- Was also an artist who drew caricatures.
- Was an admirer of Orson Welles and Sydney Greenstreet.
- VeSota is remembered for prominent supporting roles in 15 Roger Corman films as well as for having directed three low-budget features: Female Jungle (1956), The Brain Eaters (Corman as uncredited executive producer, 1958) and Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962).
- He was married to fellow actress Jebbie VeSota from 1953 until his death (their union produced eight children).
- In the 1960s, he played the barman in a number of episodes of Bonanza.
- He was an American character actor, director and producer who, between 1945 and 1974, appeared in hundreds of television episodes and over 50 feature films.
- Impressed by his dark good looks, professionalism, and dry sense of humor, Roger Corman took notice of his potential and he arranged for him to begin a secondary career in the film industry as an actor going on to appear in over 80 features, often typecast as husbands, fathers, blue-collared guys, eccentrics, battle-axe neighbors, landlords, alcoholics, con-artists, cowboys, bartenders, guards, curmudgeons, clergymen, politicians, doctors, lawyers, educators, agents, waiters, servants, chauffeurs, reporters, detectives, hitmen, aristocrats, wealthy bachelors, and patriarchs.
- VeSota was one of the founding members of the Canyon Theatre Guild, and was a chairman for his local charters of the American Red Cross and the Boys & Girls Clubs.
- VeSota entered Chicago television in 1945 writing many teleplays for WBKB-TV such as an adaption of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart".
- While directing an episode of "Chicagoland Mystery Players", he was discovered by film director Roger Corman who was in the area attending a film conference.
- He made his big-screen debut in 1953 with appearances in The System and The Wild One.
- In 1974, he withdrew from acting and went on to enjoy a successful career as a communications instructor for the UCLA, where he taught for two years until his demise for the complications of a heart attack.
- He was a regular parishioner of the Catholic church.
- Bruno VeSota was supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund.
- After attaining his degree in communications from the State University of Illinois, he originally began his career as a director and screenwriter for WBKB.
- He is best remembered for his portrayal of the stern Dave Walker in the cult classic "Attack of the Giant Leeches" (1959).
- VeSota was one of the directors of They Stand Accused, "television's first live dramatic courtroom series", which ran on WGN-TV before it expanded to national distribution first on CBS and later on DuMont.
- In 1948, he moved to WGN-TV as a producer, director and writer.
- He also directed "Chicagoland Mystery Players" on WGN-TV before it went on Dumont.
- During his career, he was a member of the Screen Actors Guild.
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