Jon Raymond Polito was an American character actor and voice artist. In a film and television career spanning 35 years, he amassed over 220 credits.
Born: December 29, 1950, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: September 1, 2016, Duarte, California, USA
Cause of Death: Cancer
Nationality: American
Height: 5'8" (1.715m)
The Broadway Melody, also known as The Broadway Melody of 1929, is an American pre-Code musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929–1930. Today the Technicolor sequence is lost; only a black and white copy survives in available versions. The film was the first musical released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was Hollywood's first all-talking musical.
Rebellious socialite Ellie Andrews marries King Wesley but her wealthy father has it annulled. Tired of her father's control, she runs away by diving off in the family yacht in Miami and heading for New York. On the bus she meets street-smart reporter Peter Warne. They end up traveling together as Warne hopes to get a great story, and Ellie needs his worldly help. Nearing New York, with their many adventures coming to an end, they find that they are reluctantly in love and afraid to admit it to each other. After she mistakenly thinks that Warne has run out on her Ellie returns to King Wesley, but for how long?
White Christmas is a 1954 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. Filmed in VistaVision and Technicolor, it features the songs of Irving Berlin, including a new version of the title song, "White Christmas", introduced by Crosby in the film Holiday Inn.
Twentieth Century Fox
Wyoming, early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heals. Their solution - escape to Bolivia.
Jerome Hellman Productions
A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune but, in the process, finds himself a new friend.
Two youngsters from rival (ethnically divergent) New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. This romantic musical update of 'Romeo and Juliet' won ten Oscars. The tale of a turf war between rival teenage gangs in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen and the two lovers who cross battle lines has captivated audiences for four decades. The Stephen Sondheim/Leonard Bernstein score is just one of the reasons.
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Peter Riegert's unfailing ability to slip effortlessly into almost any role, be it dramatic, comedic, or musical, has enabled him to work continuously in films, television and on stage for over four decades.
Riegert marked time in a series of jobs from teaching eighth grade to waiting tables before he decided he wanted to pursue a career as an actor. Soon after settling on show business, the Bronx native joined the improvisational comedy troupe, War Babies.
Bonny Bartlett, grew up in Illinois. Her interest in theatre came from her father, an actor turned businessman, who loved to quote Shakespeare. A straight-A student, Bonnie attended Northwestern University to study acting. There she met her future husband, Bill Daniels, also an actor (our March 2001 Profile).
You recently worked on the score to "The Matrix Reloaded", and used similar material from "The Matrix". Tell me a bit about the elements you used to create this score.
Well, the Wachowski Brothers None of us were interested in abandoning what had been established in the first picture; we wanted to expand on it, just like the Wachowskis expanded on their palette. So I was definitely looking to see how I could take those motifs and post-modern concepts and pursue something bigger and more ambitious.
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
I'll give you a definite maybe.
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them!
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
To young actor. Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
Seeing a murder on television, can help work off one's antagonisms.
And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some!
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
When asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
I'll moider da bum!
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
While attending a Production Meeting
This is no place to ask questions!!
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it. Therefore, the showmen are…
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
