Louis Giambalvo
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| Born | February 8, 1945  Brooklyn, New York |
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Louis Giambalvo (b. February 8, 1945 in Brooklyn, New York), is an American actor, frequently seen on television in guest roles.
His television credits include: Barney Miller, Hart to Hart, St. Elsewhere, Hill Street Blues, The Love Boat, Remington Steele, Simon and Simon, Fame, Knots Landing, Murder She Wrote, Star Trek: Voyager, Brooklyn South, Ally McBeal, ER, NYPD Blue (Mr. Bucci) and Boston Legal. He also was in the award-winning television movie Gia, starring Angelina Jolie, playing the role of Gia Carangi's father Joseph.
Giambalvo's feature films include the 1983 horror/sci-fi film Nightmares. He is best known for his rolls in such films as Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), the 1985 comedy film Real Genius as a CIA man, Maj. Carnagle, and Jagged Edge (1985) as Mr. Fabrizzi. His other well known film role was in the 1988 hit action film The Dead Pool as Gus Wheeler, a deranged person who, in a tragic bid for media attention, pours gasoline on himself, and ends up lighting himself on fire.
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Giambalvo was born and raised in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, where he attended Catholic school. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Harpur College (now Binghamton University) and was a founding member of the avant-garde Colonnades Theater Lab in Greenwich Village, along with other members Danny DeVito and Peter Scolari. In 1979, Giambalvo moved to Los Angeles to begin his film and television career.
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