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'''Joseph Kosala''' (c. 1947 - March 22, 2015), also known as '''Joe Kosala'''<ref name=book/><ref>{{cite web|last=Toloken|first=Steve|title=Police Find That Being Movie Extras Often Proves, Well, Kind Of Arresting|date=6 September 1993|publisher=''[[Chicago Tribune]]''|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-09-06/news/9309060163_1_police-officers-chicago-police-gene-kelly|accessdate=19 May 2016}}</ref> wa(contracted; show full)

Of the eight films Kosala appeared in, six of them were directed by Chicago native Andrew Davis.<ref name=suntimes/>  The first of these six movies was ''[[Code of Silence (film)|Code of Silence]]'' (1985) and according to Davis, "I first met Joe in probably 1984 or 1985 during 
[[location scouting]] for ''Code of Silence'', and he helped us a lot on our films.  He worked as the technical supervisor, and he did a lot for the film. That famous scene in the film where the two guys try to rob the cop bar, that’s a true story that Joe told me and we worked it into the film.”<ref name=suntimes/>  Kosala would often portray police officers, detectives or lieutenants in the films he appeared in, though he did portray an engineering specialist in Davis's ''[[Under Siege(contracted; show full)[[Category:American police officers]]
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