Bruce Kirby (actor)

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name = Bruce Kirby


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birthdate = April 24, 1928
birthplace = New York City, New York
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Bruce Kirby (born Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu; April 24, 1928) is an American character actor.

Though he has been a working actor since the 1950s, Kirby is most familiar to "Columbo" fans as the gullible Sergeant Kramer. He also appeared in the 1971 movie called "How to Frame a Figg" with Don Knotts. A notable recent appearance was as Pop Ryan, father of Officer John Ryan (played by Matt Dillon) in the 2004 film "Crash".

He has appeared on television from "Goodyear Television Playhouse" in the 1950s to "I Dream of Jeannie", "The Nurses", "The Defenders", "Car 54, Where Are You?", and "The Patty Duke Show" in the 1960s to "Bonanza", "Ironside", "Barney Miller","The Rockford Files", and "Alice" in the 1970s to "Remington Steele", "Night Court", "Matlock", "Hill Street Blues", "Lou Grant" and "Punky Brewster" in the 1980s to "The Golden Girls", "L.A. Law", "In the Heat of the Night", "Murphy Brown", "Murder, She Wrote", "Chicago Hope", "The Sopranos", "The Agency" and "The West Wing" in the 1990s.

His late son, Bruno Kirby, was also a character actor in both comedies and dramas.

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DATE OF BIRTH= April 24, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH= New York City, New York
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