Bruno Kirby
Bruno Kirby was born in New York City, New York, United States on April 28th, 1949 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 57, Bruno Kirby biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Bruno Kirby (born Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu Jr.) was an American actor, singer, and comedian who died on August 14, 2006.
When Harry Met Sally..., Good Morning, Vietnam, The Godfather Part II, and Donnie Brasco were among his famous characters in City Slickers.
In Stuart Little, he sang Reginald Stout.
Early life
Kirby was born in New York City on April 28, 1949. Bruce Kirby, a native of Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu, was his father (born Bruno Bruno Quidaciolu). John Kirby, his brother, is an acting coach.
Kirby attended the Power Memorial Academy.
Personal life and death
Kirby, who is based on his character in This is Spinal Tape, was a fan of Frank Sinatra. In the late 1970s, he loved playing softball. He was also strongly allergic to horses and required daily allergy shots on the set of City Slickers (part of the reason he declined to return for Curly's Gold).
On September 29, 2003, Kirby married Lynn Sellers. They were married until his death in 2006.
He and his father, actor Bruce Kirby, who was born in 1925, shared the same birthday on April 28.
Kirby died on August 14, 2006, after suffering from leukemia problems, at the age of 57.
Career
Kirby, a 35-year-old actor, was a character actor whose work spanned 35 years. He appeared in The Young Graduates in 1971, but it was his debut in the drama The Young Graduates three years later as the young Peter Clemenza in a sprawling crime film The Godfather Part II, which raised his profile in Hollywood. In The Summer of 1972, Kirby portrayed Anthony Girelli, the son of Richard Castellano's character Joe Girelli, in The Godfather; Castellano had played the older Pete Clemenza.
Room 222 and M*A*S*H's pilot episode portrayed Boone (he had no lines). He appeared in the 1974 Columbo episode "By Dawn's Early Light" as his father Bruce Kirby and on Emergency!'s season 2 episode "B. Kirby Jr.," where he was credited as "B. Kirby Jr."
Kirby, who Leonard Maltin referred to as the "quintessential New Yorker or cranky straight man," appeared in a string of comedies, with fast-talking, belligerent yet likable characters. His most notable roles include: a collaborator of Albert Brooks' film editor in Modern Romance; a talkative limousine driver in This Is Spinal Tap; and a shifty assistant to Marlon Brando, a parody of his Godfather role in The Freshman. Kirby mixed comedies with dramatic roles, including Donnie Brasco as a double-dealing mobster.
In When Harry Met Sally (1989) and City Slickers (1991), Kirby appeared with Billy Crystal. Both Kirby's character as the opinionated best friend to Crystal's character were included in her book. Kirby declined to sign on for City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold unless script updates were made, and Jon Lovitz was subsequently substituted.
Kirby made his Broadway debut in 1991 when he replaced Kevin Spacey in Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers. He had success in Stuart Little and was increasingly active in television in the last decade of his life. Barry Scheck appeared in a 2002 CBS drama American Tragedy as a paroled convict and also produced an episode of the film.
In season 3, "Guys and Doll," as movie mogul Phil Rubinstein, appeared on HBO's Entourage.
In 2006, he was invited to be a member of the Actors Studio, but less than six months before his death.
