Jay Novello (August 22, 1904 – September 2, 1982) was an American radio, film, and television character actor.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, as Michael Romano, of Italian descent, Novello began his career as a radio actor, having played Jack Packard on the Hollywood version of I Love a Mystery for a brief period in the middle 1940s. He usually put his suave, cultured voice and dexterity at accents to use in supporting roles, often of an ethnic nature. He was heard regularly on Rocky Jordan, (as Cairo police captain Lt. Sam Sabaaya), the radio version of The Lone Wolf (as Jamison the butler), and the long-running serial One Man's Family (as Judge Glenn Hunter). He was also heard on Escape, Crime Classics, Lux Radio Theater, Suspense, and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, among others.
In film, Novello alternated between pompous or fussy professionals and assorted ethnic roles, often as Italian or Hispanic characters. One of his earliest and more familiar film appearances is in the 1945 Laurel and Hardy comedy The Bullfighters, in which Novello plays a Latin restaurateur. Though prolific in the movies, Novello was limited mostly to bits in minor films, one of his more noteworthy assignments being the officious Spanish consul in Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles.
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Novello, Jay Filmography
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1977, role: actor , character name: Captain Ruiz
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1969, role: actor , character name: Miguel
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1967, role: actor , character name: Carlos
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1966, role: actor , character name: Mayor Romano
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1966, role: actor , character name: Heinrick
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1965, role: actor , character name: Rene, French Barrister
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1965, role: actor , character name: Father Gonzales
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1965, role: actor , character name: Zacha
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1965, role: actor
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1965, role: actor , character name: Janitor
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1963, role: actor , character name: Mooseghian
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1962, role: actor , character name: Hassan
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1961, role: actor , character name: Xandros the Greek Slave
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1961, role: actor , character name: Cortego
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1960, role: actor , character name: Papa Montalvo
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1960, role: actor , character name: Costa
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1959, role: actor , character name: Juan Greco
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1959, role: actor , character name: Diego Casas
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1958, role: actor , character name: Rene Valentin
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1958, role: actor , character name: Voice
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1957, role: actor , character name: Ballinger
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1956, role: actor , character name: Insp. Joao Casimiro Fonseca
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1956, role: actor , character name: Tupi
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1955, role: actor , character name: Basim
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1955, role: actor , character name: Merchant
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1955, role: actor , character name: Jiddah
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1954, role: actor , character name: Dr. Otto Hessler
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1954, role: actor , character name: Damji
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1954, role: actor , character name: Frank Prentiss
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1954, role: actor , character name: René Garonne
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1953, role: actor , character name: Andre
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1953, role: actor , character name: Gujar, Maya's steward
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1953, role: actor , character name: Tiro
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1953, role: actor , character name: Sinan
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1952, role: actor , character name: Pete
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1952, role: actor , character name: Egyptian
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1952, role: actor , character name: Felipe Rojas
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1952, role: actor , character name: António Abóbora dos Santos
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1952, role: actor , character name: Judge Crain
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1952, role: actor , character name: Herr Bauer
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1952, role: actor , character name: Trapper
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1951, role: actor , character name: Hamal
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1951, role: actor , character name: Espinosa
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1949, role: actor , character name: Gancellos
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1948, role: actor , character name: Taurk
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1948, role: actor , character name: Sea Captain of Pelicano
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1946, role: actor , character name: Luigi
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1945, role: actor , character name: Heinrick [Ch. 2]
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1945, role: actor , character name: Nick
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1945, role: actor , character name: Gomez
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June Flew
Johnny Viola
If you could ring the sky like a bell,
Even such a sound would never suffice.
If you could bang the world like a drum, it would only
show
It was hollow inside
And your love, it slips behind a little cloud, and your
eyes are veiled–
Is there a medical term for a heart that's been removed?
If you could wring the hours and the days
of all their/your life, I think you would find
that the lovely faces crash like a wave
upon a shore so frozen and white
and as love, it slips behind that little cloud,
the snow is like a feathery down,
when your heart has been removed
And as love departs your life, like silvery birds that
leave the coast,
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