide, which eventually leads to a romantic situation with photographer Caroline Wallace and the discovery of some major corruption among his superiors, all of which has little or nothing to do with the murder story.
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Title: Miami Vice
Released: September 16, 1984
Type: TV
The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.
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Daniel
Title: Daniel
Character: Frieda Stein
Released: August 26, 1983
Type: Movie
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his experiences to the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted.
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Staying Alive
Title: Staying Alive
Character: Mrs. Manero
Released: July 11, 1983
Type: Movie
It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
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The Verdict
Title: The Verdict
Character: Maureen Rooney
Released: December 8, 1982
Type: Movie
Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.
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Title: Cagney & Lacey
Released: March 25, 1982
Type: TV
Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of all time.
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The Gentleman Bandit
Title: The Gentleman Bandit
Character: Doris
Released: May 6, 1981
Type: Movie
Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.
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Title: Nurse
Character: Mrs. Mazzelli
Released: April 2, 1981
Type: TV
Nurse is an American medical drama that aired on CBS from April 2, 1981 to May 1982. Series star Michael Learned won an Emmy in 1982 for her role on the show.
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Willie and Phil
Title: Willie and Phil
Character: Mrs. D'Amico
Released: August 15, 1980
Type: Movie
Life imitates art when two Manhattanites — pompous teacher Willie and quiet photographer Phil — become friends after a thought-provoking screening of "Jules et Jim," Truffaut's classic film about a decades-long ménage à trois. Soon, the men meet Jeanette, a sexually liberated southern transplant who promptly falls for both of them. Frustrated passions curdle into jealousy as Jeanette entertains love affairs with each in the ensuing years.
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King Crab
Title: King Crab
Character: Mrs. Campana
Released: June 15, 1980
Type: Movie
Two brothers take over the family seafood business, and battle each other for control of the company - and their father's attention.
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The Last Tenant
Title: The Last Tenant
Character: Marie
Released: June 25, 1978
Type: Movie
Family members face hard decisions about the care of their elderly father who needs constant care and can no longer safely live alone, which particularly affects the eldest son's life, placing his impending marriage in jeopardy.
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Just Me and You
Title: Just Me and You
Character: Waitress
Released: May 22, 1978
Type: Movie
A salesman travels cross country with a quirky New Yorker.
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Saturday Night Fever
Title: Saturday Night Fever
Character: Flo
Released: December 16, 1977
Type: Movie
Tony spends his Saturdays at a disco where his stylish moves raise his popularity among the patrons. But his life outside the disco is not easy and things change when he gets attracted to Stephanie.
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Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
Title: Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
Character: Ramona
Released: May 11, 1970
Type: Movie
Junie Moon is in the hospital after her face has been disfigured by her deranged boyfriend. There she meets two other patients — Arthur, an epileptic, and Warren, who is gay and uses a wheelchair. The unlikely trio of outcasts decides to move in together and manages to enjoy a series of adventures as they endure various forms of prejudice and struggle with their own issues.
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The Sin of Jesus
Title: The Sin of Jesus
Released: December 10, 1961
Type: Movie
An egg-sorting woman shrugs off even the appearance of Christ. From Isaak Babel story.
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The Iceman Cometh
Title: The Iceman Cometh
Character: Pearl
Released: November 14, 1960
Type: Movie
Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes by-yearly visits to Harry Hope's 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical drinking binges. But on this visit he has decided to try to save the bar's patrons from their "lying pipe dreams."
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Title: From These Roots
Character: Rose Corelli Fraser
Released: June 30, 1958
Type: TV
Follow the life of successful writer Elizabeth “Liz” Fraser Allen as she returns to her New England hometown of Strathfield to run her family’s newspaper after her father suffers a heart attack.