Joseph Bova

Joseph Bova

Born: May 25, 1924
Died: March 12, 2006
in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Joseph Bova (May 25, 1924 – March 12, 2006) was an American actor. He worked in early television, having a children's show on WABC-TV in New York, and played Prince Dauntless in the Broadway musical Once Upon a Mattress, starring Carol Burnett.

Movies for Joseph Bova...

Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Title: Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Character: The King of France
Released: October 21, 1990
Type: Movie
This is yet another telling of the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as the two try to clear their friend Jim of murder charges.
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Morgan Stewart's Coming Home
Title: Morgan Stewart's Coming Home
Character: Emily's Father
Released: February 20, 1987
Type: Movie
Eccentric 17-year-old Morgan Stewart (Cryer) can't seem to get his conservative parents to notice him - even though Morgan's been thrown out of 10 prep schools in 7 years! But when a sleazy campaign manager threatens Morgan's father's senatorial bid, Morgan comes home to clean up the mess... and creates hilarious havoc! by the time Morgan is finished, Washington politics will never be the same.
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42nd Street
Title: 42nd Street
Character: Bert Barry
Released: August 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Original Broadway production filmed for Japanese television. Based on the novel by Bradford Ropes and the subsequent 1933 Hollywood film adaptation, the show focuses on the efforts of famed dictatorial Great White Way director Julian Marsh to mount a successful stage production of a musical extravaganza at the height of the Great Depression.
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Title: Tales from the Darkside
Character: Lew Feldman
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist. The series' episodes spanned the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and some episodes featured elements of black comedy or more lighthearted themes.
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Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye
Title: Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye
Character: Father Robinson
Released: January 27, 1977
Type: Movie
Based on the best-selling book, this movie focuses on John F. Kennedy's first run for a congressional seat in 1946.
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Title: Starsky & Hutch
Released: September 10, 1975
Type: TV
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.
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Title: Barney Miller
Character: Michael D. Crowley
Released: January 23, 1975
Type: TV
Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed the majority of the episodes.
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Who?
Title: Who?
Character: Dr. Lucas Martino
Released: April 18, 1974
Type: Movie
After an American scientist is severely injured and scarred in a car crash along the border with East Germany, he is captured by East German military. The scientists use metal implants to save him. Once he's back in the States, no one can tell if it's really him, so an intelligence specialist must determine who is under the "mask".
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Title: Happy Days
Released: January 15, 1974
Type: TV
In 1950s Milwaukee the Cunningham family must contend with Fonzie, a motorcycle riding Casanova.
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Serpico
Title: Serpico
Character: Potts
Released: December 18, 1973
Type: Movie
Frank Serpico is an idealistic New York City cop who refuses to take bribes, unlike the rest of the force. His actions get Frank shunned by the other officers, and often placed in dangerous situations by his partners. When his superiors ignore Frank's accusations of corruption, he decides to go public with the allegations. Although this causes the Knapp Commission to investigate his claims, Frank has also placed a target on himself.
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Title: Kojak
Character: Morrie Rogaz
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: TV
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
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Up the Sandbox
Title: Up the Sandbox
Character: John
Released: December 21, 1972
Type: Movie
Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.
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Pretty Poison
Title: Pretty Poison
Character: Pete
Released: July 18, 1968
Type: Movie
A young man gets in over his head when he convinces a small-town girl he's a secret agent.
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Once Upon a Mattress
Title: Once Upon a Mattress
Character: Prince Dauntless
Released: June 3, 1964
Type: Movie
Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer, and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer. The musical story of THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA, this television adaption of the 1959 Broadway hit was videotaped in black and white in front of a live audience and featured Burnett, Bova, Gilford, and White from the original Broadway cast, as well as new principals Bill Hayes as the Minstrel, Shani Wallis as Lady Larken and Elliott Gould (in his first appearance on any screen) as the Jester. Due to the reduced running time of 90 minutes, several songs and scenes were either cut or shortened. The conflict concerning Sir Harry and Lady Larkin was downplayed so that they were married in secret.
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The Young Doctors
Title: The Young Doctors
Character: Dr. Shawcross
Released: August 23, 1961
Type: Movie
An aging doctor's resentment of his young assistant could lead to tragedy.