Philip Bosco's Birth Card: The Jack of Hearts

In the record

Philip Michael Bosco (September 26, 1930 – December 3, 2018) was an American actor. The birth-card coordinate for September 26 is the Jack of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1989 Best Actor in a Play (Lend Me a Tenor) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1989 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play — Lend Me a Tenor as Saunders

The Jack of Hearts coordinate

Philip Bosco's birthday maps to the Jack of Hearts (The Romantic Messenger). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Tony Award and not a verdict on Philip Bosco. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You bring a fresh read on love without leaving the room when it gets ordinary.

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Philip Bosco in the public record

He was known for his Tony Award-winning performance as Saunders in the 1989 Broadway production of Lend Me a Tenor and for his starring role in the 2007 film The Savages. Bosco won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1988. Philip Michael Bosco was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on September 26, 1930, to Margaret Raymond (née Thek), a policewoman, and Philip Lupo Bosco, a carnival worker. His father was of Italian descent and his mother was of German descent. Bosco attended St. Peter's Preparatory School in Jersey City, and later studied drama at Catholic University of America, where he had notable success in the title role of William Shakespeare's Richard III. Bosco began his career in Broadway theatre and earned a Tony Award nomination for his debut in The Rape of the Belt in 1960. Bosco spent the next three decades supporting major stars in classic revivals like Cyrano de Bergerac, King Lear, and Twelfth Night.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Philip Bosco (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 8 of Clubs

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Philip Bosco, and not a forecast of a Tony.

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Following his Tony-winning performance in the farce Lend Me a Tenor in 1990, Bosco appeared on Broadway in An Inspector Calls (1994), The Heiress (1995), Twelfth Night (1998), Copenhagen (2000), and Twelve Angry Men (2004).

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Also on the record

1. Bosco appeared in revivals of plays by George Bernard Shaw, including Man and Superman, Saint Joan, Mrs.
2. Warren's Profession, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House (opposite Rex Harrison), and You Never Can Tell, winning Tony nominations for the last three.
3. Bosco also appeared with Shirley Knight in the Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Come Back, Little Sheba.
4. Following his Tony-winning performance in the farce Lend Me a Tenor in 1990, Bosco appeared on Broadway in An Inspector Calls (1994), The Heiress (1995), Twelfth Night (1998), Copenhagen (2000), and Twelve Angry Men (2004).

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Elizabeth Seal — 1961 Best Actress in a Musical (Irma La Douce)
• Kevin Kline — 1981 Best Actor in a Musical (The Pirates of Penzance); 2017 Best Actor in a Play (Present Laughter)
• Tom Conti — 1979 Best Actor in a Play (Whose Life Is It Anyway?)

FAQ

What is Philip Bosco's birth card?

The Jack of Hearts. September 26 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Tony Award?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Philip Bosco's dates come from?

Birth date 1930-09-26 is the day-precision date on Philip Bosco's Wikipedia person page, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Wikipedia dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Tony Award wins come from the Wikipedia leading-acting lists, which record the Tony Awards. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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