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name: "Joe Viviani"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "11 July 1926"
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updated: "2026-09-16T21:16:54.275017+00:00"
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# Joe Viviani

Actor. Born 11 July 1926 in Newark, New Jersey, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 11 July 1926, Newark, New Jersey, USA

## Biography

Joe Viviani was an American actor. He was born on 11 July 1926 in Newark, New Jersey, and retired as Assistant Commissioner for the New Jersey State Department of Labor in 1984 before joining the Screen Actors Guild and beginning his screen career.

Viviani appeared in supporting and bit roles in several films, including the Judge in *When Harry Met Sally...* (1989), the fingerprint cop in *See No Evil, Hear No Evil* (1989), the pharmacy patron in *Scenes from a Mall* (1991) and Max in *The Paper* (1994). He also had credits in *Enemies, a Love Story* (1989), *Firehouse* (1987) and television episodes of *American Experience* (1993) and *The F.B.I. Files* (2002).

*Sources: imdb.com, obits.nj.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *When Harry Met Sally...* (1989), Fi1m 84, as Judge — [page](https://film.one/film/when-harry-met-sally.md)

## Also known for

- *The Paper* (1994), Max
- *Scenes from a Mall* (1991), Pharmacy Patron

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