Joe A. Giamalva

Joe A. Giamalva is an American actor, choreographer, director and producer, possibly best known as one of the two actors who played the Pakuni, Ta on the Seventies TV-Show "Land of the Lost." 
Giamalva attended both Heights High School in Houston Texas (formerly John H. Reagan High School) and Lon Morris Jr. College in Jacksonville, Texas. He had his first acting role in an uncredited role as Mowgli in "The Magical World of Disney" in 1971, later playing several roles on the Sid and Marty Kroft series "H.R. Pufnstuf" in 1973. Afterward, he played Ta for six episodes of "Land of the Lost," another Kroft production, before getting replaced for unknown reasons by Scutter McKay. 
Through the rest of the Seventies, Giamalva had roles in the TV shows, "Welcome to Pooh Corner" and "Dumbo's Circus," as well as the TV-movies "Once Upon a Brothers Grimm" and "Too Smart for Strangers." In the Eighties, he starred in the shorts, "The Mother Goose Video Treasury" and "The World of Teddy Ruxpin," along with a brief appearance on the short-lived series, "Day by Day." 
Through his career, he was one of the dancers in the 1992 film, "Mr. Saturday Night," with Billy Crystal, later directing and producing "An Evening with the Golddiggers" in 2009. 
In 2014, he was the choreographer for the film, "Lady Windermere's Fan," and in 2020, he was Joe the Woodblock Player in "The Last Page of Summer," which reunited him with his "Land of the Lost" co-stars Wesley Eure, Kathy Coleman and Charon Baird in various roles.
Today, he is the owner of JAGCO Productions and still lives in Los Angeles, California.
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