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Bruno Kirby
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Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
Actor. (b. Apr. 28, 1949, New York City.) Widely acclaimed as the womanizing sporting-goods salesman in City Slickers (1991), this youthfullooking, high-voiced supporting player currently enjoys greater popularity-and name recognition-than at any other time during his two-decade-old career. Often cast as a cranky straight man or quintessential New York character, Kirby first appealed to audiences while a regular on the 1972 TV sitcom "The Super." The show was created by Rob Reiner, who would later cast Kirby for a hilarious cameo (as the limo driver) in his directorial debut, This Is Spinal Tap (1984), and later still for a large role in his EB> (1989). After costarring in the sexual-freedom drama The Harrad Experiment (1973, which also featured Don Johnson), Kirby landed a plum role as the young Clemenza, opposite Robert De Niro's young Corleone, in Francis Coppola's The Godfather, Part II (1974). Where the Buffalo Roam (1980) found him playing a thinly disguised "Rolling Stone" editor Jann Wenner to Bill Murray's gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Kirby's other memorable roles include the uptight Army radio-station honcho in Barry Levinson's Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) who knows in his heart that he's funny, and mobster Marlon Brando's gofer in The Freshman (1990). In some of his earlier roles, he was credited as B. Kirby, Jr. His father is actor Bruce Kirby. |  |
