14 Facts About Philip Bosco

Philip Bosco was known for his Tony Award-winning performance as Saunders in the 1989 Broadway production of Lend Me a Tenor, and for his starring role in the 2007 film The Savages.

Philip Bosco's father was of Italian descent and his mother, German.

Philip Bosco married a fellow Catholic University student, Nancy Ann Dunkle, on January 2,1957.

Philip Bosco died at his home of complications from dementia on December 3,2018 at the age of 88.

Philip Bosco appeared in revivals of plays by George Bernard Shaw, including Man and Superman, Saint Joan, Mrs Warren's Profession, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House, and You Never Can Tell, winning Tony nominations for the last three.

Philip Bosco appeared with Shirley Knight in the Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Come Back, Little Sheba.

Philip Bosco played Grandpa Potts in the 2005 Broadway production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and played the aged Captain Shotover in a Broadway revival of Heartbreak House in 2006.

Philip Bosco retired from the stage in 2009 after appearing in the City Center Encores production of Finian's Rainbow, although he lent his voice to Douglas Carter Beane's 2010 play Mr and Mrs Fitch.

Philip Bosco narrated Ric Burns' 1991 documentary film Coney Island, and voiced a number of characters for Ken Burns' documentaries for PBS.

Philip Bosco portrayed Vincenzo the butler in the 1995 comedy It Takes Two; and Walter Wallace, father of the bride-to-be, in the 1997 romantic comedy My Best Friend's Wedding, co-starring Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz and Dermot Mulroney.

In 1988, Philip Bosco won a Daytime Emmy Award for his appearance in the ABC Afterschool Special "Read Between The Lines".

Philip Bosco was a series regular on the FX original series Damages.

Philip Bosco narrated Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro Cactus by Barbara Bash on the PBS series Reading Rainbow in its sixty-second episode on March 27,1990.

Philip Bosco was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1998.