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Joseph Campanella
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Actor Joseph Campanella's father, a Sicilian immigrant, was an early member of the American Federation of Musicians; perhaps as a result, the younger Campanella remained active in liberal "underdog" political causes all his life. At eighteen, Campanella became one of the youngest-ever skippers in the wartime navy. He went on to attend Columbia University, then began his acting career on the New York stage and in TV soap operas. Over the next three decades he would portray Joe Turino on The Guiding Light, Alec Fielding on "The Doctors", Dr. Ted Steffen on the nighttime TV serial "The Doctors and the Nurses" and Senator Harper Devereaux on "Days of Our Lives". Additional TV assignments for Campanella included the role of Mike Connors' boss on the first season (1967-68) of Mannix; attorney Brian Darrell on four seasons (1969-73) of The Bold Ones; and Hutch Corrigan on the 1985-86 season of The Colbys.
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Episode description: Joseph Campanella narrates a journey down the Colorado River, starting at its headwaters in Rocky Mountain National Park. The river flows through Utah's Westwater Canyon; Canyonlands, Arches, Capitol Reef, and Zion national parks; and the fragile beauty and rapids of the Grand Canyon before crossing into Mexico.
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Synopsis: The FBI wants to shut down a luxurious minimum-security prison, so a high-placed official (Joseph Campanella) sends an undercover agent (Lance Kinsey) to root out any sign of crime. ~ John Bush, All Movie GuideRead More
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Actor Frank Campanella's physical form almost single-handedly defined his Hollywood typecasting. A 6' 5" barrel-chested Italian with a great, hulking presence and memorably stark facial features, Campanella excelled as a character player, almost invariably appearing as toughs and heavies. Born to a piano builder father who played in the orchestras of Eddie Cantor, Jimmy Durante, and Al Jolson, Campanella studied music exhaustively as a young man, and trained as a concert pianist, but discovered a rivaling passion for drama and entered Manhattan College as an acting major. Campanella's career as an actor began somewhat uncharacteristically, on a light and jovial note, by playing Mook the Moon Man during the first season of the Dumont network's infamous and much-loved kiddie show Captain Video and his Video Rangers (1949-1954). One- and two-episode stints on many American television programs followed for Campanella, most on themes of crime and law enforcement, including Inside Detective (1952), The Man Behind the Badge (1954), Danger (1954), and episodes of the anthology series Playwrights '56 (1956), Studio One (1956), and Suspicion (1957) that called for gritty, thuggish, urban types. During the 1960s, Campanella sought out the same kinds roles in feature films -- a path he pursued for several decades.
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Born in New York on March 12, 1919, Mr. Campanella enrolled at Manhattan College as a drama major. During World War II, he worked as a civilian interpreter, deciphering Italian and Sicilian dialects for the U.S. government.
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In early 1967, Campanella joined the start-up of the COMSAT Laboratories where he rose to the position of Vice President and Chief Scientist. At first major accomplishment was the development of the adaptive echo canceller which is now used worldwide in all modern telephone systems. He next led a team to develop the first digital speech interpolation systems which, by filling in the pauses in two-way conversation, increased the capacity of a telephone circuit up to 2.5 times without impairing the quality of service. He pioneered development of the 120 Mbit/sec time division multiple access (TDMA) systems now extensively used on geostationary orbit satellites of the Intelsat System for non-satellite-switched and for satellite-switched multi beam operation. He ... designed the ground/space network control system for NASA’s beam hopping Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS).
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