Julie Bovasso

Julie Bovasso

1930-08-01 Brooklyn, New York, USA 23 Credits

Biography

Julia Anne Bovasso (August 1, 1930 – September 14, 1991) was an American actress of stage, screen, and television. Bovasso was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of this borough, the daughter of Angela Mary (née Padovani) and Bernard Michael Bovasso, a teamster. She was Albanian-Italian-American. She attended The High School of Music & Art in Manhattan. Bovasso appeared in numerous films, including Saturday Night Fever (1977) as Florence Manero, the mother o...

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Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family

Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family

2006

as Self (archival footage)

6.0
Acting

Documentary highlighting the development of the screenplay into a film with the desired cast. It also describes the closeness among Italian families, ...

Article 99

Article 99

1992

as Amelia Sturdeyvant

6.1
Acting

Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliv...

My Blue Heaven

My Blue Heaven

1990

as Vinnie's Mother

6.1
Acting

FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is s...

Betsy's Wedding

Betsy's Wedding

1990

as Grandma

5.7
Acting

Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but B...

Hot Paint

Hot Paint

1988

Acting

Two losers rob a rich guy and discover that, among the loot, they've taken a rare painting worth $2.8 million. John Larroquette plays his usual rude, ...

Moonstruck

Moonstruck

1987

as Rita Cappomaggi

6.9
Acting

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, ev...

Moonstruck

Moonstruck

1987

Dialogue Coach

6.9

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, ev...

Wise Guys

Wise Guys

1986

as Lil Dickstein

5.4
Acting

Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to A...

Off Beat

Off Beat

1986

as Mrs. Wareham

4.7
Acting

Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance perform...

A Time to Triumph

A Time to Triumph

1986

6.0
Acting

Construction worker, Chuck Hassan, has a heart attack and is no longer able to work and support his family. After losing their home and savings, his w...

Doubletake

Doubletake

1985

as Lou DiMona

5.2
Acting

Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is called on to head the team of detectives investiga...

Daniel

Daniel

1983

as Frieda Stein

6.6
Acting

The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New...

Staying Alive

Staying Alive

1983

as Mrs. Manero

5.8
Acting

It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a d...

The Verdict

The Verdict

1982

as Maureen Rooney

7.4
Acting

Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a m...

The Gentleman Bandit

The Gentleman Bandit

1981

as Doris

4.8
Acting

Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.

Willie & Phil

Willie & Phil

1980

as Mrs. D'Amico

4.3
Acting

Life imitates art when two Manhattanites — pompous teacher Willie and quiet photographer Phil — become friends after a thought-provoking screening of ...

King Crab

King Crab

1980

as Mrs. Campana

Acting

Two brothers take over the family seafood business, and battle each other for control of the company - and their father's attention.

The Last Tenant

The Last Tenant

1978

as Marie

Acting

Family members face hard decisions about the care of their elderly father who needs constant care and can no longer safely live alone, which particula...

Just Me and You

Just Me and You

1978

as Waitress

5.0
Acting

A salesman travels cross country with a quirky New Yorker.

Saturday Night Fever

Saturday Night Fever

1977

as Flo

6.7
Acting

Tony spends his Saturdays at a disco where his stylish moves raise his popularity among the patrons. But his life outside the disco is not easy and th...

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

1970

as Ramona

5.4
Acting

The story of three wildly neurotic characters: a facially disfigured girl, a homosexual paraplegic, and an introvert epileptic who, after leaving the ...

The Sin of Jesus

1961

4.8
Acting

An egg-sorting woman shrugs off even the appearance of Christ. From Isaak Babel story.

The Iceman Cometh

The Iceman Cometh

1960

as Pearl

7.1
Acting

Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes by-yearly visits to Harry Hope's 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical drinking binges. But on this ...