Born Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu Jr. in New York City on April 28, 1949, Bruno Kirby started out as a television actor before breaking into film and landing a high-profile role in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II (1974). He portrayed a limo driver in This Is Spinal Tap (1984) and an Army officer in Good Morning, Vietnam (1987).But he's best known for playing Billy Crystal's energetic sidekick -- twice -- in When Harry Met Sally (1989) and City Slickers (1991), high-grossing films that endeared him to audiences worldwide. Kirby stayed busy throughout the 1990s, appearing in The Freshman (1990), The Basketball Diaries (1995), Sleepers (1996) and Donnie Brasco (1997) before turning to occasional television work in the new millennium in "Homicide: Life on the Street" and the HBO series "Entourage."
Kirby died on Aug. 14, 2006, at age 57 from complications due to leukemia.
PlayedEight years ago, a heist went south, and professional thief Ray Burns (Mick Rossi) was the only one to go to jail. Now that he's done his time, however, he's ready to settle the score -- turning his former partners into targets, one by one. Filmmaker Sean Stanek directs Gabriel Byrne, Val Kilmer,... Read More
The Harrad ExperimentSeveral of the steamiest scenes -- most notably a full-frontal view of a young Don Johnson -- have been edited out of this cleaned-up version of the 1973 film about an experimental college that encourages its students to cram when it comes to sex. James Whitmore and Tippi Hedren co-star as the... Read More
Played (2006) | R | |
One Eyed King (2001) | R | |
PG-13 | ||
A Slipping Down Life (1999) | R | |
R | ||
Donnie Brasco (1997) | UR | |
Sleepers (1996) | R | |
The Basketball Diaries (1995) | R | |
Homicide: Season 3 (1994) | TV-14 | |
TV-14 | ||
NR | ||
City Slickers (1991) | PG-13 | |
The Freshman (1990) | PG | |
When Harry Met Sally (1989) | R | |
We're No Angels (1989) | PG-13 | |
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) | R | |
Tin Men (1987) | R | |
NR | ||
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) | R | |
Birdy (1984) | R | |
Modern Romance (1981) | R | |
Where the Buffalo Roam (1980) | R | |
Fame (1980) | R | |
The Godfather: Part II (1974) | R | |
The Harrad Experiment (1973) | R | |
