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Dick Latessa is a Actor American born on 15 september 1929 at Cleveland (USA)

Dick Latessa

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Nationality USA
Birth 15 september 1929 at Cleveland (USA)
Death 19 december 2016 (at 87 years)

Richard Robert "Dick" Latessa (born September 15, 1929) is an American actor.

Latessa was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1929. He made his Broadway debut in The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N in 1968. Additional theatre credits include Follies, Rags, The Cherry Orchard, Damn Yankees, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Awake and Sing!, Cabaret, The Will Rogers Follies and Hairspray, for which he won both the Tony- and Drama Desk awards for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. In 2012, he appeared opposite Linda Lavin in the Nicky Silver drama, The Lyons.

He has been featured in several Neil Simon plays, including Chapter Two, I Ought to Be in Pictures, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound and Proposals. He was featured in the 2010 revival of the Burt Bacharach and Hal David musical, Promises, Promises as Dr. Dreyfuss.

Latessa's screen credits include The Substance of Fire, Alfie, and Stigmata. He appeared in numerous television movies, including Izzy and Moe, The Trial of Bernhard Goetz, and Pudd'nhead Wilson, and such primetime series as Get Smart, Mission: Impossible, Ironside, Spenser: For Hire, The Sopranos, Ed and Law & Order.

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Charles Shyer
Charles Shyer
(1 films)
Olympia Dukakis
Olympia Dukakis
(2 films)
Nia Long
Nia Long
(2 films)
Thomas Fitzgerald
Thomas Fitzgerald
(1 films)
Elaine Pope
Elaine Pope
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Dick Latessa (9 films)

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A Buddy Story
A Buddy Story (2010)
, 1h24
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Elisabeth Moss, Lee Garlington, Annabelle Gurwitch, Tovah Feldshuh, Tim Guinee, Dick Latessa
Roles Grandfather
Rating60% 3.0489053.0489053.0489053.0489053.048905
Buddy Gilbert (Gavin Bellour) is a struggling musician living in NYC. He spends his days touring the northeast with his pet turtle, playing community centers, dive bars and coffee shops because, he says, it beats a 9-to-5.
The Great New Wonderful
The Great New Wonderful (2005)
, 1h27
Directed by Danny Leiner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Jim Parsons, Tony Shalhoub, Judy Greer, Jim Gaffigan, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Roles Jerry Binder
Rating55% 2.750782.750782.750782.750782.75078
The Great New Wonderful is a series of vignettes of incidents taking place concurrently around Manhattan. The only other thing linking the incidents is the month in which they occur: September 2002. Recurring themes include Frustration and Sugar.
Alfie
Alfie (2004)
, 1h45
Directed by Charles Shyer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films based on plays
Actors Jude Law, Marisa Tomei, Susan Sarandon, Sienna Miller, Nia Long, Omar Epps
Roles Joe
Rating61% 3.0971953.0971953.0971953.0971953.097195
The film opens up by introducing Alfie (Jude Law), a charismatic, charming, bed-hopping, Vespa-riding Cockney who resides in Manhattan. An impeccably stylish lad in his late twenties, Alfie funds his hedonistic lifestyle by working as a driver for the local limousine service. Meeting, romancing, and seducing women comes as second nature to Alfie. In addition to maintaining a casual relationship with a single mother named Julie (Marisa Tomei) that he refers to as his "semi-regular-quasi-sort-of-girlfriend thing", he also sleeps with various girls on the side, such as the married-yet-neglected-by-her-husband blonde named Dorie (Jane Krakowski) whom he regularly meets for sex after work in the back of his limo. At the first inkling Dorie may desire their liaison to grow into something more, he decides to stop all contact. Alfie ultimately views women as expendable, cutting them loose as soon as he feels they're starting to cramp his style.
Stigmata
Stigmata (1999)
, 1h43
Directed by Rupert Wainwright
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about religion
Actors Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Pryce, Nia Long, Rade Šerbedžija, Enrico Colantoni
Roles Father Gianni Delmonico
Rating62% 3.100713.100713.100713.100713.10071
The film opens in the Brazilian village of Belo Quinto, with Father Andrew Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne), a former scientist and an ordained Jesuit priest who investigates supposed miracles, examining a statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe weeping blood at the funeral of Father Paulo Alameida (Jack Donner). While Andrew is collecting evidence, a young boy steals the rosary from the father's hand. The boy later sells it to a woman in a marketplace, who sends it to her atheist daughter Frankie Paige (Patricia Arquette) living in Pittsburgh.
Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story
Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story (1993)
, 1h34
Directed by Bill Corcoran
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality
Actors Melissa Gilbert, Kate Nelligan, Shirley Douglas, Dick Latessa, Ellen Burstyn, Kenneth Welsh
Roles Jack Karney
Rating56% 2.8105552.8105552.8105552.8105552.810555
Situated in the early 1980s, Shari Karney is a successful attorney, assigned to an incest case, involving a three-year-old girl, Christie, who is being molested by her father. She initially refuses to take the case, explaining that she isn't familiar with cases involving sexual abuse. She is later convinced by the child's mother, Darlene Holland, but the trial proves to be difficult. Nine months later, she is heavily invested in the case, which involves her private life. She has trouble sleeping at night and is often bothered by flashbacks of her own past. Whenever she tries to make love with her boyfriend Mark, she suffers panic attacks. She eventually attacks David Holland, the man charged, in the courtroom and is therefore sent to jail for two days.
Rockabye
Rockabye (1986)
, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Valerie Bertinelli, Rachel Ticotin, Jason Alexander, Jimmy Smits, Ray Baker, Roderick Cook
Roles Malcolm Sterling
Rating58% 2.9138252.9138252.9138252.9138252.913825
Stranded in New York City due to missing a bus caused by a delay of a plane, recently divorced mother Susannah Bartok (Valerie Bertinelli) is attacked and maced outside Macy's in Manhattan, and her 2-year-old son gets kidnapped. After she unsuccessfully pleads to the police, who feel indifferent about the case, newspaper reporter Victoria Garcia (Rachel Ticotin) helps the young mother in finding her son. Susannah, desperate to find her son, initially rejects Victoria's help because she is realistic about the possible fate of her boy, though convinced that the police are not doing their job quickly enough, she allows Victoria's help. Victoria redirects Susannah to a psychic called Christopher Zellner (Roderick Cook), who believes that her son Sonny is dead. Susannah refuses to believe him, and continues her intense and exhausting search. After putting a photo of her son in the newspaper, several 'witnesses' report to the police, but they are all frauds, annoying Lt. Ernest Foy (Jason Alexander). During their search, they discover an underground black market ring, selling young children.