22 Facts About Joseph Campanella

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Joseph Anthony Campanella was an American character actor.

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Joseph Campanella appeared in more than 200 television and film roles from the early 1950s to 2009.

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Joseph Campanella narrated the Discover science series on the Disney Channel from 1992 until 1994.

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Joseph Campanella was nominated for a Daytime and Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award throughout his career.

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Joseph Campanella was born in Manhattan, New York City to Sicilian immigrants Philip and Mary O Joseph Campanella.

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Joseph Campanella's father was a pianist and his mother was a homemaker and dressmaker.

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Joseph Campanella was the younger brother of actor Frank Campanella and had another brother named Philip.

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Joseph Campanella served in the United States Navy during World War II as a landing craft commander.

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Joseph Campanella later graduated from Manhattan College in 1948, and attended Columbia University, where he studied drama.

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Joseph Campanella had a recurring role from 1959 to 1962 as a criminal named Joe Turino on the long-running CBS daytime drama Guiding Light.

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Joseph Campanella had a recurring role as Dr Ted Steffen on the medical drama The Doctors and the Nurses from 1964 to 1965.

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Joseph Campanella was let go from his role after the first season due to a reworking of the program's concept.

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Joseph Campanella appeared as attorney Brian Darrell from 1969 to 1972 in The Bold Ones: The Lawyers.

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Joseph Campanella played Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Captain Monty Ballard in the crime drama TV movie Sky Hei$t in 1975.

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Joseph Campanella played Ann Romano's ex-husband, Ed Cooper, in eight episodes of One Day at a Time and Barbara Stanwyck's love interest in the first season of Aaron Spelling's short-lived Dynasty spinoff, The Colbys.

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Joseph Campanella appeared in a second-season episode of The Golden Girls as a detective.

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Joseph Campanella had a prominent role as Harper Deveraux on the soap opera Days of Our Lives from 1987 to 1988, had a recurring role as a doctor in Beauty and the Beast, a recurring role as Jimmy Everett on General Hospital from 1991 to 1992, and a recurring role on The Bold and the Beautiful from 1996 to 2005.

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On Broadway, Joseph Campanella was featured in three productions during the 1960s.

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Joseph Campanella narrated the Discover science series on the Disney Channel from 1992 to 1994.

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In 1989, Joseph Campanella was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Deveraux in Days of Our Lives.

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Joseph Campanella met his wife, Kathryn Jill Bartholomew, a singer and dancer, in 1963 while he was playing the leading man in Hot Spot on Broadway.

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Joseph Campanella died at the age of 93 on May 16,2018, at his home in Sherman Oaks, California of complications from Parkinson's disease.