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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
Known For
Complete Filmography

Howard
2018
as Mr. Mushnik (archive footage)
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
2006
as Self (archival footage)
Documentary highlighting the development of the screenplay into a film with the desired cast. It also describes the closeness among Italian families, ...

The Super
1991
as Big Lou Kritski
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
1991
as Self - Actor
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
1990
as Harry Pizer
Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Age-Old Friends
1989
as Michael Aylott
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
1989
as Barney
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
1989
as Principe napoletano

Moonstruck
1987
as Cosmo Castorini
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
1986
as Mushnik
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
1986
as Tassi, the Commissioner
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
1985
as Saul Gritz
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
1985
as Self
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
1985
as Chief Mike Maldonato
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
1984
as Detective Al Church
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
1983
as Stephen Spettigue
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
1982
as Maggio
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
1982
as Det. Frank Ochoa
Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.

The Odd Squad
1982
as General Briggs
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
1981
as Traeger
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
1980
as Stoney
The only chance to escape a desert island is to convert the plane carrying many different animals into a boat.

Home Movies
1980
as Doctor Byrd
A cult guru urges a shy disciple to make life a movie and be its star.

Goldie and the Boxer
1979
as Sam Diamond
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
1979
as Al Weill
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
1979
as Old Painter
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
1979
as Frank Hull
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
1978
as Krim
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
1977
as Sheriff Cotton
The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race.

Fire Sale
1977
as Benny Fikus
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
1976
as Pepe
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
1976
as Santino Paleari
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
1976
as Frankie, the journalist
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
1976
as Mr. Chips
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
1975
as Big Daddy Jessup
Film noir parody with a private eye trying to solve the murder of his milkman.

The Front Page
1974
as Sheriff
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
1974
as Frank Ochoa
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
1973
as Colonel Charles Poletti
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
1973
as Dutch Schnell
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
1973
as Ollie
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
1972
as Papadakis
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
1971
as Mayor Wappler
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
1971
as Carol Newquist
A young nihilistic New Yorker copes with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia, and ethnic-...

Where’s Poppa?
1970
as Coach Williams
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
1970
as Mr. Marsh
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
1969
as Vito Lugana
Jim Phelps leads the IMF on an assignment to destroy a criminal empire headed by Frank Wayne.

The Third Day
1965
as Preston
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
1962
as Lipari
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
1961
as Bartender
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
1961
as Dutch Schultz
Killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York.

Parrish
1961
as Bit part (uncredited)
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
1960
as Nissen
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.
1960
as Lazlo
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
1958
as Danny the Gimp
Members of the 87th Precinct search for a cop killer who has already murdered two of their own.

The Night America Trembled
1957
as Dick
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
1954
as Bailiff
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...