Bruce Kirby (actor)
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Bruce Kirby (born Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu on April 24, 1928) is an American character actor.
Though he has been a working actor since the 1950s, Kirby is most familiar to Columbo fans as the gullible Sergeant Kramer. A notable recent appearance was as Pop Ryan, father of Officer John Ryan (played by Matt Dillon) in the 2004 film Crash.
He has appeared on television from Goodyear Television Playhouse in the 1950s to I Dream of Jeannie, The Nurses, The Defenders, Car 54, Where Are You?, and The Patty Duke Show in the 1960s to Bonanza, Ironside, Barney Miller and Alice in the 1970s to Remington Steele, Night Court, Matlock, Hill Street Blues, Lou Grant and Punky Brewster in the 1980s to The Golden Girls, L.A. Law, In the Heat of the Night, Murphy Brown, Murder, She Wrote, Chicago Hope, The Sopranos, The Agency and The West Wing in the 1990s.
His late son, Bruno Kirby, was also a character actor in both comedies and dramas.
