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Name
  
Joseph Bova

Role
  
Television actor

Spouse
  
Lee Lawson (m. ?–2006)


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Born
  
May 25, 1924
Cleveland, Ohio

Died
  
March 12, 2006, Englewood, New Jersey, United States

Movies
  
Serpico, Pretty Poison, Morgan Stewart's Coming

Joseph Bova (May 25, 1924 – March 12, 2006) worked in early television, having a children's show on WABC-TV in New York (following Bob Keeshan who had left for CBS as Captain Kangaroo). He played Prince Dauntless in Once Upon A Mattress.

Bova was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Mary (née Catalano) and Anthony Bova. He died of emphysema at the Actor's Fund retirement home in Englewood, New Jersey. He was 81 years old.

References

Joseph Bova Wikipedia