Joe Spano

Joe Spano

Joseph Peter Spano is an American actor best known for his roles on Hill Street Blues and NCIS. He is also the original voice of Pasqually the Chef from Chuck E Cheese. Spano won an Emmy award in 1988 for Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series for a role he played in Midnight Caller.

About Joe Spano in brief

Summary Joe SpanoJoseph Peter Spano is an American actor best known for his roles as Lt. Henry Goldblume on Hill Street Blues, FBI Special Agent Tobias C. Fornell on NCIS, and as the original voice of Pasqually the Chef from Chuck E Cheese. Spano won an Emmy award in 1988 for Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series for a role he played in an episode of Midnight Caller. He has appeared in several feature films, including working alongside Tom Hanks in Apollo 13 and Richard Gere and Edward Norton in Primal Fear. He is a veteran stage actor on the east and west coasts. His credits are often confused with Australian actor Joseph Spano, but he is not related to him.

He was a member of the San Francisco improv group The Wing, and in college debuted as Paris in a production of Romeo and Juliet in 1967. In 1968, he helped found the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, appearing in its first production, and stayed with the company for 10 years. He moved to Hollywood in the late 1970s, landing guest spots on TV and bit roles in American Graffiti and The Enforcer. He played a seductive vampire in the cult musical Dracula: A Musical Nightmare in a small Los Angeles theatre. He also appeared in Brotherhood of Justice with Keanu Reeves and Kiefer Sutherland.