Ben Piazza
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Birth Place
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Born
July 30, 1934
Died
September 07, 1991
Cause of Death
Cancer
Biography
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Reliable, fair-haired stage actor, noted for his starring performances in Edward Albee's "American Dream" and "The Zoo Story" in the early 1960s. Piazza made his film debut in Sidney Furie's "A Dangerous Age" (1957) and portrayed studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck in "Guilty by Suspicion" (1991). Piazza also wrote plays and a novel, "The Exact and Very Strange Truth," which was published in 1...
Filmography
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Never Forget
(1991)
Guilty By Suspicion
(1991)
Clean & Sober
(1988)
Consenting Adult
(1985)
Dr Nark Waldo
Mask
(1985)
Waltz Across Texas
(1983)
Bill
Family & Companions
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Dolores Dorn-Heft
Wife
Divorced.
Wayne Tripp
Companion
Bibliography
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"The Exact and Very Strange Truth"
Ben Piazza (1964)
"Khaki Blue"
Ben Piazza
Biography
Reliable, fair-haired stage actor, noted for his starring performances in Edward Albee's "American Dream" and "The Zoo Story" in the early 1960s. Piazza made his film debut in Sidney Furie's "A Dangerous Age" (1957) and portrayed studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck in "Guilty by Suspicion" (1991). Piazza also wrote plays and a novel, "The Exact and Very Strange Truth," which was published in 1964.
Filmography
Cast (Feature Film)
Never Forget
(1991)
Guilty By Suspicion
(1991)
Clean & Sober
(1988)
Consenting Adult
(1985)
Dr Nark Waldo
Mask
(1985)
Waltz Across Texas
(1983)
Bill
Grace Kelly
(1983)
John Steinbeck's "The Winter of Our Discontent"
(1983)
The Wall
(1982)
The Five Of Me
(1981)
A Matter of Life and Death
(1981)
Dr Laurie
The Blues Brothers
(1980)
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
(1980)
Dr John Spencer
The Children of An Lac
(1980)
The Last Song
(1980)
Nightwing
(1979)
When Every Day Was the Fourth of July
(1978)
Herman Gasser
I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
(1977)
Kill Me If You Can
(1977)
The Bad News Bears
(1976)
Fear on Trial
(1975)
Fer-De-Lance
(1974)
Lieutenant Whitehead
The Candy Snatchers
(1973)
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
(1970)
Jesse
No Exit
(1962)
Camarero
The Hanging Tree
(1959)
Rune
Cast (Special)
The Bakery
(1990)
Blind Tom: The Story of Thomas Bethune
(1987)
The Circle Family
(1982)
Adrian Tweed; The Hotel Owner Seeking To Buy Hearst Out
Bender
(1979)
Cast (TV Mini-Series)
Billionaire Boys Club
(1987)
Mr Cody
The Winds of War
(1983)
The Critical List
(1978)
Dr Henry De Jong
Life Events
1952
Stage debut, "Othello", at the Theatre Intime in Princeton NJ
1957
Film debut, "A Dangerous Age" (director, Sidney J. Furie)
1958
Broadway debut in "Winesburg, Ohio"
1961
Played "Young Man" in Edward Albee's "The American Dream" at the York Playhouse, later (1962) in repertory with Albee's "The Zoo Story" at the Cherry Lane Theatre, New York
1965
Played Dr. Mike Rogers on "Ben Casey" TV series
1969
Wrote plays "Lime Green" and "Khaki Blue", performed at the Provincetown Playhouse, NY
1991
Last TV acting role in "Never Forget" (shown on TNT)
Videos
Movie Clip
Trailer
Family
Charles Piazza
Father
Elfreida Piazza
Mother
Companions
Dolores Dorn-Heft
Wife
Divorced.
Wayne Tripp
Companion
Bibliography
"The Exact and Very Strange Truth"
Ben Piazza (1964)
"Khaki Blue"
Ben Piazza
