Actor Robert Costanzo is generally typecast an urban Italian-American, prone to mouthing such lines as "You gotta problem with that?" Costanzo began popping up with regularity in such films as Saturday Night Fever in the late '70s. The first of his many TV-series stints was as plumber Vincent Pizo, the blue-collar father of Travolta clone Joe Piza (Paul Regina), in 1978's Joe and Valerie. He retained his man-of-the-people veneer as maintenance engineer Hank Sabatino in the weekly series Checking In (1980), Lt. V.T. Krantz in the 1990 TVer Glory Days, and the voice of Detective Bullock in Warner Bros.' Batman: The Animated Series (1992). In 1995, Robert Costanzo joined the cast of television's NYPD Blue as Detective Giardella.
Robert Costanzo
Active - 1975 - 2022 |
Born - Oct 20, 1942 in New York, New York, United States |
Genres - Comedy, Drama, Children's/Family
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- His first role was an uncredited part in Dog Day Afternoon (1975).
- Played softball in the late 1970s with actors Leo Rossi and Bruno Kirby.
- Has served as voice double for actor Danny DeVito.
- Has worked as a voice actor in cartoons and video games.
- Played the voice of Detective Harvey Bullock in multiple projects, including Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) movie, The Adventures of Batman & Robin (1994) videogame, Batman: The Animated Series TV series, Superman: The Animated Series TV series, The Batman Superman Movie: World's Finest (1997) movie, Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero (1998) video, The New Batman Adventures TV series, Static Shock TV series, Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman (2003) video, Batman: Arkham Origins video game.