Joseph Campanella
Acting
Born 1924-11-21
Died 2018-05-16
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
166 credits
Awards
Nominated for 1 Daytime Emmy Award
Daytime Emmy Awards 1 nominated
- 1989 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Nominated Days of Our Lives
Tony Awards 1 nominated
- 1962 Best Featured Actor in a Play Nominated
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Actor Joseph Campanella's father, a Sicilian immigrant, was an early member of the American Federation of Musicians; perhaps as a result, the younger Campanella remained active in liberal "underdog" political causes all his life. At eighteen, Campanella became one of the youngest-ever skippers in the wartime navy. He went on to attend Columbia University, then began his acting career on the New York stage and in TV soap operas. Over the next three decades he would portray Joe Turino on The Guiding Light, Alec Fielding on The Doctors, Dr. Ted Steffen on the nighttime TV serial The Doctors and the Nurses and Senator Harper Devereaux on Days of Our Lives. Additional TV assignments for Campanella included the role of Mike Connors' boss on the first season (1967-68) of Mannix; attorney Brian Darrell on four seasons (1969-73) of The Bold Ones; and Hutch Corrigan on the 1985-86 season of The Colbys. He also narrated several National Geographic Specials, and was host of the syndicated 1983 revival of This is Your Life. A steadfast film supporting player, Campanella was finally awarded a lead in 1972's "rampaging rat" thriller Ben, only to find that his was the second name above the title: "Leave it to me," Campanella remarked with his usual self-deprecation, "to get second billing to a rat in my first big starring movie." Recent credits include a "guest voice" role as Dr. Thorne on the Fox Network's Batman: The Animated Series. Joseph Campanella is the brother of Frank Campanella, a character actor usually cast as uniformed big-city cops.
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Filmography
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Acting
50 credits
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
NOVA
Star Trek: Voyager
Dallas
Murder, She Wrote
Cold Case
The Fugitive
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Batman: The Animated Series
Ironside
Mission: Impossible
The Practice
Spider-Man
Mannix
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Knots Landing
The Division
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
21 Jump Street
The Golden Girls
The Virginian
The Rockford Files
Quincy, M.E.
Robert Montgomery Presents
Touched by an Angel
Airwolf
The Guardian
One Day at a Time
The Untouchables
The Big Valley
Early Edition
Walker, Texas Ranger
Naked City
Combat!
The F.B.I.
Medical Center
Route 66
Night Gallery
Gunsmoke
Pacific Blue
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Run for Your Life
The Invaders
The Name of the Game
McCloud
Matt Houston
Mama's Family
12 O'Clock High
Crazy like a Fox
Petrocelli
Other credits
10 credits
Melrose Place
Hotel
Police Woman
The Rookies
Trapper John, M.D.
Vega$
Omnibus
Alias Smith and Jones
Kraft Television Theatre
Police Story
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