Joseph Peter Spano (born July 7, 1946)[1][2] is an American actor known best for his roles as Lt. Henry Goldblume on Hill Street Blues and FBI Special Agent Tobias C. Fornell on NCIS.

Spano was a member of the San Francisco improvisation group The Wing, and in college debuted as Paris in a production of Romeo and Juliet in 1967.

In 1968, he helped found the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, acting in its first production, and stayed with the company for ten years.

In Hill Street Blues he played Henry Goldblume during the entire seven-year run of the series, first as a detective sergeant, later as a lieutenant.

Spano won an Emmy award in 1988 for Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series for a role he played in an episode of Midnight Caller.

At the Rubicon Theater in Ventura he has played General Burgoyne in George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple, Greg in A. R. Gurney's Sylvia and Vladimir in Waiting for Godot.