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name: "Joe Negri"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joe-negri"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "10 June 1926"
died: "30 May 2026"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T05:28:30.866849+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Joe Negri

Actor. Born 10 June 1926 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Died 30 May 2026.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 10 June 1926, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Died:** 30 May 2026
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6211524, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0624458/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1211905

## Biography

Joe Negri (1926–2026) was an American jazz guitarist, educator and actor. He began performing on radio at the age of three and worked as a professional musician from his teens, later teaching jazz guitar for 49 years at the University of Pittsburgh and for 46 years at Duquesne University and Carnegie Mellon University.

Negri appeared as Handyman Negri (and occasionally as himself, owner of Negri's Music Shop) in the Neighbourhood of Make-Believe segments of *Mister Rogers' Neighborhood* from 1968 until 2001, appearing in more than 300 episodes. He was interviewed as himself in the 2018 documentary *Won't You Be My Neighbor?*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, usatoday.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Won't You Be My Neighbor?* (2018), Fi1m 80, as Self - Actor / Handyman Negri — [page](https://film.one/film/wont-you-be-my-neighbor.md)

## Also known for

- *Mister Rogers' Neighborhood* (1968), Handyman Negri

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