Frank Campanella

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Frank Campanella
Born	March 12, 1919 New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	December 30, 2006(2006-12-30) (aged 87) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Character Actor
Years active	1949-2006 (his death)

Persondata
Name	Campanella, Frank
Alternative names
Short description	American character actor
Date of birth	March 12, 1919
Place of birth	New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of death	December 30, 2006
Place of death	Los Angeles, California,U.S.

Frank Campanella
Born March 12, 1919
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died December 30, 2006(2006-12-30) (aged 87)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation Character Actor
Years active 1949-2006 (his death)

Frank Campanella (born March 12, 1919 - died December 30, 2006) was an American character actor.

Biography

Campanella was born in New York City, the son of Sicilian immigrants Mary O. and Philip Campanella, a musician.^[1] He was the brother of actor Joseph Campanella and spoke mostly Italian growing up; this proved useful during World War II, when he worked as a civilian translator for the U.S. government. Campanella attended Manhattan College, where he studied drama.

Campanella's first film role was as "Mook the Moon-Man" in the 1949 science fiction series Captain Video and His Video Rangers. He went on to appear in more than 100 film and television episodes, usually playing the "tough guy." Campanella appeared as a bartender in Mel Brooks' The Producers (1968), starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. He helped Robert De Niro learn Sicilian for his role as young Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather: Part II (1974).

Campanella's early television roles included three appearances as different police lieutenants on the syndicated crime drama, Decoy, starring Beverly Garland as the first female police lead in a television series. In one of the Decoy episodes, he appeared with his brother, Joseph Campanella. Over his career he appeared, often in police roles, in such well-known series as Ironside, Mannix, The Rockford Files, Chico and the Man, All in the Family, Maude, Rhoda, and The Love Boat.^[2]

Campanella died on December 30, 2006 at his home in Los Angeles, California.

References

↑ Joseph Campanella Biography (1927-)
↑ "Frank Campanella". Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved March 8, 2013.

External links

Frank Campanella at the Internet Movie Database

Obituary

Authority control

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Persondata

Name Campanella, Frank

Alternative names

Short description American character actor

Date of birth March 12, 1919

Place of birth New York City, New York, U.S.

Date of death December 30, 2006

Place of death Los Angeles, California,U.S.

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