Vincent Gardenia

AKA: Vince Gardenia

2.7086

1920-01-07

Naples, Italy

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Vincent Gardenia (January 7, 1920 – December 9, 1992) was an Italian American stage, film, and television actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vincent Gardenia, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Sheriff

1974-11-01 7.305

The Front Page

A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit. ...

Genre :Comedy

Cosmo Castorini

1987-12-16 6.862

Moonstruck

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him. When she meets his ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Dutch Schultz

1961-05-12 5.615

Mad Dog Coll

Killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Mushnik

1986-12-19 7

Little Shop of Horrors

Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's; a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker, Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day, Seymour ...

Genre :Horror, Comedy

Doctor Byrd

1980-05-16 5.574

Home Movies

A cult guru urges a shy disciple to make life a movie and be its star. ...

Genre :Comedy

Krim

1978-06-28 6.613

Heaven Can Wait

Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to d ...

Genre :Fantasy, Comedy, Romance

Maggio

1982-02-25 0

Muggable Mary: Street Cop

Mary is a single mother with a disabled child who makes a living as a undercover cop catching johns, muggers, and rapists. ...

Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Carol Newquist

1971-02-09 6.793

Little Murders

A young nihilistic New Yorker copes with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia, and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 197 ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Barney

1989-03-03 6.144

Skin Deep

Hard-drinking novelist Zach Hutton spirals out of control after his wife and mistress both leave him. Alone and crippled by a bad case of writer's block, Zach slips in and out of casual relationships ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Stoney

1980-06-24 5.5

The Last Flight of Noah's Ark

The only chance to escape a desert island is to convert the plane carrying many different animals into a boat. ...

Genre :Adventure, Family

Benny Fikus

1977-06-09 4.5

Fire Sale

Benny and his wife Ruthie are getting set to drive down to Florida, but Benny needs someone to look after his department store while he's gone. Though he doesn't think much of him, Benny hands the res ...

Genre :Comedy

Frank Ochoa

1974-07-24 6.895

Death Wish

After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Action

Sheriff Cotton

1977-07-01 6.3

Greased Lightning

The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race. ...

Genre :Action, Comedy, Drama

Mayor Wappler

1971-02-19 6.22

Cold Turkey

Reverend Brooks leads his small Iowa town in a contest to stop smoking for a month. But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople d ...

Genre :Comedy

Det. Frank Ochoa

1982-02-20 6.2

Death Wish II

Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles. ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Coach Williams

1970-11-10 6.1

Where’s Poppa?

When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he promised his late father that he'd always take car ...

Genre :Comedy

Lazlo

1960-06-28 6.4

Murder, Inc.

Chronicles the rise and fall of the organised crime syndicate known as Murder, Incorporated, focusing on powerful boss Lepke and violent hit man Reles. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Danny the Gimp

1958-10-01 5.7

Cop Hater

Members of the 87th Precinct search for a cop killer who has already murdered two of their own. ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Pepe

1976-08-12 7

The Big Racket

Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles a criminal gang terrorizing a sleepy Italian town, extorting cash from the local merchants. With the threat of violence, no one dares to act, except for ...

Genre :Crime, Action

Big Lou Kritski

1991-10-04 5.887

The Super

Louie Kritski is a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ghetto apartment that he is threatened with jail time. The judge gives him another option -- he must live in his rat-i ...

Genre :Comedy

Bailiff

1954-09-20 7.915

Twelve Angry Men

Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20 September 1954, the drama was later rewritten for t ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Papadakis

1972-10-04 5.8

Hickey & Boggs

Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl. | Al Hickey (Cosby) & Frank Boggs (Culp) are two jaded private investigators who get hired to find a ...

Genre :Crime, Action, Mystery, Drama, Thriller

Colonel Charles Poletti

1973-10-19 6.3

Lucky Luciano

Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Saul Gritz

1985-05-03 3.692

Movers & Shakers

Studio head Joe Mulholland promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz, to adapt a popular sex manual into a film, despite his better judgment. Unable to figure out how to turn the nonfiction b ...

