Bruno Kirby
Bruno Kirby dead at 57:
Born Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu in 1949 in New York City, he was the son of actor Bruce Kirby. His early work included the 1971 film "Young Graduates," as well as appearances on the television show "Room 222" and the made-for-TV movie "The Summer Without Boys."
In 1974, he scored a role in "The Godfather: Part II," which won several Academy Awards, including best picture. In the film, Kirby played young "Pete Clemenza," following Richard S. Castellano's role in the first installment.
Over the next few years, Kirby made various TV appearances, including "Fame" and "Hill Street Blues," before landing the role of "2nd Lt. Steven Hauk" in Robin William's "Good Morning, Vietnam."
I frequently find myself more interested in the character actors who work on the fringes of fame than in the leading men and women; their stories are often more interesting, at least these days.
UPDATE AND BUMP: My old friend Beeeej has an interest in this story, as noted in the comments:
Because my mother also has leukemia, every autumn my family and some family friends walk in an event called "Light the Night" to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. If your readers are interested in helping out this very important cause - whether in memory of Bruno Kirby, or in honor of their own loved ones - they can visit my Light the Night page...to make a donation by credit card or find the address for sending checks. All donations are tax deductible, and moreover are much appreciated.
He's a lawyer, so you can trust him on the whole tax-deductibility thing, too.
Seriously - it's a very worthy cause.
Posted by Mitch at
August 16, 2006 09:00 AM
| TrackBack
SHIAT!
He was brilliant in "The Freshman," too.
Posted by: Brian Jones at August 16, 2006 07:50 AMKirby died from complications due to leukemia, a disease with which he'd only been diagnosed very recently.
Mitch, I hope you'll forgive this shameless and seemingly opportunistic plug:
Because my mother also has leukemia, every autumn my family and some family friends walk in an event called "Light the Night" to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. If your readers are interested in helping out this very important cause - whether in memory of Bruno Kirby, or in honor of their own loved ones - they can visit my Light the Night page at www.active dot com/donate/ltnNewYo/JAnbinder to make a donation by credit card or find the address for sending checks. All donations are tax deductible, and moreover are much appreciated.
Posted by: Beeeej at August 16, 2006 08:59 AMBeeeej, you can always plug this sort of thing.
In fact...
Posted by: mitch at August 16, 2006 09:19 AMThank you, Mitch, you've gone above and beyond the call, and I really appreciate it. (Unfortunately your blog's restrictions required me to spell out "active dot com" rather than type it properly, so your readers may have trouble with that live link... but copying and pasting it, then replacing " dot " with "." will do the trick. :-)
Posted by: Beeeej at August 16, 2006 09:30 AMNow if we can just get 'clown, Slash and Jody to leave comments, it'll be a regular TopFive reunion...
Posted by: mitch at August 16, 2006 09:30 AMFound my original mistake.
Blah.
There ya go - and best of luck to all.
Am deleting the technical-related comments. Thanks.
Posted by: mitch at August 16, 2006 10:37 AMtnjsxlg bvqfnmjw zfpygqwk kpniw yekuxfl xikgynhb wkdgtin
Posted by: ieoqtm nairzw at September 6, 2006 04:34 AMAverage Household Income- [URL]http://63faffa24e8.sitesled.com/[/URL]; Autopsy Photo 31b70abda63cf7b8 [URL=http://runawaywads.275mb.com/index.html]Reyes[/URL] Inventory Management Solution- [URL]http://savorpeach.t35.com/[/URL]; Marina Del Rey
Posted by: gay+porn at September 7, 2006 02:28 PM