Biography
Richard Joseph Libertini (May 21, 1933 – January 7, 2016) was an American stage, film and television actor.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Dolphin Tale
2011
as Fisherman
A story centered on the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap.

A Grandpa for Christmas
2007
as Karl Sugerman
An old-time movie-star singer/ hoofer rebonds with his estranged daughter and 9-year-old granddaughter.

Everybody Wants to Be Italian
2007
as Papa Aldo Tempesti
Are all relationships based on lies? Jake Bianski runs a fish market in north Boston, surrounded by Italians. For years, he's carried a torch for Isab...

Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss
2007
as Dr. Franklin Bennett
Jane Doe sets out to track down a killer who is targeting fellow CSA agents.

Grilled
2006
as Rabbi Silver
Maurice and Dave sell high-end cuts of beef, but after hitting a patch of no sales, they're facing being fired. Maurice needs money to enroll in his f...

The 4th Tenor
2002
as Vincenzo
A restaurant owner falls in love with an opera singer and, desperate to impress her, travels to Italy to learn how to sing.

Vendetta
1999
as Giovanni Provenzano
Based on a true story, Vendetta tells the shocking and tragic story of a group of Sicilian immigrants working on the New Orleans docks in the 1890's. ...

Telling You
1998
as Mr. P
Instead of moving on to bigger and better things after college graduation, two best buddies are embarrassed to find themselves working at a pizza parl...

Nell
1994
as Dr. Paley
In a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell — a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets.

The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990
as Ed Rifkin
After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and ...

Awakenings
1990
as Sidney
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patie...

Extreme Close-Up
1990
as Mr. Bower
Innovative drama mixing film and video, with a teenager obsessed with watching his late mother, killed in an auto accident, on tapes he recorded of th...

DuckTales: The Movie - Treasure of the Lost Lamp
1990
as Dijon (voice)
With his nephews and niece, everyone's favorite rich uncle, Scrooge McDuck, treks from his mansion home in Duckburg in search of the long-lost loot of...

The Lemon Sisters
1989
as Nicholas Panas
Three life-long friends work the bars in 1980s Atlantic City performing the songs of the 1960s girl groups.

Animal Behavior
1989
as Doctor Parrish
Biologist Alex Brisco develops a new method to communicate with chimpanzees. Instead of using machines, she teaches the chimps simple sign language. H...

Fletch Lives
1989
as Frank Walker
Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown mansion he's inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns ...

Betrayed
1988
as Sam Kraus
An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.

Big Trouble
1986
as Dr. Lopez
Leonard Hoffman is an insurance salesman struggling to make ends meet. The fact that he has triplet sons who all want to go to Yale isn't making thing...

Fletch
1985
as Frank Walker
When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug trade at a local beach, he's approached by wealthy bu...

The Fourth Wise Man
1985
as Tigranes
Artaban is a young Magus (Wise Man) who desires to follow the star to the birthplace of the coming King, against the counsel of his friends and family...

All of Me
1984
as Prahka Lasa
Just before stubborn millionaire Edwina Cutwater dies, she asks her uptight lawyer, Roger Cobb, to amend her will so that her soul will pass to the yo...

Unfaithfully Yours
1984
as Giuseppe
A composer—who suspects his wife of cheating—plots to kill her and frame it on her lover, but things don't turn out as planned.

Deal of the Century
1983
as Masaggi
Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; und...

Going Berserk
1983
as Rev. Sun Yi Day
John Bourgignon, a drummer-chauffeur engaged to the daughter of a United States senator, encounters a sleazy film director, the leader of an aerobics ...

Sleeping Beauty
1983
as King Murray
A prince chases his destiny to an ancient castle in search of a cursed princess, thanks to the help of an informative lumberjack.

Best Friends
1982
as Jorge Medina
When a professional couple, who have lived and worked together for many years, finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpected ...

Soup for One
1982
as Angelo
A neurotic young New Yorker believes he has found his perfect match and desperately tries to win her over.

Sharky's Machine
1981
as Nosh
Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky's new '...

Popeye
1980
as Geezil
Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and wi...

The In-Laws
1979
as General Garcia
In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a ...

Days of Heaven
1978
as Vaudeville Leader
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harve...

Three on a Date
1978
as Gabe
The adventures and mishaps of four couples, winners on a TV game show, along with their young chaperone, on a Hawaiian holiday.

Peeping Times
1978
as Salesman
Peeping Times is a comedy special that aired on NBC on January 25, 1978. Co-produced, written and directed by Rudy De Luca and Barry Levinson, the spe...

Fame
1978
as Airport Policeman
A waiter becomes a sudden overnight success as a playwright, and then begins negotiations with an Italian movie director to turn his play into a film....

The 2nd Annual HBO Young Comedians Show
1977
as Self
Young Comedians Show is HBO's long running showcase of young stand-up comedians.
Calling Doctor Storm, M.D.
1977
as Dr. Nate Nateman
The life of doctor and hospital administrator Jim Storm at All Fellows Hospital and his cop wife, Patti.

Fire Sale
1977
as Painter
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...

I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?
1975
as Jack Kirsten
Oliver is in trouble. He's been caught embezzling money from his father's company, and unless he can pay back the $250,000 he took (which he can't), h...

Lady Liberty
1971
as Tim (uncredited)
An Italian woman faces challenges at JFK Airport when Customs confiscates the mortadella sausage she brought as a gift for her fiancé, leading to a hu...

Catch-22
1970
as Brother
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a craz...

The Out-of-Towners
1970
as Baggage Man - Boston
George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.

Don't Drink the Water
1969
as Father Drobney
The Hollander family's European vacation is interrupted when their plane is forced to land in Vulgaria. The Hollanders leave the plane to take picture...

The Night They Raided Minsky's
1968
as Pockets
Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy Minsky's Burlesque is hardly the place for her Da...