Biography
Tony Musante (1936-2013) was an American actor. Born Anthony Peter Musante, Jr. in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of Natalie Anne (née Salerno), a school teacher, and Anthony Peter Musante, an accountant, Musante attended Oberlin College and Northwestern University. Musante acted in numerous feature films, in the United States and elsewhere, including Italy. Among his body of work are the television series Toma (predecessor to Baretta) and the soap opera As The World Turns, and the 1975 Broad...
Known For
Complete Filmography
FantastiCozzi
2016
as (archive footage)
A feature-length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi and his obsession with Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Ice
2013
as Mr. DeMartino
An enigmatic, existential enforcer for a small-time local crime boss does not suffer fools gladly. Unfulfilled and compromised by his life and the poi...
We Own the Night
2007
as Cpt. Jack Shapiro
A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
Gladiator of Pompeii
2007
Epic drama of Pompeii at the city’s height of glory, up to the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, this film is one of titanic proportions, recounting on t...
Promessa d'amore
2004
as Amilcare
Three orphans that grew up in an institution and refused to be separated by adoption meet again after becoming adults at the wedding of one of them.
La vita come viene
2003
as Professore
Max believes that existence is just a game, and his wife will have the arduous task of bringing him back to reality.
Italian Kings Of B
2003
as Self
Documentary on Italian genre cinema.
A Kiss in the Dark
2000
Alessandra Del Giudice, a successful lawyer with a few too many problems in the family, ends up in a coma for seven years following a road accident. W...
The Yards
2000
as Seymour Korman
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. W...
The Deep End of the Ocean
1999
as Angelo
A three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has ...
Exiled
1998
as Don Giancarlo Uzielli
NYPD Detective Mike Logan, who was reassigned to Staten Island after punching a corrupt politician, takes on a grisly murder case. When the investigat...
Deep Family Secrets
1997
as Lennox
A tale of hidden family scandals. A young woman journeys back to her birthplace and discovers that much of what she had always taken for granted conce...
The Repenter
1985
as Ragusa
A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But ...
The Trap
1985
as Michael
A woman becomes obsessed with a man she can't have, and carries the torch for more than 15 years.
Rearview Mirror
1984
as Vince Martino
When the psychopathic jailbreaker Hopps and his cousin steal a camper to continue their flight, they notice too late that there's a baby on the back s...
The Pope of Greenwich Village
1984
as Pete
Charlie and his troublesome cousin Paulie decide to steal $150000 in order to back a "sure thing" race horse that Paulie has inside information on. Th...
Spy Connection
1983
as Jurek Rudinski
Musante plays a man blackmailed and forced to assassinate a highly guarded KGB official. Two British agents have kidnapped his daughter and want him t...
High Ice
1980
as Lt. Col. Harris Thatcher
A grizzled veteran forest ranger finds himself in conflict with a decisive but impatient Army Search and Rescue officer who does not want to share com...
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
1979
as Sal Falcone
Six buddies spend the summer together at a Malibu beach house after each has separated from his wife at about the same time.
My Husband Is Missing
1978
as Derek Mackenzie
A young wife journeys to North Vietnam in an effort to find her husband, an American flier reported missing in action, and is joined by a cynical Cana...
Break Up
1978
as Paolo Naviase
Paolo has been reasonably happy for the past 10 years; he has a job at the university and has Sena as a lover all these years. When she suddenly decid...
Goodbye & Amen
1977
as John Dhannay
As John Dhannay, a CIA agent stationed in Rome, plans the overthrow of an African government, he discovers one of his men has been in contact with age...
Nowhere to Hide
1977
as Joey Faber
A special unit of the U.S. Marshal's Service is assigned to protect a syndicate hitman who is to testify against his former bosses, who have put out a...
The Desperate Miles
1975
as Joe Larkin
A disabled Vietnam vet sets out to prove that disabled people don't have to be helpless by starting a 180-mile trip in a wheelchair. On the way he fin...
Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley
1975
as Lt. William Calley
This docudrama follows the court-martial of the title character, the man held responsible for the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
Toma
1973
as Det. David Toma
This TV-pilot, later made into a TV-series, is about a cop in Newark, New Jersey, who defies his superiors to try to bring down the head of a Mafia nu...
The Pisciotta Case
1972
as Francesco Scauri
The magistrate, Scauri, inquires into the mysterious poisoning death of Gaspare Pisciotta, the imprisoned assassin of Salvatore Giuliano. He very soon...
The Last Run
1971
as Paul Rickard
A former mob getaway driver from Chicago has retired to a peaceful life in a Portuguese fishing village. He is asked to pull off one last job - to dr...
The Grissom Gang
1971
as Eddie Hagan
The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnap...
The Anonymous Venetian
1970
as Enrico
Without mentioning the reason, Venetian musician Enrico invites his ex-wife Valeria to visit him, and her heart is broken again during their last days...
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
1970
as Sam Dalmas
An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city and conducts his own investi...
Love Circle
1969
as Max
A liberal-thinking author watches his wife as she attempts to seduce his best friend at a dinner party. She ends up taking on another man as well, and...
The Mercenary
1968
as Paco Roman
While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S. rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic peasant tells how he and a dedic...
The Detective
1968
as Felix Tesla
Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man.
The Incident
1967
as Joe Ferrone
Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.
Once a Thief
1965
as Cleveland 'Cleve' Shoenstein
Ex-convict Eddie and his wife, Kristine, attempt to build a new life for themselves and their daughter Kathy in San Francisco, but police officer Mike...