Bruno Kirby - RIP

[pab]

Bruno Kirby - RIP#0

Posted: 8/15/06 at 10:39pm

"LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Bruno Kirby, a veteran character actor who co-starred in "When Harry Met Sally," "City Slickers" and many other films, has died at age 57, his wife said Tuesday."
Character actor Bruno Kirby, 57, dies

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[jimnysf]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#1

Posted: 8/15/06 at 10:42pm

Bruno Kirby on theatre.....


http://www.citypaper.net/articles/103196/article001.shtml

"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions" ------- "Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu" from "Can't Stop The Music" ----- "When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth" ------------ --------- "Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.

[StageManager2]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#2

Posted: 8/15/06 at 10:42pm

That's too bad. I was just thinkng about him because I saw that movie FLESH & BLOOD at my library.

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[FindingNamo]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#3

Posted: 8/15/06 at 10:43pm

He has perhaps the greatest credit of all time in his IMDB listing:

Cruising (1980) (uncredited) .... Man greasing up his fist in club

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Updated On: 8/15/06 at 10:43 PM

[erikaamato]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#4

Posted: 8/15/06 at 10:44pm

Oh, no! That's awful. I always enjoyed him in any film he was in.

RIP, Mr. Kirby.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#5

Posted: 8/15/06 at 10:46pm

What's with all of the great character actors dying this year? Chris Penn, Jack Warden, and now Bruno Kirby.

Ugh.

Here's to you, Bruno. Rest in peace...

[StageManager2]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#6

Posted: 8/15/06 at 10:46pm

Erika, you changed your picture. Is that you as Betty Schaefer?

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

[erikaamato]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#7

Posted: 8/15/06 at 10:51pm

Very brief threadjack to reply to StageManager2: Well, it's me backstage at Sunset Boulevard. I was just ensemble. I only read Betty during rehearsals.

EDITED TO ADD: Yay, When Harry Met Sally!
Updated On: 8/16/06 at 10:51 PM

[Jon]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#8

Posted: 8/15/06 at 10:55pm

I saw him Off-Broadway in BUNNY BUNNY - Alan Zweibel's play about his relationship with Gilda Radner. Kirby was terrific, as was Paula Cale, who played Gilda, and Alan Tudyk, who played about 15 different roles.

Kirby also replaced Kevin Spacey on Broadway in Lost in Yonkers.

[jimnysf]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#9

Posted: 8/15/06 at 10:57pm

From "The Harrad Experiment" with Don Johnson.

"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions" ------- "Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu" from "Can't Stop The Music" ----- "When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth" ------------ --------- "Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.

[suzycat]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#10

Posted: 8/15/06 at 11:01pm

so sad. I love him in When Harry Met Sally.

[blueroses]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#11

Posted: 8/15/06 at 11:13pm

How sad! I loved him in When Harry Met Sally (thinks of the hilarious wagon wheel coffee table scene), The Freshman and so many other things. May he rest in peace.

[SueleenGay]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#12

Posted: 8/15/06 at 11:30pm

Spinal Tap?
That is sad, he really had a wonderful personality and voice that just made you like him in anything.

By the way, Namo, is there a credit for "Guy in sling"?

PEACE.

[NYadgal]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#13

Posted: 8/15/06 at 11:37pm

Wow. SO young.

I'm very sorry to hear that news. I always enjoyed his performances.

"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."

[FindingNamo]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#14

Posted: 8/15/06 at 11:39pm

No such credit, Sueleen. What's weird is, I can vividly recall the glimpse of "guy greasing fist." And I mean in the movie "Cruising." I never knew it was B. Kirby Jr. as he was known on "Room 222."

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[SueleenGay]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#15

Posted: 8/15/06 at 11:44pm

Shoot, I auditioned for "man in sling". If only I had gotten the role I could have worked with Junior.

PEACE.

[peggyandvelma]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#16

Posted: 8/16/06 at 12:21am

I just saw this...and now I'm sad. I loved him in City Slickers and When Harry Met Sally. I love the wagon wheel coffee table scene, too. Anyone remember "baby fish mouth"?


Rest in peace, Bruno. We love you!

No one is alone.

[new_philosophy_girl]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#17

Posted: 8/16/06 at 12:41am

Man...this is sad news. May he rest in peace. I loved him in The Godfather Part 2...

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[DG]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#18

Posted: 8/16/06 at 3:49am

All I could think when I read this was, "Wow. So young."

And then I saw I wasn't the only one to think that.

[DayDreamer]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#19

Posted: 8/16/06 at 3:57am

wow... how sad. And yes... I too was thinking 'how young.'

Celebrate Life

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch

[best12bars]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#21

Posted: 8/16/06 at 9:04am

God, I remember first seeing him in the Disney film "Superdad" as a kid.

I loved it when he started a big career upswing in the '80s. Very talented and always memorable.

He will be missed.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[raulfan]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#22

Posted: 8/16/06 at 9:55am

I was so sad to hear this today. I really liked him.

My prayers to him and his family.

[wexy]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#23

Posted: 8/16/06 at 9:59am

Very sad news. R.I.P.
Always liked seeing him.

'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'

[erikaamato]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#24

Posted: 8/16/06 at 12:13pm

Bump

[erikaamato]

re: Bruno Kirby - RIP#25

Posted: 8/16/06 at 12:13pm

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