Julie Bovasso is also remembered for her many supporting-roles in movies.

1992 Article 99
1990 My Blue Heaven
1990 Betsy's Wedding
1988 Hot Paint
1987 Moonstruck [also Dialogue Coach]
1986 A Time to Triumph
1986 Off Beat
1986 Wise Guys
1985 Doubletake
1983 Staying Alive
1983 Daniel
1982 The Verdict
1981 The Gentleman Bandit
1980 Willie and Phil
1980 King Crab
1978 Just Me and You
1978 The Last Tenant
1977 Saturday Night Fever
1970 Tell me that you love me, Junie Moon

Some movie posters associated with Julie:

[Dialect Coach/technical Advisor] for this film

TV roles of Julie Bovasso:

TV Episodes

"The Man in the Family" (1991) TV Series [Actress]
  "Cagney & Lacey" [Actress]
            - Video Verite (1987) TV Episode [Actress]
  "Miami Vice" [Actress]
            - Little Miss Dangerous (1986) TV Episode [Actress]
A Time to Triumph (1986) (TV) [Actress]

The Gentleman Bandit (1981) (TV) [Actress]
        ... aka The Bandit Priest
"Nurse" [Actress]
            - A Little Rain (1981) TV Episode [Actress]

Just Me and You (1978) (TV) [Actress]

"The Last Tenant", 1978 (TV movie debut)

"The Nurses" [Actress]
        ... aka The Doctors and the Nurses (USA: new title)
            - To All My Friends on Shore (1964) TV Episode [Actress]
"The United States Steel Hour" [Actress]
        ... aka The U.S. Steel Hour (USA: alternative title)
"The Defenders," Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., 1963.
- Man on the Mountain Top (1961) TV Episode [Actress]
   "Play of the Week" [Actress]
            - The Iceman Cometh: Part 2 (1960) TV Episode [Actress]
            - The Iceman Cometh: Part 1 (1960) TV Episode [Actress]
        The Iceman Cometh (1960) (TV) [Actress]
"From These Roots" (1958) TV Series [Actress]

Bernard X Bovasso, brother of Julie notes: Julie made live television history by walking off the set at camera time after a dispute with the director. A stand-in appeared on screen reading her part from a manuscript. My mother in Brooklyn watched the show every day at 3Pm with her lady friends. When Julie did not appear she was sure she may have died or had a serious accident. At the time no one had ever walked off live TV. For making such history Julie was banned from network TV and brought up on charges by the actors union. The event was featured the next day in the N.Y. Times. However, her TV hiatus turned her to focusing more on her own work and getting her plays produced Off Broadway. She of course missed the big bucks she was making. During the production Julie married "Dr. Buck" (Len Wayland) and they took a sumptuous Riverside Drive apartment with a grand terrace and a view of  the Hudson River. Julie and Len had become nationally famous. One time they came up to Provincetown, MA in Len's little red Jaguar for a visit to Lucy and myself. We had rented a studio in which to live for the summer and where I did my painting. Out to lunch one day in my favorite Portuguese fried clam place the waitress serving suddenly screamed "Rosey and Dr. Buck...!" and dropped her tray. The place was crowded and soon everyone was lined up for autographs. Soon after, however, Julie was becoming very restless in her marriage, no doubt because she missed doing her writing and stage work. The life of luxury and fame did not agree with her and the marriage soon broke up. She moved into a flat on the East side of Tompkins Square Park and there composed her play [?].

You might remember Tattoo from Fantasy Island - Hervé Villechaize. Before moving on to the silver-screen he studied acting with Julie, in NYC and was part of her acting company.

She also instructed or coached: John Travolta; Bet Midler; Stalone; and Cher for Moonstruck (where the actress won her Oscar). Jack Nicolson picked-up his Brooklyn Italian-American dialect with, Julie's help, in Pritzi's Honor.

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