Most Recent Role: Funjl on Chowder
Alias Name(s): John Polito
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Birthday: 12-29-1950
Alias Name(s): John Polito
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Birthday: 12-29-1950
Most Recent Appearance
The Heavy Sleeper / The Moldy Touch
Thursday 3 April 2008 on Cartoon Network
The Heavy Sleeper : Mung falls asleep because of the blormed milk he made, and Chowder must wake him up before Truffles finds out. The Moldy Touch : Chowder receives the power turn anything he touches into mold. When Mung knew that Chowder got the moldy power, he comes to fight Chowder.
Jon Polito won the 2005 Maverick Tribute Award at the Cinequest San Jose Film Festival.
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Jon Polito was fired from Homicide: Life on the Street by producer Tom Fontana after Polito made disparaging remarks about the show in the media. The two patched things up so that Polito (and the character of Det. Steve Crosetti) could appear in the series-ending Homicide: Life Everlasting movie.
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Jon Polito has appeared in five films made by the Coen Brothers.
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Jon Polito: You can't act alone. Use the props, the setting, the crew around you, and of course your fellow actors. Acting is like a sporting match; a tennis game, but no one should win or lose. The game's the thing!
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Jon Polito: I'm at my best when I'm challenged. It's that simple. I think everybody is. I think that's where your mettle is proven.
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Jon Polito: (describing his character's fate on "Homicide") I asked Tom specifically—after we had our words and he was angry at me, I said, "Look, I don’t care how angry you are with me, please don’t have me commit suicide or anything negative with this character" because I knew the real policeman who I was playing. But he instead chose to have me commit suicide in a ridiculous way, I thought. So I never agreed with my death, and I never watched the show until they called me years later, and we had sort of patched it up and he said "You’ll come back as a ghost," which I did.
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Jon Polito: (on typecasting) You know, it’s a funny thing. I don’t have a problem - first of all, my theory is there are only gangsters and cops. There are also fathers, but they are really boring unless some tragedy happens to the father.
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Other Appearances
| Star | |
|---|---|
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Crime Story
Phil Bartoli (1986-1987) |
Gone But Not Forgotten
Sam Oberhurst |
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Homicide: Life on the Street
Steve Crosetti (Seasons 1-2, TVM) |
Ohara
Capt. Ross (1987) |
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The Chronicle
Donald Stern |
The Gangster Chronicles
Thomas "Three Finger Brown" Lucchese |
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10-8
The Wild and the Innocent Enzo Fontana |
Avatar: The Last Airbender
The Siege of the North (1) Chief Arnook |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender
The Siege of the North (2) Chief Arnook |
Avatar: The Last Airbender
The Waterbending Master Chief Arnook |
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Batman Beyond
Betrayal Major |
Becker
Piece Talks Leonard Nagle |
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