Joseph Campanella
Actor Joseph Campanella's father, a Sicilian immigrant, was an early member of the American Federation of Musicians; perhaps as a result, the younger Campanella remained active in liberal "underdog" political causes all his life. At eighteen, Campanella became one of the youngest-ever skippers in the wartime navy. He went on to attend Columbia University, then began his acting career on the New York stage and in TV soap operas. Over the next three decades he would portray Joe Turino on The Guiding Light, Alec Fielding on The Doctors, Dr. Ted Steffen on the nighttime TV serial The Doctors and the Nurses and Senator Harper Devereaux on Days of Our Lives. Additional TV assignments for Campanella included the role of Mike Connors' boss on the first season (1967-68) of Mannix; attorney Brian Darrell on four seasons (1969-73) of The Bold Ones; and Hutch Corrigan on the 1985-86 season of The Colbys. He also narrated several National Geographic Specials, and was host of the syndicated 1983 revival of This is Your Life. A steadfast film supporting player, Campanella was finally awarded a lead in 1972's "rampaging rat" thriller Ben, only to find that his was the second name above the title: "Leave it to me," Campanella remarked with his usual self-deprecation, "to get second billing to a rat in my first big starring movie." Recent credits include a "guest voice" role as Dr. Thorne on the Fox Network's Batman: The Animated Series. Joseph Campanella is the brother of Frank Campanella, a character actor usually cast as uniformed big-city cops.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.2376 |
| Birthday | 1924-11-21 |
| Place of Birth | Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Joseph Anthony Campanella, |
1998
Charles Darwin: Evolution's Voice
10/1
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution stands as one of the most important discoveries in the history of science. Yet in his lifetime, Darwin was reluct...
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Charles Darwin: Evolution's Voice
1992
Search for the Great Sharks
6.063/8
A journey into the land of sharks. The old myth of swimming killing machines is put against the true nature of those rather peaceful hunters, whose ev...
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Search for the Great Sharks
1972
Silent Running
6.388/658
After the entire flora goes extinct, ecologist Lowell maintains a greenhouse aboard a space station for the future with his android companions. Howeve...
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Silent Running
1977
Mission to Glory: A True Story
7/2
Father Kino, a 17th-century Jesuit missionary, dedicated his life to helping Native Americans in the Southwest by teaching them agricultural skills as...
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Mission to Glory: A True Story
1972
Ben
6.104/144
A lonely boy becomes good friends with Ben, a rat. This rat is also the leader of a pack of vicious killer rats, killing lots of people.
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Ben
1967
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
6.3/115
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as...
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1990
No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers
6.7/96
Two feuding brothers of differing political views, one a policeman, the other a martial artist, join forces to avenge the death of their father, a ret...
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No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers
2007
The Dukes
5.143/7
The Dukes,a Doo Wop group, were on top of the world at 17, now are struggling for survival in 2008. Their manager is desperately trying to get them wo...
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The Dukes
1969
The Whole World Is Watching
9/1
In this second pilot of "The Lawyers," a rotating segment of "The Bold Ones" series, the firm of Nichols, Darrell & Darrell defends the leader of a st...
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The Whole World Is Watching
1971
And Then They Forgot God
0/0
"And Then They Forgot God" is set in a dystopian future, one in which the environment has suffered (people carry around breathing gear) and people mus...
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And Then They Forgot God
2002
The Glow
5.397/29
A newly-wed NYC couple move into a low-rent luxury apartment only to be harassed by cryptic elderly neighbors.
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The Glow
1980
Hangar 18
5.181/83
During a Space Shuttle mission a satellite rams a unidentified flying object. The UFO afterwards performs an emergency landing in the deserts of Arizo...
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Hangar 18
1974
Hit Lady
3.714/7
At a Texas barbecue, a pretty woman chats up a wealthy rancher, and soon they're off on a horseback ride. Before she shoots him on an isolated road, s...
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Hit Lady
1975
Journey from Darkness
7/2
A brilliant blind student fights a seemingly hopeless battle to gain acceptance into medical school.
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Journey from Darkness
2002
America's National Parks: The Sights and Sounds of Yellowstone National Park
0/0
This breathtaking video tour of Yellowstone National Park is captured by nature photographer Russ Finley in all it's glory, and narrated by actor Jose...
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America's National Parks: The Sights and Sounds of Yellowstone National Park
1999
Grizzly Adams and the Legend of Dark Mountain
7.75/2
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Grizzly Adams and the Legend of Dark Mountain
1990
Down the Drain
4.25/8
A dishonest lawyer devises a scheme to rob a bank by recruiting criminals he has represented to do the job for him. When the robbery is completed, he...
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Down the Drain
1992
Dead Girls Don't Tango
4/2
Police inspector must stop a serial killer who dances tango with his victims before strangling them.
