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person_profile-Sal Viscuso

Sal Viscuso Age: 76

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Sal Viscuso

Date of Birth:

Oct 05, 1948

Country of birth:

USA

Biography of

Sal Viscuso

    The dedication of Sal Viscuso to the craft of acting can be dated to a singular evening in 1967. A college freshman, he happened upon a teleplay of Ronald Ribman's CBS Playhouse: The Final War of Olly Winter (1967) and was so inspired by Ivan Dixon's Emmy-winning rendition of the title role that he entered the drama department the very next day, later explaining, "I felt that there I had found my family." He earned his BA from the University of California at Davis, then went on to study with Olympia Dukakis at NYU School of the Arts, from which he graduated with an MFA.

    Opportunities presented themselves rapidly, and Sal made his film debut in the classic The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974). An introduction to Burt Metcalfe, associate producer of the iconic series M*A*S*H (1972), led to his move to Los Angeles, and soon Sal was a regular on NBC's sitcom The Montefuscos (1975). He was an off-screen loudspeaker announcer (as well as various other characters) on M*A*S*H (1972); appeared in Gene Wilder's homage to 1920's Hollywood, The World's Greatest Lover (1977); improvised in Robert Altman's Three Women (1977); and played multiple parts on the beloved Barney Miller (1975) (one of which was written especially for him by the show's creator, Danny Arnold).

    He was also to feature in what TIME magazine has rated as one of the "Top 100 TV shows of all time," Susan Harris's Soap (1977). His vocationally challenged Father Timothy Flotsky (and the show's depiction of one of the first openly gay characters on network television), created instant controversy that attracted 19 million viewers to the series premiere. Shortly thereafter, Sal commenced his professional association with the Bancroft/Brooks combine of talent, first appearing in Anne Bancroft's Fatso (1980), and then in Mel Brooks' Spaceballs (1987), about which he has remarked, "I continue to get more attention from that project than from anything I've ever done!"

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Filmography of

Sal Viscuso

Found 19 Movies in total

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile

Judge ( Actor )

... 2022

Hollywood Seagull

Dr. Don Dorn ( Actor )

... 2013

The Cure for Boredom

Joey ( Actor )

... 2001

When Billie Beat Bobby

Sports Writer Mike ( Actor )

... 2001

The Amati Girls

Father Dedice ( Actor )

... 2001

Pinocchio's Revenge

Jail Guard ( Actor )

... 1996

The Dentist

Matthew Zeigler ( Actor )

... 1996

Kicking and Screaming

Bar Teacher ( Actor )

... 1995

... 1995

14 Going on 30

Mr. Lloyd ( Actor )

... 1988

Spaceballs

Radio Operator ( Actor )

... 1987

Jake Speed

News stand Attendant ( Actor )

... 1986

This Wife for Hire

Paul Bellini ( Actor )

... 1985

Max Dugan Returns

Coach Roy ( Actor )

... 1983

... 1982

Fatso

Vito ( Actor )

... 1980

... 1978

The World's Greatest Lover

Assistant Director ( Actor )

... 1977

... 1974