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![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Executive Producer, Actor Born: April 21, 1951 in Brooklyn, NY Biography:A graduate of the University of Dubuque, "Tony Danza" was busy with a profitable if not spectacular career as a boxer when he began tentatively moving into acting. His first important TV role was, appropriately, as erstwhile boxer Tony Banta on the popular sitcom "Taxi". During his "Taxi" years, Danza built up the screen image of the pugnacious, not overly bright lug with a golden heart. In 1984, Danza was cast as Tony Micelli, the widowed housekeeper of divorced career woman Angela Bower ("Judith Light"), on the weekly domestic comedy "Who's the Boss?" enjoying a popular eight-season run. Danza's first starring film role in "She's Out of Control" (1988), as the overprotective father of teenager "Ami Dolenz", was more or less an extension of his TV work; the actor demonstrated a wider range in the supporting role of a dying baseball player in the 1994 remake of "Angels in the Outfield". ~ Hal... Full Biography
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