Genre :Comedy

Preston

1965-08-04 5.8

The Third Day

A man stumbles out of a car crash with no memory of what transpired. Everyone who he meets suggests that he is a ruthless man with an aggressive temper. Could he be deliberately blocking out memories ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller

Frankie, the journalist

1976-04-01 4.9

Luna di miele in tre

Close to the honeymoon, hotel waiter wins a stay in Jamaica with a pin-up. Direction directed by Carlo Vanzina, with the star of "Deep Throat". ...

Genre :Comedy

Tassi, the Commissioner

1986-01-01 4.8

Deadheat

A man travels to Siena, Italy, looking for his father, a jockey whom he has never met. The father is dead, and in investigating the circumstances of the death, the son ends up involved in a plot of mu ...

Genre :Action, Crime

Dutch Schnell

1973-08-26 6.029

Bang the Drum Slowly

The story of a New York pro baseball team and two of its players. Henry Wiggen is the star pitcher and Bruce Pearson is the normal, everyday catcher who is far from the star player on the team and fri ...

Genre :Drama

Harry Pizer

1990-11-26 6.5

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller, TV Movie

Mr. Mushnik (archive footage)

2018-04-22 6.892

Howard

Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable. Told entirely through rare archival footage and interviews with ...

Genre :Documentary, Music

Michael Aylott

1989-12-16 7.667

Age-Old Friends

John Cooper is in a retirement home. There are strict rules for the residents, but he refuses to fall into passivity. He flirts constantly with Nurse Wilson and spends time with his best buddy Michael ...

Genre :TV Movie, Comedy

Mr. Marsh

1970-01-02 4.5

Jenny

An unwed mother-to-be marries a total stranger so he can avoid the draft. She now has a father for her child and he doesn't have to go to Vietnam. But this marriage-of-convenience leads to a romance b ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Old Painter

1979-09-28 5.5

The House by the Edge of the Lake

A young university student returns to her family's country villa near a lake where years earlier her mother drowned. She is supposedly researching a local legend, a witch called Kira and strange symbo ...

Genre :Horror

Stephen Spettigue

1983-02-06 0

Charley's Aunt

Charley's Aunt is a farce in three acts written by Brandon Thomas. The story centres on Lord Fancourt Babberley, an undergraduate whose friends Jack and Charley persuade him to impersonate the latter' ...

Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Bartender

1961-09-25 7.674

The Hustler

Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Detective Al Church

1984-03-05 5

Dark Mirror

After attorney Frank Girard is murdered, Detective Al Church suspects that Ms. Leigh Cullen is the perpetrator, as she was supposedly last seen with the man. However, after Leigh's alleged twin sister ...

Genre :Thriller, Drama

Al Weill

1979-10-21 0

Marciano

A highly romanticized dramatization of the life of Rocky Marciano, the only heavyweight champion to have retired with a perfect record. ...

Genre :Action, Drama, TV Movie

Self

1985-03-10 8

Night of 100 Stars II

This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City M ...

Genre :Comedy, Music, TV Movie, Documentary

Sam Diamond

1979-12-30 4.5

Goldie and the Boxer

Lighthearted tale of a 10-year-old girl who, when her boxer father dies, strikes up a relationship with a struggling fighter who was his sparring partner and takes on the job of managing him from obsc ...

Genre :Action, Drama, TV Movie

Santino Paleari

1976-04-02 5

La banca di Monate

Lago Maggiore, 1949: a failed bank manager, to revive his economic situation, tries to combine a marriage of interest for his daughter. Failing to do so, he then tries a robbery in his own bank. ...

Genre :Comedy

Frank Hull

1979-04-27 4.76

Firepower

A mercenary is hired by the FBI to track down a powerful recluse criminal, a woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta. ...

Genre :Action, Adventure

Self - Actor

1991-02-04 6

Coney Island

Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of New York real estate was internationally famous. On summer Sundays, three great pleasure domes--St ...

