Biography
Philip Michael Bosco (September 26, 1930 – December 3, 2018) was an American actor. He was known for his Tony Award-winning performance as Saunders in the 1989 Broadway production of Lend Me a Tenor, and for his starring roles in many movies like My Best Friend's Wedding, The Savages and The First Wives Club.
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Complete Filmography

Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World
2010
as (voice)
Examine the American whaling industry from its 17th-century origins in drift and shore whaling off the coast of New England and Cape Cod, through the ...
When the Evening Comes
2009
as Martin Corrado
Charlie Corrado is pushing forty and still lives with his grandparents, Martin and Marion Corrado. Although he feels safe in the environment they have...

The Savages
2007
as Lenny Savage
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
as Saunders (segment "Lend Me a Tenor")
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips fro...

Freedomland
2006
as Priest
A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.

Hitch
2005
as Mr. O'Brian
Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes pro...

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
2003
as Other Voices (voice)
In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car h...

Abandon
2002
as Professor Jergensen
A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a t...

Mark Twain
2002
as (voice)
Largely considered to be the greatest American author, Mark Twain is celebrated in this exhaustive documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns.

Kate & Leopold
2001
as Otis
When her scientist ex-boyfriend discovers a portal to travel through time -- and brings back a 19th-century nobleman named Leopold to prove it -- a sk...

No Ordinary Baby
2001
as Dr. Ed Walden
A reporter gets the scoop on the first ever human cloning, but the furor surrounding the event jeopardizes the baby's birth and the career of the resp...

Borough of Kings
2000
as Uncle Chicky
Toil and trouble. Jimmy, an aspiring actor, wants out of South Brooklyn where hoods run the show. Since the death of his firefighter father, Jimmy's f...

Shaft
2000
as Walter Wade Senior
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail...

Cupid & Cate
2000
as Dominic DeAngelo
Cate has a small boutique where she sells vintage clothes. She is dating some snob whose mother thinks that Cate is a second-class citizen because of ...

Wonder Boys
2000
as Emily's Father
Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago....

Bonanno: A Godfather's Story
1999
as Steve Maggadino Sr.
The true life story of mafia boss Joesph Bonanno. The story spans from Bonanno's early beginings in Italy, to his conquests in America.

Twelfth Night
1998
as Malvolio
Ah, summer! School is out, work slows down and passions heat up in the warm summer air. Theatrically speaking, it's the perfect time for a sexy comedy...

Carriers
1998
as Colonel John O. Bailey
A military woman and a worried mother travel overseas and to New Mexico to investigate a deadly virus.

Deconstructing Harry
1997
as Professor Clark
Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated fr...

Critical Care
1997
as Dr. Hofstader
Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their com...

Moon Over Broadway
1997
as Self
A documentary portrait of the backstage efforts to stage the play Moon Over Buffalo on Broadway.

My Best Friend's Wedding
1997
as Walter Wallace
When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter rea...

The First Wives Club
1996
as Uncle Carmine Morelli
After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the tr...

It Takes Two
1995
as Vincenzo
Identical 9-year-olds from very different backgrounds: orphaned Amanda and wealthy Alyssa meet at summer camp and decide to switch places -- and play ...

Young at Heart
1995
as Patsy
A matriarch of three generations born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, discovers that her recently-deceased husband has lost their bar and home to a...

Nobody's Fool
1994
as Judge Flatt
A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for his nemesis and flirting with his nemesis' young wif...
Janek: The Silent Betrayal
1994
as Chief Wycoff
Police lieutenant Frank Janek is investigating a series of murders in a building owned by a famous Broadway producer.

Safe Passage
1994
as Mort
Recently estranged from her husband, and mother of seven sons, Mag Singer stands poised to pursue a whole new way of life. But when one of her childre...

Milk Money
1994
as Jerry the Pope
Three young boys pool their money and pay V, a kindhearted prostitute, to strip for them. Afterward, she drives them home to the suburbs -- but then h...

The Forget-Me-Not Murders
1994
as Chief
A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is thought to be targeting the policeman's god-daughter.

Against the Wall
1994
as Oswald
In 1971, a warden at Attica Penitentiary is caught up in a hostage crisis when inmates take over the prison to demand better living conditions.

