Sunday, April 26, 2015

TO HAL BATES FROM JOSEPH CAMPANELLA


"To Hal and Good "Table Talk" / Buena Fortuna / Joseph Campanella"

Joseph Campanella (born November 21, 1924) is an American character actor who has appeared in more than two hundred television and film roles since 1955.

His television appearances include such shows as Decoy, The Eleventh Hour, The Fugitive, Mission: Impossible, Gunsmoke, The Big Valley, The Untouchables, Police Story, The Road West, The Invaders, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Golden Girls, and Mama's Family.

Off and on, on a recurring basis, from 1959 to 1962, he played a criminal named Joe Turino on the long running CBS daytime drama The Guiding Light. He had a role in 1967 as Lew Wickersham in the television series Mannix as Joe Mannix's boss and friend, before the P.I. went solo and started his own firm. Campanella appeared as attorney Brian Darrell from 1969 to 1972 in The Bold Ones: The Lawyers. Campanella played Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Captain Monty Ballard in the crime drama TV movie "Sky Heist" in 1975. He played Ann Romano's ex-husband, Ed Cooper, in seven episodes of One Day at a Time (1975–1984) and Barbara Stanwyck's love interest in the first season (1985–1986) of the Aaron Spelling's short-lived Dynasty spinoff, The Colbys.

The actor had a prominent role as Harper Deveraux on the soap opera Days of Our Lives from 1987 to 1988 and from 1990 to 1992, and a recurring role on The Bold and the Beautiful from 1996 to 2005.