Bruno VeSota

Bruno William Ve Sota (March 25, 1922 in Chicago, Illinois – September 24, 1976 in Culver City, Los Angeles) was an American character actor, director and producer.

Chicago television

VeSota entered Chicago television in 1945 writing many teleplays for WBKB-TV such as an adaption of Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart. In 1948 he moved to WGN-TV as a local version of Orson Welles; a producer, director and writer.[1]

VeSota was one of the directors of They Stand Accused, "television's first live dramatic courtroom series", which ran on WGN-TV before it expanded to national distribution first on CBS and later on DuMont.[2]

Film work

He made his big screen debut in 1953 with appearances in The System and The Wild One

He is best remembered for appearances in science fiction films in the fifities and early sixties such as Dementia (1955), Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959), The Wasp Woman (1959) and The Wild World of Batwoman (1966), and also directed a few such as Female Jungle (1955),[3] The Brain Eaters (1958) and Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962).[4] In the 1960s he played the barman in a number of episodes of Bonanza.

References

  1. ↑ Berger, Daniel; Jajkowski, Steve (2010). Chicago Television. Arcadia Publishing. p. 24. ISBN 9780738577135. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  2. ↑ Erickson, Hal (2003). Encyclopedia of Television Law Shows: Factual and Fictional Series About Judges, Lawyers and the Courtroom, 1948-2008. McFarland. pp. 259–260. ISBN 9780786438280. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  3. ↑ Palmer, Randy (1 January 1997). Paul Blaisdell, Monster Maker: A Biography of the B Movie Makeup and Special Effects Artist. McFarland. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-7864-0270-0.
  4. ↑ Sobchack, Vivian Carol (1987). Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film. Rutgers University Press. p. 170. ISBN 978-0-8135-2492-4.


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