Joe Regalbuto has been seen in films since 1982, when he played an investigative reporter in Costa-Gavras' Missing. Before his big-screen debut, Regalbuto played shifty Wall Street lawyer Elliot Streeter in the 1979 TV series The Associates. His other TV roles included Toomey, the CPA assistant to bumbling detective Tim Conway in Ace Crawford, Private Eye (1982), and Harry Fisher in Knots Landing (1985-86 series). Regalbuto also labored in what one journalist described as "relative obscurity" on the TV-movie circuit, playing such roles as William C. Sullivan in 1987's J. Edgar Hoover. In his most famous characterization, Joe Regalbuto travelled full circle from his Missing days, playing investigative reporter Frank Fontana on the TV sitcom Murphy Brown (1988- ).
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- Played Little League baseball.
- Was the class clown in high school.
- His father wanted him to be a lawyer or a banker so he would get a pension.
- In 1991, founded Pesto Productions Inc.
- Directed many episodes of the series Murphy Brown, which he also starred in.
- Has played the character of Frank Fontana in Murphy Brown, Ink and Family Guy.
- Was a spokesman for DirecTV.