Born: September 12, 1956

C.C.N.Y. graduate Peter Scolari was endowed with an instantly likeable personality and a gift for the fast quip. As such, he was ideally cast on the 1980 TV sitcom Bosom_Buddies as Henry Desmond, one of two male "roomies" forced by circumstance to disguise themselves as women (we'll get to Scolari's co-star in a moment). On either side of Bosom_Buddies' two-season run, Scolari was featured on the short-lived sitcoms Goodtime_Girls (1984) and Baby_Makes_Five (1983). He enjoyed a longer run in the role of trendy TV producer Michael Harris on Newhart, and was engaging and convincing as a prejudice-busting high school choral director in the Disney TV movie Perfect_Harmony (1991). It is one of the inequities of show business that so ingratiating a performer as Peter Scolari was starring in such direct-to-video pond scum as Ticks (1994) and co-starring in such Hall-of-Obscurity theatrical films as Camp_Nowhere (1994), while his old Bosom_Buddies co-star, Tom Hanks, was collecting all manner of industry awards for such films as Philadelphia and Forrest_Gump, among others. Hal Erickson, Rovi

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