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Dead Girls Don't Tango
1980
The Plutonium Incident
6.5/2
A plutonium plant employee becomes the target of management, as well as union harassment, when she tries to blow the whistle on the company for neglig...
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The Plutonium Incident
1970
Zoos of the World
0/0
Travel around the globe to some of the best zoos, which are striving to fill a new role that relates directly to environmental education.
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Zoos of the World
1964
The Young Lovers
4/4
A carefree college student has to face up to responsibility when his girlfriend announces she's pregnant.
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The Young Lovers
1974
Unwed Father
5.333/3
A teenage boy fathers a child with his girlfriend. He then fights his parents, the girlfriend, the girl's parents and the courts in an attempt to get...
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Unwed Father
1972
The Trouble With People
0/0
The overall title for five short sketches by Neil Simon. 1: "The Greasy Diner." The story of a couple who enter a diner, take one look around, then wi...
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The Trouble With People
1975
Sky Hei$t
5.3/6
A husband and wife come up with a plan to steal $10 million in gold, using the hijacking of a police helicopter as a diversion.
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Sky Hei$t
1979
Meteor
5.203/177
After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it hits, it will cause an incredible ca...
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Meteor
1978
Return to Fantasy Island
6/4
A second feature-length pilot film for the wish-fulfillment series sees six lucky people having their dreams fulfilled on the luxury resort island. Ca...
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Return to Fantasy Island
2000
All About Jesus – Who Is This Jesus?
7/1
Hosted by D. James Kennedy, PH.D. and Dean Jones. Enriched with scenes from the dramatic mini-series A.D., this fast pace documentary provides excitin...
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All About Jesus – Who Is This Jesus?
1988
The Game
6.667/3
To avenge the death of his family, a man infiltrates a group of wealthy killers who take homeless people and use them as prey in a sadistic game of "h...
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The Game
1990
A Show of Force
5.3/13
In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Meléndez investigates the death of two radical Puerto Rican activists, whom she begins to believe m...
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A Show of Force
1997
James Dean: Race with Destiny
6.8/4
James Dean's remarkable talent and rebel attitude took Hollywood by storm. But as Dean's star begins to rise, his passionate affair with Italian ingen...
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James Dean: Race with Destiny
1993
Magic Kid
5.105/19
Karate action and laughs never cease when a brother and sister go to California to visit their uncle. They soon discover that he's an alcoholic on the...
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Magic Kid
1971
Murder Once Removed
4.929/14
Television thriller in which a scheming doctor murders once for love and then has to kill again to cover it up.
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Murder Once Removed
1993
Dark Dreams
0/0
In this creepy anthology thriller a mind reader detects the thoughts of someone who wants to kill her, a young man is given miraculous healing powers...
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Dark Dreams
1983
Great Transport
7.5/8
This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodin...
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Great Transport
1982
My Body, My Child
9/1
A woman must choose between having an abortion or giving birth to a deformed child.
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My Body, My Child
1999
The Great Builders of Egypt
0/0
Documentary about the building of ancient Egypt
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The Great Builders of Egypt
1992
Cafe Romeo
6/2
A New York City waitress finds opposition rather than support from her husband in achieving her dream of becoming a designer.
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Cafe Romeo
1974
Terror on the 40th Floor
4.5/10
A number of business people, keeping the Christmas Eve office party going longer than was originally intended, are beset by a fire that starts in the...
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Terror on the 40th Floor
1996
The Glass Cage
2.4/5
Swarthy Paul Yeager arrives in New Orleans, and promptly gets a job bartending at La Cage du Verre, a show bar where his former girlfriend Jacqueline...
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The Glass Cage
2005
Spider-Man: The Venom Saga
7/95
A space-shuttle crash-landing puts the famous web-slinger Spider-Man in contact with a living alien substance that bonds to his suit and enhances his...
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Spider-Man: The Venom Saga
1994
Save Me
4.474/31
An accountant beleaguered by personal and professional problems gets involved with a femme fatale and her mysterious psychiatrist.
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Save Me
1980
Defiance
6.422/32
Tommy takes up temporary housing in a New York neighborhood plagued by a violent gang called the Souls. Tommy is waiting for his next assignment as a...
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Defiance
1992
Space Case
10/1
In the future, mental institutions are located on far-away planets. One such planet is the apex for an invasion of Earth by rodent-like aliens. It is...
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Space Case
1990
Body Chemistry
4.462/13
A research project on sexual response leads two doctors into an affair and their deepest passions and darkest fantasies are revealed.
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Body Chemistry
1973
The President's Plane Is Missing
6.286/7
When the President's plane mysteriously disappears with him on board, it is left to the seemingly weak Vice President to try to avert a nuclear exchan...
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The President's Plane Is Missing
1993
The Force Within
6.5/2
This portrays harmony and friction involving oriental and Mediterranean factions, both proficient at martial artistry, but one is dabbling in illicit...
