Philip Michael Bosco (September 26, 1930 – December 3, 2018) was an American actor. He was known for his Tony Award-winning performance as Saunders in the 1989 Broadway production of Lend Me a Tenor, and for his starring roles in many movies like My Best Friend's Wedding, The Savages and The First Wives Club.

Filmography

• Prohibition — Reader (voice)
• 2010Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World — (voice)
• The National Parks: America's Best Idea
• 2009When the Evening Comes — Martin Corrado
• Damages — Hollis Nye
• 2007The Savages — Lenny Savage
• 2006Freedomland — Priest
• 2006The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays — Saunders (segment "Lend Me a Tenor")
• 2005Hitch — Mr. O'Brian
• 2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson — Other Voices (voice)
• 2003Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip — Other Voices (voice)
• 2002Abandon — Professor Jergensen
• Cyberchase — Zeus (voice)
• 2002Mark Twain — (voice)
• Mark Twain — Other Voices (voice)
• 2001Kate & Leopold — Otis
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Franklin Winthrop
• 2001No Ordinary Baby — Dr. Ed Walden
• 2000Borough of Kings — Uncle Chicky
• 2000Cupid & Cate — Dominic DeAngelo
• Ed — Alan Stevens
• 2000Shaft — Walter Wade Senior
• 2000Wonder Boys — Emily's Father
• 1999Bonanno: A Godfather's Story — Steve Maggadino Sr.
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Davis Langley, Joseph P. Terhune
• 1998Carriers — Colonel John O. Bailey
• 1998Twelfth Night — Malvolio
• 1997Critical Care — Dr. Hofstader
• 1997Deconstructing Harry — Professor Clark
• Liberty! — Benjamin Franklin
• 1997My Best Friend's Wedding — Walter Wallace
• Early Edition — Mike Killabrew
• Remember WENN — Palermo Racine
• Spin City — Randall Winston, Sr. (archive footage)
• 1996The First Wives Club — Uncle Carmine Morelli
• 1995It Takes Two — Vincenzo
• 1995Young at Heart — Patsy
• 1994Against the Wall — Oswald
• 1994Angie — Frank Scacciapensieri
• Baseball — (voice)
• 1994Janek: The Silent Betrayal — Chief Wycoff
• 1994Milk Money — Jerry
• 1994Nobody's Fool — Judge Flatt
• 1994Safe Passage — Mort
• 1994The Forget-Me-Not Murders — Chief
• TriBeCa
• 1992Diego Rivera: I Paint What I See — Bertram Wolfe
• 1992Lincoln — Frederick Seward (voice)
• 1992Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann — Narrator
• 1992Straight Talk — Gene Perlman
• 1991Coney Island — Narrator (voice)
• 1991F/X2 — Lt. Ray Silak, NYPD
• 1991Shadows and Fog — Mr. Paulsen
• 1991The Return of Eliot Ness — Art Malto
• 1991True Colors — Sen. Frank Steubens
• 1990Blue Steel — Frank Turner
• Law & Order — Defense Attorney Gordon Schell, Dobbs, Lee Jerrold
• 1990Murder in Black and White — Wycoff
• 1990Quick Change — Bus Driver
• The Civil War — Horace Greeley (voice)
• 1990The Crash of 1929 — Narrator
• 1989The Dream Team — O'Malley
• 1989The Luckiest Man in the World — Sam Posner
• 1989The Wilderness Idea: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the First Great Battle for Wilderness — Gifford Pinchot (Voice)
• American Experience — Narrator (voice)
• 1988Another Woman — Sam
• 1988Internal Affairs — John Wycoff
• 1988Working Girl — Oren Trask
• 19873 Men and a Baby — Det. Sgt. Melkowitz
• 1987Echoes in the Darkness — Judge Garb
• Echoes in the Darkness — Judge Garb
• Leg Work — Dawson
• 1987Read Between The Lines — Grandfather
• 1987Suspect — Paul Gray
• 1986Children of a Lesser God — Dr. Curtis Franklin
• 1986Liberty — Boss William Tweed
• 1986Rage of Angels: The Story Continues — Thomas Colfax
• Rage of Angels: The Story Continues — Thomas Colfax
• 1986The Money Pit — Curly
• 1985Flanagan — James Flanagan
• 1985Heaven Help Us — Brother Paul
• The Equalizer — Brian, Oscar
• 1984The Pope of Greenwich Village — Paulie's Father
• 1983Trading Places — Doctor
• American Playhouse — Gaetano Altobelli
• Nurse — Dr. Harry Wallenberg
• Great Performances — Father Coyne
• 1971Hogan's Goat — Father Coyne
• 1968A Lovely Way to Die — Fuller
• 1966An Enemy of the People
• NET Playhouse — Peter Stockmann
• You Are There
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Dominic DeAngelo

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 1997Moon Over Broadway — Self
• Reading Rainbow — Self - Narrator (voice)