
Birthday:
10-01-1903
Deathday:
04-16-1975 (71 years)
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Ignazio "Nat" Curcuruto (October 1, 1903 – April 16, 1975), better known by his stage name Joe Kirk, was an American radio, film, and television actor who was best known for playing the role of Mr. Bacciagalupe on The Abbott and Costello Show. He was married to Lou Costello's sister Marie in real life.
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The Naughty Nineties
Act like Croupier
event1945 star_border 6.8
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In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
Act like Dr. Orvilla
event1953 star_border 5.5
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Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to Venus where they find a civilization made up entirely of women, men having been banished.
Little Giant
Act like Salesman
event1946 star_border 5.3
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Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.
Phantom Lady
Act like Sanders - Stage Manager (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 7
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A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
The Jackie Robinson Story
Act like Tony (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.4
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Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
Lost in Alaska
Act like Henchman
event1952 star_border 6
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After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover that the police mistakenly want them for murder.
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
Act like Flirtatious Pirate (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 5.9
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Two hapless waiters in a tavern on the Spanish Main play cupid between aristocratic Lady Jane and tavern co-worker Bruce Martindale, but the two bumpkins mix-up a love letter with Captain Kidd's treasure map of Skull Island, leading to them being kidnapped and taken off to the notorious pirate's island.
House of Frankenstein
Act like Schwartz (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 6
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Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
Act like Man at Costume Party in Fez
event1948 star_border 7.1
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Baggage handlers Bud and Lou accidentally stumble upon Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula and the Wolf Man.
Fort Algiers
Act like Luigi
event1953 star_border 5.5
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In northwest Africa, a tribal leader tries to stir up a rebellion against the ruling powers.
My Dear Secretary
Act like Process Server with Divorce Papers (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 5.9
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A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon disppointed, however, when he turns out to be an erratic, immature playboy. Opposites attract, of course, but not without sub-plots that touch on competitiveness within marriage and responsibility.
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Act like Brownstone Heavy 3
event1941 star_border 5.7
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Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
Impact
Act like Hotel Clerk
event1949 star_border 6.1
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After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
Spooks Run Wild
Act like Camp Counselor
event1941 star_border 4.8
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A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
Over My Dead Body
Act like Sailor
event1942
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Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.
Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
Act like Ghost of Napoleon
event1944 star_border 4
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A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Act like Clothing Store Clerk
event1956 star_border 6.9
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A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.
X Marks the Spot
Act like Dizzy's Fellow Henchman (as Joseph Kirk)
event1942 star_border 3.8
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A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his prime suspect is murdered as well, and he finds himself framed for the crime. As more witnesses get murdered, he finds himself on the run from both the police and former Prohibition violators who seem to have found a new racket.
The Abbott and Costello Show: Who's On First?
Act like Mr. Baccigaloupe (archive footage)
event2011 star_border 8
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Featuring the routines that made them comedy legends like “Who’s On First?,” and “The Lemon Bit,” this digitally restored and re-mastered “Best Of” collection includes six of the Abbott and Costello Show’s most beloved episodes.
Margin for Error
Act like Officer Solomon
event1943 star_border 5.7
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When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.
River Gang
Act like Gangster
event1945
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An orphan girl lives with apparently kind uncle who turns out to be a murderer.
Rio Rita
Act like Pet Shop Owner (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.8
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Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
Pardon My Sarong
Act like Henchman with Tabor (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.5
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A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.
Who Done It?
Act like Harry, 'Murder At Midnight' sound man
event1942 star_border 6.9
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Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
Here Come the Co-eds
Act like Honest Dan Murphy the Bookie
event1945 star_border 5.6
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Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College. Bixby's progressive dean offers Molly a scholarship. Molly accepts on the condition that Slats and Oliver come along too as campus caretakers. But the pompous Chairman threatens to foreclose on the school's mortgage if Molly isn't expelled. Together, the trio, with the help of some new friends, concocts a scheme to raise enough money to save the school. The plan involves a bet on the Bixby basketball team, which is playing in a game rated at 20 to 1 by the local bookie. But the bookie has other plans for their dough and hires a group of ringers to step in for the opponents. All is not lost, at least while Oliver has the chance to turn things around for his friends-one way or another.
Buck Privates Come Home
Act like Real Estate Salesman
event1947 star_border 6.3
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Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
The Noose Hangs High
Act like Gangster (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 6.8
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Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.
Adventures of Superman
Act like Gangster with Binoculars (uncredited) (1 ep.)
event1952 star_border 6.7
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Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!"
Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"
Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
How to Marry a Millionaire
(1 ep.)
event1957 star_border 6
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How to Marry a Millionaire is an American sitcom that aired in syndication from September 1957 to August 1959. The series is based on the 1953 film of the same name starring Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, and Lauren Bacall.
The series stars Lori Nelson, Merry Anders, and Barbara Eden. Lisa Gaye joined the cast in the second season after Lori Nelson left the series. How to Marry a Millionaire was the first series that Barbara Eden was featured in as a regular cast member. Eden would go on to play one of her more notable roles, "Jeannie" in the NBC sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. During the series' first season, Eden was billed third. After Lori Nelson left the series, Eden was billed first.
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