Genre :History, Documentary

Bit part (uncredited)

1961-05-04 5.4

Parrish

Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, ruthless planter who wants to drive ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Traeger

1981-01-28 6

Thornwell

The story of James Thornwell, whose accusation that the U.S. Army used mind control drugs on him to force him to confess to stealing secret documents while stationed in Orleans, France, in 1961, led C ...

Genre :Drama, History, TV Movie

Big Daddy Jessup

1975-03-07 5.2

The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery

Film noir parody with a private eye trying to solve the murder of his milkman. ...

Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Ollie

1973-02-14 5.333

The Screaming Skull

Constantly demeaned by his wife, Helen, after the death of their son, Dr. Luke Pratt devises a scheme to do away with her, too. But if he thinks that will silence her, he has another think coming. Now ...

Genre :Horror, TV Movie

General Briggs

1982-01-01 5

The Odd Squad

Sicilia 1943, after the landing, between the invading Us army and the defender Italian army, a 2000 years old roman bridge resist to all kind of attacks. Both the army decides to definitively destroy ...

Genre :Comedy

Nissen

1960-10-03 0

The Dybbuk

The Dybbuk is a made for TV film adaptation of a classic Jewish folktale. The story is about a young Jewish man, Sender (Theodore Bikel) who loves a young Jewish woman, Leah (Carol Lawrence) but her f ...

Genre :Horror, Drama, Fantasy, History, TV Movie

Vito Lugana

1969-12-01 10

Mission: Impossible vs. the Mob

Jim Phelps leads the IMF on an assignment to destroy a criminal empire headed by Frank Wayne. ...

Genre :Action, Adventure

Self (archival footage)

2006-01-31 6

Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family

Documentary highlighting the development of the screenplay into a film with the desired cast. It also describes the closeness among Italian families, which comes from the kitchen, and how a real Itali ...

Genre :Documentary

Principe napoletano

1989-02-03 5.7

Cavalli si nasce

Genre :Comedy

Lipari

1962-01-19 6.3

A View from the Bridge

Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from childhood. Into his house come two brothers, ille ...

Genre :Drama

Chief Mike Maldonato

1985-01-01 1

Brass

The Chief of Detectives of the New York Police Department, is a tough cop who has worked his way up the ladder from being on a beat. ...

Genre :TV Movie

Dick

1957-09-09 7.5

The Night America Trembled

A recreation and commentary on how people reacted to the radio broadcast of The War Of The Worlds in 1938. [An episode of the CBS anthology series "Studio One".] ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Mr. Chips

1976-01-23 5.5

House of Pleasure for Women

The United States of America, after the great success of Vietnam, Watergate and so on, have decided to expand their activities in Italy. Mr. Chips has chosen Eddie Mordace to open the Italian branch o ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

1972-09-11 6.8

The Rookies

The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working in an unidentified city for the fictitious Souther ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Murray Melman

1986-09-15 7.1

L.A. Law

L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many o ...

Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Charlie Raines

1963-10-10 5.3

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks out of every four and was pre-empted for Perry Como ...

Genre :Mystery, Drama

(segment "Healer")

1985-09-27 7.748

The Twilight Zone

This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a ...

Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery

Curtis Rempley

1971-01-12 7.836

All in the Family

Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day. ...

Genre :Comedy

Judge Motorman

1972-09-12 6.735

Maude

Well-educated and upper middle class, Maude Findlay is the archetypal feminist of her generation. She lives in suburban Tuckahoe, New York, with her fourth husband, Walter, their divorced daughter, Ca ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Crudelli

1958-09-30 5.5

Naked City

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure

Eddie Cortina

1967-09-16 6.686

Mannix

Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title chara ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Drama

1970-09-19 7.539

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

30-year-old single Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis to start a new life after a romantic break-up. There she reacquaints with Phyllis who rents her a room, and meets her upstairs neighbor and new be ...