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The Force Within
1974
Skyway to Death
5.25/4
The passengers in an aerial tramway are trapped when the tramway breaks down 8,500 feet in the air.
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Skyway to Death
1987
Steele Justice
4.714/28
Steele is ex-cop and Vietnam vet who is determined to bring down Kwan, former South Vietnamese general and now rich and powerful drug lord.
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Steele Justice
1995
Hologram Man
4.136/22
Five years after the mad terrorist Slash Galagher was sentenced to holographic stasis, he is given a parole hearing. But an equipment failure engineer...
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Hologram Man
2008
For Heaven's Sake
9/1
SARAH MIILLER, known to her grandchildren as 'Nanny,' is still slim and athletic in her early seventies. She's a successful author, is feisty, intelle...
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For Heaven's Sake
2007
Christmas at Cadillac Jack's
10/1
While stranded at a diner on Christmas Eve, Rose finds personal redemption in protecting a young baby from an abusive father on her way to reconciling...
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Christmas at Cadillac Jack's
1992
Original Intent
4.2/5
Matthew Cameron (Jay Richardson) is a lawyer undergoing a midlife crisis despite having a seemingly perfect life with his wife, advertising executive...
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Original Intent
1972
Drive Hard, Drive Fast
9/1
A race-car driver finds himself in a romantic triangle and a machete-swinging stranger trying to kill him.
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Drive Hard, Drive Fast
1994
Too Bad About Jack
10/1
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Too Bad About Jack
1974
Child Under a Leaf
4/6
A restless woman seems unable to leave her husband or her lover.
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Child Under a Leaf
1973
You'll Never See Me Again
7/5
After a couple have an argument, the wife disappears. The husband searches for her, only to discover evidence that implicates him in her murder.
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You'll Never See Me Again
1991
Last Call
4.5/15
As a little girl, Cindy had to witness how the shady estate agent Jason Laurence killed her mother. In the 22 years since then, he was never called to...
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Last Call
1981
Earthbound
5/4
A family of space aliens crash lands on Earth when their spaceship conks out.
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Earthbound
1982
Computers Are People, Too!
7/2
This movie explores the possibilities of interaction between man and computer, with some historical background. It demonstrates techniques introduced...
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Computers Are People, Too!
1978
Ring of Passion
7/2
Fact-based drama about the two Joe Louis-Max Schmeling heavyweight fights and the way both boxers unwillingly became symbols of political ideologies j...
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Ring of Passion
1969
Any Second Now
6.75/4
A photographer plans to murder his rich young wife after she catches him cheating on her and threatens to divorce him so he won't get any of her money...
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Any Second Now
1970
Wild River: The Colorado
0/0
Take a relaxing trip from the headwaters of Rocky Mountain National Park to Mexico's Gulf of California as actor Joseph Campanella follows the Colorad...
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Wild River: The Colorado
1992
Terror on Track 9
3.833/6
A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Station.
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Terror on Track 9
1970
A Clear and Present Danger
7/1
The son of a U.S. Senator takes on the cause of clean air when a friend dies of emphysema.
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A Clear and Present Danger
1973
Honor Thy Father
5/3
Joseph Bologna stars as Bill Bonanno in this made-for-television adaptation of the controversial bestseller from Gay Talese, chronicling the rise of N...
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Honor Thy Father
1957
Four Boys and a Gun
6.625/8
The moving story of four young men struggling against overwhelming odds to remain honest. When their crooked employer shorts their earnings; they turn...
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Four Boys and a Gun
1985
Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story
10/1
This documentary presents the story of Dorothy Stratten, who was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Year in 1980. Stratten was murdered by her husband...
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Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story
2006
The Showdown
0/0
It's the 9th inning of a high-stakes baseball game. The batter faces his worst adversary. The Old West. Jonathan C. Edwards confronts the nightmares o...
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The Showdown
1987
Death Diploma
7.5/2
Documentary on notorious US murderers. Includes Charles Manson and his family, Kenneth Bianchi "The Hillside Strangler", Henry Lee Lucas, and Otis Too...
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Death Diploma
1994
The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A.
6.389/9
Detective Jim Rockford works to uncover facts of the death of a wealthy socialite whose two grown children are accused of murdering her. Complicating...
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The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A.
1987
The River That Harms
0/0
This illuminating film documents the largest radioactive waste spill in U.S. history - a national tragedy that received little attention. With the sou...
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The River That Harms
2004
Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock
7/10
Doctor Octavius was a brilliant scientist working on a revolutionary new invention until a laboratory accident fused a set of mechanical arms to his b...
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Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock
2002
Spider-Man: The Return of the Green Goblin
7.5/62
The Webslinger faces the ultimate challenge when his arch-nemesis discovers his identity and kidnaps his one true love, Mary Jane Watson.
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