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Joseph Sirola

Highest Rated: 83% The Super Cops (1974)

Lowest Rated: 81% Sunday (1997)

Birthday: Oct 7, 1929

Birthplace: Carteret, New Jersey, USA

Joe Sirola was a prolific television, commercial and voiceover actor whose show business career spanned seven decades. Born in Carteret, New Jersey, Sirola grew up in Manhattan. His parents emigrated from Croatia, and held blue collar jobs (his father was a carpenter while his mother ran a boarding house). Sirola had grand ambitions as a young man, but acting never figured into his long-term dreams. He received a business degree from Columbia in 1951, and soon after, after serving in the Korean War for 15-months, took a job as a sales promotion manager at the corporation Kimberly-Clark. Sirola quickly learned, however, that white collar world of corporate America was not for him. He began taking acting classes at Hunter College and quickly got the bug. From there on out, he would put all of his energy into making it as an actor. Sirola began appearing in Off-Broadway plays in the late 1950s, and by the early 60s he was appearing in bit parts on TV. Some of the more notable shows he appeared on during this period included "The Andy Griffith Show" (CBS, 1960-68), "Gunsmoke" (CBS, 1955-1975), and "Perry Mason" (CBS, 1957-1966). The 1960s was also the decade that Sirola took his first job as a voiceover actor. His work in this field proved so successful that by the 1970s Sirola was arguably one of the most in-demand voiceover actors in the country, pitching everything from Boar's Head meats to Hertz rental cars. Sirola's acting output never slowed in the decades that followed. In addition to his voiceover work, commercial appearances and television roles, he also made it a point to return to one of his first loves later in life, the stage, albeit this time as a producer. Sirola was a producer on the Broadway musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," which took home a 2014 Tony Award for Best Musical. In 2016 also produced the Off Broadway biographical musical "Cagney," about the Hollywood icon James Cagney. Sirola actually appeared alongside Cagney in 1986's "Terrible Joe Moran," which would prove to be Cagney's final film role. After a long and prolific career in show business, Sirola passed away on February 10, 2019 from respiratory failure. He was 89.

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Highest rated movies

83% 65% The Super Cops
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81% 74% Sunday
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Hail to the Chief
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Hail
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Hawaii Five-0: F.O.B. Honolulu
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Cry Rape!
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Visions...
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High Risk
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9% Love Is a Gun
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20% Chuka
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
81% 74% Sunday Joe Subalowsky (Character) $436.4K 1997
No Score Yet 9% Love Is a Gun Al Kinder (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wolf Sal Wolf (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet High Risk Guthrie (Character) - 1976
83% 65% The Super Cops O'Shaughnessy (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet 6% Seizure Charlie Hughes (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cry Rape! Det. Sloane (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hail to the Chief Reverend Jimmy Williams (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hail Rev. Jimmy Williams (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Visions... George Simpson (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hawaii Five-0: F.O.B. Honolulu Jonathan Kay (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet 20% Chuka Jake Baldwin (Character) - 1967

TV

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Diagnosis Murder Unknown (Guest Star) 2001
68% No Score Yet Spin City Unknown (Guest Star) 1999
83% 95% NYPD Blue Rooster Rawlins (Guest Star) 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Civil Wars Judge Enzo Beltratti (Guest Star) 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Simon & Simon Matthew Haskell (Guest Star) 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Charlie's Angels Unknown (Guest Star) 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rockford Files Joseph Minette (Guest Star) 1979-1980
100% 82% Wonder Woman Unknown (Guest Star) 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mannix Harry (Guest Star) 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rhoda Unknown (Guest Star) 1974
100% 84% Kolchak: The Night Stalker Unknown (Guest Star) 1974
100% No Score Yet The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Unknown (Guest Star) 1966-1967
No Score Yet 84% Get Smart Unknown (Guest Star) 1965-1966
No Score Yet 83% The Green Hornet Unknown (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mr. Novak Unknown (Guest Star) 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gunsmoke Eddie (Guest Star) 1963-1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Combat! Unknown (Guest Star) 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Perry Mason Bill Sheridan (Guest Star) 1962-1963
No Score Yet 88% The Andy Griffith Show Freddy Fleet (Guest Star) 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Untouchables Unknown (Guest Star) 1962