Vincent Gardenia

Vincent Gardenia

1920-01-07 Naples, Italy 55 Credits

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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Howard

Howard

2018

as Mr. Mushnik (archive footage)

6.9
Acting

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

Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family

Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family

2006

as Self (archival footage)

6.0
Acting

Documentary highlighting the development of the screenplay into a film with the desired cast. It also describes the closeness among Italian families, ...

The Super

The Super

1991

as Big Lou Kritski

5.9
Acting

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 giv...

Coney Island

Coney Island

1991

as Self - Actor

6.0
Acting

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. ...

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

1990

as Harry Pizer

6.5
Acting

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

Age-Old Friends

Age-Old Friends

1989

as Michael Aylott

7.7
Acting

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 ...

Skin Deep

Skin Deep

1989

as Barney

6.1
Acting

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 blo...

Cavalli si nasce

Cavalli si nasce

1989

as Principe napoletano

5.7
Acting
Moonstruck

Moonstruck

1987

as Cosmo Castorini

6.9
Acting

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, ev...

Little Shop of Horrors

Little Shop of Horrors

1986

as Mushnik

6.9
Acting

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...

Deadheat

Deadheat

1986

as Tassi, the Commissioner

4.8
Acting

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 t...

Movers & Shakers

Movers & Shakers

1985

as Saul Gritz

3.7
Acting

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....

Night of 100 Stars II

Night of 100 Stars II

1985

as Self

8.0
Acting

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 t...

Brass

Brass

1985

as Chief Mike Maldonato

1.0
Acting

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.

Dark Mirror

Dark Mirror

1984

as Detective Al Church

5.0
Acting

After attorney Frank Girard is murdered, Detective Al Church suspects that Ms. Leigh Cullen is the perpetrator, as she was supposedly last seen with t...

Charley's Aunt

Charley's Aunt

1983

as Stephen Spettigue

Acting

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 a...

Muggable Mary: Street Cop

Muggable Mary: Street Cop

1982

as Maggio

Acting

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

Death Wish II

Death Wish II

1982

as Det. Frank Ochoa

6.2
Acting

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

The Odd Squad

The Odd Squad

1982

as General Briggs

5.0
Acting

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 attac...

Thornwell

Thornwell

1981

as Traeger

6.0
Acting

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 ...

The Last Flight of Noah's Ark

The Last Flight of Noah's Ark

1980

as Stoney

5.5
Acting

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

Home Movies

Home Movies

1980

as Doctor Byrd

5.6
Acting

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

Goldie and the Boxer

Goldie and the Boxer

1979

as Sam Diamond

4.5
Acting

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 part...

Marciano

Marciano

1979

as Al Weill

Acting

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

The House by the Edge of the Lake

The House by the Edge of the Lake

1979

as Old Painter

5.5
Acting

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 l...

Firepower

Firepower

1979

as Frank Hull

4.8
Acting

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.

Heaven Can Wait

Heaven Can Wait

1978

as Krim

6.6
Acting

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...

Greased Lightning

Greased Lightning

1977

as Sheriff Cotton

6.3
Acting

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

Fire Sale

Fire Sale

1977

as Benny Fikus

4.5
Acting

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...

The Big Racket

The Big Racket

1976

as Pepe

7.0
Acting

Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles a criminal gang terrorizing a sleepy Italian town, extorting cash from the local merchants. With the t...

La banca di Monate

La banca di Monate

1976

as Santino Paleari

5.0
Acting

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 ...

Luna di miele in tre

Luna di miele in tre

1976

as Frankie, the journalist

4.9
Acting

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".

House of Pleasure for Women

House of Pleasure for Women

1976

as Mr. Chips

5.5
Acting

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...

The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery

The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery

1975

as Big Daddy Jessup

5.2
Acting

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

The Front Page

The Front Page

1974

as Sheriff

7.3
Acting

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

Death Wish

Death Wish

1974

as Frank Ochoa

6.9
Acting

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 ...

Lucky Luciano

Lucky Luciano

1973

as Colonel Charles Poletti

6.3
Acting

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 l...

Bang the Drum Slowly

Bang the Drum Slowly

1973

as Dutch Schnell

6.0
Acting

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 w...

The Screaming Skull

The Screaming Skull

1973

as Ollie

5.3
Acting

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 ...

Hickey & Boggs

Hickey & Boggs

1972

as Papadakis

5.8
Acting

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 ja...

Cold Turkey

Cold Turkey

1971

as Mayor Wappler

6.2
Acting

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 everyt...

Little Murders

Little Murders

1971

as Carol Newquist

6.8
Acting

A young nihilistic New Yorker copes with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia, and ethnic-...

Where’s Poppa?

Where’s Poppa?

1970

as Coach Williams

6.1
Acting

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 ...

Jenny

Jenny

1970

as Mr. Marsh

4.5
Acting

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...

Mission: Impossible vs. the Mob

Mission: Impossible vs. the Mob

1969

as Vito Lugana

10.0
Acting

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

The Third Day

The Third Day

1965

as Preston

5.8
Acting

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 tempe...

A View from the Bridge

A View from the Bridge

1962

as Lipari

6.3
Acting

Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from...

The Hustler

The Hustler

1961

as Bartender

7.7
Acting

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...

Mad Dog Coll

Mad Dog Coll

1961

as Dutch Schultz

5.4
Acting

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

Parrish

Parrish

1961

as Bit part (uncredited)

5.4
Acting

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 riva...

The Dybbuk

The Dybbuk

1960

as Nissen

Acting

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 y...

Murder, Inc.

Murder, Inc.

1960

as Lazlo

6.4
Acting

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

Cop Hater

Cop Hater

1958

as Danny the Gimp

5.7
Acting

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

The Night America Trembled

The Night America Trembled

1957

as Dick

7.5
Acting

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 "St...

Twelve Angry Men

Twelve Angry Men

1954

as Bailiff

7.9
Acting

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 S...