1. Joseph Bologna attended St Rose of Lima school and Brown University, where he majored in art history.
12 Facts About Joseph Bologna
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Joseph Bologna was hired to produce and direct Manhattan-based TV commercials.
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Joseph Bologna stayed close with his old-neighborhood aunts and uncles after becoming successful.
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Two of them were slightly famous on their own: His Uncle Pat was Blacky the Bootblack, whom Joseph Bologna Kennedy credited as his main influence when he sold all of his stock holdings in the summer of 1929 ; his aunt Pauline was one of the better-known celebrity chefs, working for Jackie Gleason, Burt Reynolds and others.
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In 1987, Joseph Bologna starred in the TV musical sitcom Rags to Riches as Nick Foley, a millionaire mogul turned adoptive father.
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From 1996 to 1998, Joseph Bologna voiced Inspector Dan Turpin in Superman: The Animated Series.
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Taylor and Joseph Bologna starred together on stage and on television.
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Joseph Bologna played a love interest for his wife in the episode "Maternal Affairs" of the sitcom The Nanny in the sixth and final season, in which Taylor plays Sylvia, the mother of Fran Drescher's character.
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Joseph Bologna appeared in the first-season episode "The Gym Teacher" as a famous actor for whom Maxwell Sheffield once interned.
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From 2012 until before his death in 2017, Joseph Bologna appeared in numerous roles on TV and in motion pictures, including roles on Funny or Die, stage productions, and national commercials.
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In 2017, Joseph Bologna received the Night of 100 Stars Oscar Gala Lifetime Achievement Award from actor comedian Richard Lewis and his peers to celebrate his 60-year career and to recognize his efforts to save the Motion Picture Home and Hospital in 2012.
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Joseph Bologna died on August 13,2017, at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California from pancreatic cancer at age 82.