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Joe Spano

Joe Spano

Highest Rated: 96% Apollo 13 (1995)

Lowest Rated: 2% Texas Rangers (2001)

Birthday: Jul 7, 1946

Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA

The often soft-spoken, slightly built Joe Spano came into the public eye after more than a decade as a stage player in the San Francisco Bay Area when he was cast as Det. Henry Goldblume on the acclaimed NBC police drama "Hill Street Blues." The detective eventually romanced the ex-wife of his boss (Daniel J Travanti), who was played by Barbara Bosson, the wife of "Blues" executive producer Steve Bochco. Spano was back with Bochco starting in 1995 as Ray Velachek, a private investigator working for Teddy Hoffman (Daniel Benzali) on the low-rated, but highly regarded ABC series "Murder One."

Highest rated movies

96% Apollo 13 95% American Graffiti 77% Primal Fear
68% Hollywoodland
67% A Question of Faith
60% Hart's War
14% Roadie
2% Texas Rangers

Photos

NCIS, Melinda McGraw (L), Juliette Angelo (C), Joe Spano (R), 'Devil's Triad', Season 11, Ep. #10, 12/10/2013, ©CBS NCIS, Michael Weatherly (L), Sean Murray (C), Joe Spano (R), 'Crescent City - Part I', Season 11, Ep. #18, 03/25/2014, ©CBS NCIS, Michael Weatherly (L), Sean Murray (C), Joe Spano (R), 'Crescent City - Part I', Season 11, Ep. #18, 03/25/2014, ©CBS Inside the Real NCIS, Mark Harmon (L), Joe Spano (C), Melinda McGraw (R), 'Season 1', ©CBS NCIS, Mark Harmon (L), Joe Spano (C), Melinda McGraw (R), 'Devil's Triangle', Season 9, Ep. #7, 11/01/2011, ©CBS TERMINAL CHOICE, Joe Spano, (standing, left), 1985, ©Almi Pictures NCIS, Joe Spano (L), Mark Harmon (R), 'Return to Sender', Season 13, Ep. #21, 04/19/2016, ©KSITE NCIS, Joe Spano (L), Rocky Carroll (R), 'Homefront', Season 13, Ep. #22, 05/03/2016, ©KSITE NCIS, Cote De Pablo (L), Michael Weatherly (C), Joe Spano (R), 'Extreme Prejudice', Season 10, Ep. #1, 09/25/2012, ©CBS NCIS, Pauley Perrette (L), Mark Harmon (C), Joe Spano (R), 'Devil's Trifecta', Season 10, Ep. #9, 12/11/2012, ©CBS NCIS, Joe Spano (L), Mark Harmon (R), 'Devil's Trifecta', Season 10, Ep. #9, 12/11/2012, ©CBS NCIS, from left: Melinda McGraw, Cote De Pablo, Mark Harmon, Joe Spano, 09/23/2003, ©CBS NCIS, Joe Spano (L), Sean Murray (C), Emily Wickersham (R), 'React', Season 13, Ep. #15, 02/16/2016, ©KSITE NCIS, from left: Michael Weatherly, Mark Harmon, Joe Spano, Sean Murray, 'Devil's Triad', Season 11, Ep. #10, 12/10/2013, ©CBS Inside the Real NCIS, Michael Weatherly (L), Sean Murray (C), Joe Spano (R), 05/30/2006, ©CBS NCIS, Mark Harmon (L), Joe Spano (C), Melinda McGraw (R), 'Devil's Triangle', Season 9, Ep. #7, 11/01/2011, ©CBS Supergirl, Joe Spano, ©KSITE NCIS, Mark Harmon (L), Joe Spano (R), 09/23/2003, ©CBS NCIS, Joe Spano, 09/23/2003, ©CBS NCIS, Mark Harmon (L), Joe Spano (R), 09/23/2003, ©CBS
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
68% 48% Hollywoodland Howard Strickling (Character) $14.4M 2006
60% 48% Hart's War Col. J.M. Lange (Character) $19.1M 2002
2% 29% Texas Rangers Mr. Dunnison (Character) $623.4K 2001
No Score Yet 18% Ticker Captain Spano (Character) - 2001
67% 40% A Question of Faith Duncan (Character) $15.0K 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Blessed Art Thou Duncan (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet ATF Senator at Hearing (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet 46% Logan's War: Bound by Honor Special Agent John Downing (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet In Quiet Night Gold (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 83% A Call to Remember Dr. Green (Character) - 1997
77% 89% Primal Fear Capt. Abel Stenner (Character) $56.1M 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Her Costly Affair Carl Weston (Character) - 1996
96% 87% Apollo 13 NASA Director (Character) $173.8M 1995
No Score Yet 71% Flood Unknown (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children? Richard Koons (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fever Junkman (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet 50% For the Very First Time Mr. Allen (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Summer My Father Grew Up Louis (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet 53% The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake Chad Spaulding (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cast the First Stone Bill Spencer (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Disaster at Silo 7 Sgt. Swofford (Character) - 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Deep Dark Secrets Eric Lloyd (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet 38% Brotherhood of Justice Bob Grootemat (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Terminal Choice Dr. Frank Holt (Character) - 1985
14% 57% Roadie Ace (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 100% Northern Lights John Sorensen (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet 38% Warlock Moon John Devers (Character) - 1973
95% 84% American Graffiti Vic (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet 38% One Is a Lonely Number Earl of Kent (Character) - 1972

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 83% NCIS Tobias "T.C." Fornell (Guest Star) 2003-2022
72% 79% Suits: Jessica Pearson Unknown (Guest Star) 2019
No Score Yet 62% NCIS: New Orleans Unknown (Guest Star) 2014
No Score Yet 89% The Mentalist Unknown (Guest Star) 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet In Plain Sight Gabe Andrews / Gabe Marion (Guest Star) 2010
52% 50% Shark Unknown (Guest Star) 2008
23% No Score Yet Standoff Unknown (Guest Star) 2006
83% 85% The Closer Dr. Rose (Guest Star) 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet Eyes Unknown (Guest Star) 2005
No Score Yet No Score Yet L.A. Dragnet Unknown (Guest Star) 2004
83% 93% NYPD Blue Det. John Clark Sr. (Guest Star) 2001-2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Invisible Man Unknown (Guest Star) 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet Touched by an Angel Unknown (Guest Star) 1999
30% No Score Yet Mercy Point Unknown (Guest Star) 1998-1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nash Bridges Unknown (Guest Star) 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet L.A. Doctors Unknown (Guest Star) 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet JAG Unknown (Guest Star) 1998
No Score Yet 80% From the Earth to the Moon George Mueller (Character) 1998
88% No Score Yet Michael Hayes Unknown (Guest Star) 1998
74% 85% The X-Files Mike Millar (Guest Star) 1997
91% 60% Murder One Unknown (Guest Star) 1995-1996
0% No Score Yet Amazing Grace Detective Dominick Corso (Character) 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mission: Impossible Unknown (Guest Star) 1989
97% 82% Hill Street Blues Henry Goldblume (Character) 1981-1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trapper John, M.D. Unknown (Guest Star) 1979