tevens screenwriter, playwright

*  30.12.1938, Brooklyn, NY

Education:     Brown University, Providence, RI (art history)

Character player of the 1970s and 80s, usually in comic roles; outstanding as the manic host of an old-time TV variety show in the hilarious MY FAVORITE YEAR (1982). Bologna writes for theater and TV with his wife, Renee Taylor; the duo co-adapted (from their own play) and co-directed the 1989 feature, IT HAD TO BE YOU (1989).

Filmografie Joseph Bologna

1970   LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS             screenwriter

1971   HONOR THY FATHER

1971   MADE FOR EACH OTHER                         screenwriter,

1973   COPS AND ROBBERS 

1974   MIXED COMPANY     

1976   THE BIG BUS 

1976   WOMAN OF THE YEAR        

1979   CHAPTER TWO        

1979   TORN BETWEEN TWO LOVERS       

1982   MY FAVORITE YEAR 

1983   ONE COOKS, THE OTHER DOESN'T 

1984   BLAME IT ON RIO    

1984   THE WOMAN IN RED 

1985   TRANSYLVANIA 6-5000      

1986   A TIME TO TRIUMPH

1987   NOT QUITE HUMAN  

1989   IT HAD TO BE YOU   tevens co-director, screenwriter— from play,

1989   PRIME TARGET        

1990   COUPE DE VILLE      

1990   THANKSGIVING DAY 

1991   ALLIGATOR II: THE MUTATION      

1991   AN INCONVENIENT WOMAN 

1992   CITIZEN COHN        

1992   JERSEY GIRLS