Angie
1994
as Frank Scacciapensieri
Angie lives in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and dreams of a better life. When she finds out she's pregnant by her boyfriend, Vinnie, she decides she'll have...
Lincoln
1992
as Frederick Seward (voice)
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.

Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann
1992
as Narrator
Music For The Movies: Bernard Herrmann explores the work of a composer who created music for over 50 films, collaborating with such diverse directors ...

Diego Rivera: I Paint What I See
1992
as Bertram Wolfe
The first biographical film on the famed Mexican artist, traces his life from childhood through his Cubist period, his leading role in the Mexican mur...

Straight Talk
1992
as Gene Perlman
Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in ...

Shadows and Fog
1991
as Mr. Paulsen
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.

The Return of Eliot Ness
1991
as Art Malto
Detective Eliot Ness comes back to town to fight corruption and avenge a former partner's murder with the help of the son.

F/X2
1991
as Lt. Ray Silak, NYPD
F/X man Rollie Tyler is now a toymaker. Mike, the ex-husband of his girlfriend Kim, is a cop. He asks Rollie to help catch a killer. The operation goe...

True Colors
1991
as Sen. Frank Steubens
Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.

Coney Island
1991
as Narrator (voice)
Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of New York real estate was internationally famous. ...

The Crash of 1929
1990
as Narrator
Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted that America would soon enter a time when there wo...

Quick Change
1990
as Bus Driver
With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation...

Blue Steel
1990
as Frank Turner
Rookie cop Megan Turner orders a burglar to drop his gun. He whirls to shoot. Too late. Turner fires, killing him instantly. When someone lifts the as...

Murder in Black and White
1990
as Wycoff
A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate.

The Dream Team
1989
as O'Malley
Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperone, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accident...

The Luckiest Man in the World
1989
as Sam Posner
New York City garment manufacturer Sam Posner is a liar, a bully and a cheat who makes life unpleasant for his wife, mistress and everyone else around...

The Wilderness Idea: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the First Great Battle for Wilderness
1989
as Gifford Pinchot (Voice)
To one man, it was perfect natural resource to benefit thousands of people. To another, it was a beautiful, sacred land that mustn't be defiled under ...

Working Girl
1988
as Oren Trask
Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg ski...

Internal Affairs
1988
as John Wycoff
A skilled police detective in a case involving the strange, sadistic murder of a young prostitute who has been killed in exactly the same fashion as a...

Another Woman
1988
as Sam
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acousti...

3 Men and a Baby
1987
as Det. Sgt. Melkowitz
Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends.

Echoes in the Darkness
1987
as Judge Garb
Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion Townshi...

Suspect
1987
as Paul Gray
When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and ...
Read Between The Lines
1987
as Grandfather
When an illiterate toy maker has the right to his invention stolen, his grandson and the Harlem Globetrotters team up to get them back.

Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
1986
as Thomas Colfax
Jennifer's life changes when Warner, now Vice President of the United States, decides to see her and her son, Joshua. At the same time, Jennifer is un...

Children of a Lesser God
1986
as Dr. Curtis Franklin
Starting his new job as an instructor at a New England school for the deaf, James Leeds meets Sarah Norman, a young deaf woman who works at the school...

Liberty
1986
as Boss William Tweed
Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and the people responsible for its creation.

The Money Pit
1986
as Curly
After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-...

Flanagan
1985
as James Flanagan
Aging New York cabbie Flanagan still has hopes of making it as a stage actor. He can recite any Shakespeare sonnet and is facile with accents, but he ...

Heaven Help Us
1985
as Brother Paul
Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class ...

The Pope of Greenwich Village
1984
as Paulie's Father
Charlie and his troublesome cousin Paulie decide to steal $150000 in order to back a "sure thing" race horse that Paulie has inside information on. Th...

Trading Places
1983
as Doctor
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

Hogan's Goat
1971
as Father Coyne
A young Irish ward boss has a chance to be elected mayor, but the disgraced current mayor makes sure the candidate's wife learns about his affair with...

A Lovely Way to Die
1968
as Fuller
A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a rich recent widow. She is on trial for her husband's mu...

An Enemy of the People
1966
Set in a Norwegian hamlet, an idealistic physician discovers that the town's hot springs are contaminated. But with the community relying on the spa f...