Genre :Comedy

Det. Vince LaGuardia

1973-10-24 7.004

Kojak

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City. ...

Genre :Crime, Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Charles Shepherd

1955-09-10 6.558

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the sett ...

Genre :Western, Action & Adventure, Drama

Dick

1948-11-07 5

Studio One

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the an ...

Genre :Drama

Vito Lugana

1966-09-17 7.6

Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible M ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama

1967-03-28 6.8

Ironside

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Bruno

1966-09-12 6.5

The Monkees

Micky, Mike, Peter, and Davy are four young men in mid-1960s LA, members of a struggling country-folk-rock band looking for their big break amid madcap encounters with a variety of people straight out ...

Genre :Comedy, Family

Capt. Bill Gibbs

1963-09-17 7.207

The Fugitive

Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery

1970-02-17 7.1

McCloud

Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico is assigned to the metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a special investigator. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

John Sample

1965-09-15 6.074

The Big Valley

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century Califor ...

Genre :Western, Drama

1967-09-08 7.5

Judd for the Defense

High-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases throughout the U.S. ...

Genre :Drama

Inspector

1964-09-13 7.2

The Rogues

The Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13, 1964, to April 18, 1965, starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Gig Young as a related trio of former conmen who c ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime

Bull

1957-10-14 6.2

Decoy

New York City policewoman Casey Jones' assignment to fight crime often entails her going undercover in some of the seediest and most dangerous parts of the city. Decoy is a groundbreaking American cri ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure, Mystery

1961-10-02 5.6

Ben Casey

Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboa ...

Genre :Drama

Colonel Centis

1966-09-12 7.2

The Rat Patrol

The exploits of four Allied soldiers — three Americans and one Englishman — who are part of a long-range desert patrol group in the North African campaign during World War II. Their mission: "to attac ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, War & Politics

Ray Stohler

1980-11-29 6

Breaking Away

Breaking Away is a 1980 American comedy-drama television series that was based on the 1979 film of the same name. It was created by Steve Tesich, who wrote the original film, and the film's director P ...

Genre :Drama

Chief Inspector

1964-09-13 7.2

The Rogues

The Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13, 1964, to April 18, 1965, starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Gig Young as a related trio of former conmen who c ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime

George Morton

1961-09-16 6.2

The Defenders

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as ne ...

Genre :Drama

Sullivan

1961-09-16 6.2

The Defenders

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as ne ...

Genre :Drama

Peter Chakris

1961-09-16 6.2

The Defenders

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as ne ...

Genre :Drama

Mr. Kraft

1961-09-16 6.2

The Defenders

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as ne ...

Genre :Drama

1961-01-24 0

Tallahassee 7000

Special Agent Lex Rogers of the Florida Sheriff's Bureau travels the state to assist local police departments fight crime in their jurisdiction. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Peter Kessler

1980-05-12 4.5

The Dream Merchants

This star-laden adaptation of Harold Robbins' best-selling 1949 novel about the birth of the movies features Mark Harmon as a drifter who comes under the wing of visionary nickelodeon operator Vincent ...

Genre :Drama

Musso

1958-09-30 5.5

Naked City

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure

Self

1961-12-11 5.375

The Mike Douglas Show

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went in ...

Genre :Comedy, Talk

Briggs

1965-09-15 6.074

The Big Valley

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century Califor ...

Genre :Western, Drama

J. Edgar Hoover

1983-11-20 6.333

Kennedy

Kennedy is a five-hour miniseries written by Reg Gadney and directed by Jim Goddard. The miniseries was produced by Central Independent Television and originally aired in the United States starting on ...

Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Himself - Narrator (voice)

1983-06-06 8.333

Reading Rainbow

Journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books. Each episode centers on a theme from a book, or other children's literature, which is explored through a number of s ...

Genre :Kids

Self - Nominee

1956-04-01 5.917

Tony Awards

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and Th ...

Genre :

Lewis George Parma

1966-09-17 7.6

Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible M ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama