Joseph Sirola

Joseph Anthony Sirola (October 7, 1929 – February 10, 2019) was an American commercial, film, television, theatre actor and theatre producer.

Life and career Sirola was born in Carteret, New Jersey to Croatian parents Anton, a carpenter and Ana (née Dubrovich), who ran a boardinghouse at 363 West 19th Street in Chelsea. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1947 and earned a Bachelor of Science in Business from Columbia University in 1951. He then worked as a sales promotion manager at the multinational personal care corporation Kimberly-Clark, at the age of 28. He served in the U.S. Military for the Korean War before getting his career in acting.

Sirola began his acting career in 1959, appearing as Peter Nino in the television soap opera The Brighter Day. In 1960 he co-starred in the Broadway play, The Unsinkable Molly Brown. Sirola co-starred in another Broadway play, Golden Rainbow, in 1968. Chuka, Get Smart, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Perry Mason, Strange Bedfellows and The Greatest Story Ever Told. His work on television commercials, for which he won over 20 Clio Awards, led to The Wall Street Journal nicknaming him “The King of the Voice-Overs” in 1970. and Wolf. Sirola continued in voice-over work for television commercials including ads for Ford, Mobil, Wendy's and Nyquil. Sirola retired in 2015.

Death Sirola died on February 10, 2019, of complications from respiratory failure at a hospital in Manhattan; he was 89.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes1959 Happy Anniversary Waiter at El Morocco Uncredited1974 The Magician Owner of Magic Castle nightclub Dominic 1965 Strange Bedfellows Petracini 1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told Dumah 1967 Chuka Jake Baldwin 1968 Hang 'Em High Reno, Cooper Hanging Party 1969 Three 1970 The Delta Factor Sal Dekker 1972 Hail Rev. Jimmy Williams 1974 The Super Cops Police Lt. O'Shaughnessy 1974 Seizure Charlie Hughes 1994 Love Is a Gun Al Kinder 1997 Sunday Joe Subalowsky