Careers this long are unusual: Dick Balduzzi is an American actor with credits spread across cinema, television and everything between. The role of Pvt. Fisher in 'Kelly's Heroes' is the one that keeps being brought up. Another entry worth naming is 'The Postman Always Rings Twice'. The bulk of the career has been spent in comedy. Very few actors keep finding work for 59 years.
Dick Balduzzi
91 years (Feb 9, 1928 – Jan 27, 2020)Alliance, USAAlliance, Ohio, USA
10 Movies · 29 Series
Careers this long are unusual: Dick Balduzzi is an American actor with credits spread across cinema, television and everything between. The role of Pvt. Fisher in 'Kelly's Heroes' is the one that keeps being brought up. Another entry worth naming is 'The Postman Always Rings Twice'. The bulk of the career has been spent in comedy. Very few actors keep finding work for 59 years.
Dick Balduzzi had one of those faces that kept him employed. He was never famous, but he worked pretty consistently from 1957 until retiring in 1990. Dick worked primarily in episode television but he made several movies as well: Pete 'n Tillie (as a party guest), Under The Yum Yum Tree, Cocaine & Blue Eyes (bartender), Coma (maintenance man), The Postman Always Rings Twice (sign man #1), Zorro, Carpool, Johnny Dangerously (as a prisoner), and Kelly's Heroes (as a private). He retired in 1990.
He was married since 1959 to Phyllis Jarzembski. They had one daughter, Judy, and four grandchildren. Dick Balduzzi died after a fall in his home. He was 91 years old.