Biography
Victor Argo (November 5, 1934 – April 7, 2004) was a Puerto Rican - American actor who usually played the part of a tough bad guy in his movies. Description above from the Wikipedia article Victor Argo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Lustre
2005
as Hugo
"Lustre" chronicles a change in heart, a spiritual awakening through the rise of an unlikely holy man. Filmed on the streets of New York in the year a...

Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
2003
Intimate portrait of Abel Ferrara: the result is an eccentric road movie, with the restless film maker as a charming, shabby guide around New York by ...

Music
2003
as Salesman
Spiced with surreal, Kafkaesque twists, MUSIC is about a man who loves music and is fascinated by the fair sex. But he is not quite sure why and how h...

Angela
2002
Manhattan- as it is every day of the week, year in, year out. Life is pretty routine for Bob, about to turn 70, yet aching for one last fling. Maybe h...

Bridget
2002
as Grant
Being addicted to alcohol, single mother Anna had to give her son to foster parents, but they would "sell" him back if she offers enough money. When s...

'R Xmas
2001
as Louie
A New York drug dealer is kidnapped, and his wife must try to come up with the money and drugs to free him from his abductors before Christmas.

Double Whammy
2001
as Lt. Spigot
Ray Pluto has many problems. He is satirized in the tabloids as the "loser cop." His partner is starting to seem suspiciously attracted to him. A pair...

Don't Say a Word
2001
as Sydney Simon
When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he is horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a young woman, su...

Queenie in Love
2001
as Horace
A quirky, romantic New York comedy about the pursuit of love, life and the right to be yourself.

Angel Eyes
2001
as Carl Pogue
A story about a seemingly unlikely couple who cross paths under life-threatening circumstances as though they are destined not only to meet but to sav...

Fast Food Fast Women
2000
as Seymour
How important is the truth when falling in love? Bella is a Manhattan café waitress, about to turn 35, stuck in a long-term affair going nowhere. Paul...

The Yards
2000
as Paul Lazarides
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...

Blue Moon
2000
as Tony
Hoping to revitalize their marriage, an elderly couple from New York (Gazzara, Moreno) go on vacation to the Catskills.

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
1999
as Vinny
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of ancient Japan finds himself targeted for death by the mob.

Coming Soon
1999
as Mr. Neipris
Privileged teenage friends Jenny, Nell and Stream spend their senior year on a quest to rid Stream of her virginity. However, Stream wants more than j...

New Rose Hotel
1999
as Portugese Business Man
A corporate raider and his henchman use a chanteuse to lure a scientific genius away from his employer and family.

On the Run
1999
as Man Shaving
Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from p...

Lulu on the Bridge
1998
as Pierre
This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy, whose life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.

Side Streets
1998
as Albani Krug
The lives of diverse characters in each of New York City's five boroughs overlap.

Next Stop Wonderland
1998
as Frank
Dumped by her loser boyfriend, Erin's love life hits rock bottom when her overbearing mother places an embarrassing ad in the "personals" section of a...
Going Nomad
1998
as Spiro
El Cid Rivera is 33 and has never left Manhattan Island; neither have his childhood friends, whom he meets every day at the same bar around the same t...

Sins of Silence
1996
as Nick DiMatteo
A former nun who has become a rape counselor defies a court order to release her file on a rape victim.

The Funeral
1996
as Julius
After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge.

Condition Red
1995
as Victor Klein
Prison guard falls in love with inmate. She wants him to let her escape.

Blue in the Face
1995
as Vinnie
A wacky group of locals visit the neighborhood cigar shop, looking for good times and finding plenty of hilarious fun. But when the greedy owner threa...

Smoke
1995
as Vinnie
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul t...

Somebody to Love
1994
as Santa Claus
Mercedes is a taxi dancer who wants to be an actress. She's involved with the married Harry, who considers himself a respected actor. Ernesto is in lo...

Monkey Trouble
1994
as Charlie
Dodger, a criminal monkey, belongs to a crooked street performer but escapes his life of crime only to end up in the arms of Eva, an innocent little g...

Men Lie
1994
as Scott's Dad
Swearing fidelity to his fiancée, two-faced Scott attempts to bed every woman who crosses his path.

Dangerous Game
1993
as Director of Photography
A New York film director, working on his latest movie in Los Angeles, begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he beg...

Household Saints
1993
as Lino Falconetti
A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York’s Little Italy.

True Romance
1993
as Lenny
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

The Final Contract
1993
as Victor
David Sloan is 40 and is a Vietnam veteran unable to accept his violent past. Decides to consult a psychiatrist and gradually begins to understand tha...

Bad Lieutenant
1992
as Bet Cop
While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways...

Shadows and Fog
1991
as Vigilante
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.

McBain
1991
as El Presidente
Santos attempts to lead a people's revolt in Colombia to overthrow the Presidente. When his revolt fails and he is killed, his sister Christina goes t...

Johnny Ryan
1990
as Frank Costello
An honest, hard-working cop has to go up against the mob in 1949 New York City.

King of New York
1990
as Roy Bishop
A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and ...

Quick Change
1990
as Skelton
With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation...

Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989
as Detective
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an ...

New York Stories
1989
as Cop
Get ready for a wildly diverse, star-studded trilogy about life in the big city. One of the most-talked about films in years, New York Stories feature...

Her Alibi
1989
as Avram
A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thin...

The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
as Peter, Apostle
Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -...

The Pick-up Artist
1987
as Harris
A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.

Florida Straits
1986
as Pablo
A man who spent 20 years in Cuban prison after the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion and a boat captain and his crew go covertly to Cuba to find a c...

Raw Deal
1986
as Dangerous Man
Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief H...

Off Beat
1986
as Leon
Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance perform...

After Hours
1985
as Diner Cashier
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.

Desperately Seeking Susan
1985
as Sgt. Taskal
A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken ...

The Electric Chair
1985
A shoe store manager attempts to revive a failed career as a stand-up comic by performing at a mysterious club where he finds himself sharing the stag...

Falling in Love
1984
as Victor Rawlins
During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize e...

Hanky Panky
1982
as Pallbearer
Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later m...

Dream House
1981
as Ramirez
Vacationing Georgia construction worker (John Schneider) meets and falls for Manhattan's comely Director of Urban Renewal (Marilu Henner) and despite ...

The Rose
1979
as Lockerman
Rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster's romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperilled by the demands of life on the road.

Which Way Is Up?
1977
as Angel
Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his sex-obsessed father, Rufus, and timid spo...

Hot Tomorrows
1977
as Tony
A portrait of a young man, Michael, so obsessed with death that he decorates his room with a life-size Grim Reaper. One night Michael's closest buddy,...

Taxi Driver
1976
as Melio
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for ...

Force Five
1975
as Frankie Hatcher

The Terminal Man
1974
as Orderly
As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures...

Tight as a Drum
1974
as Tony Longo
A military school graduation ceremony is interrupted when a student's dope-smuggling father is killed in the gym.

Smile Jenny, You're Dead
1974
as Sgt. Richard Marum
David Janssen (The Fugitive) portrays dogged detective Harry in the telefilm that was the second of two pilots preceding his memorable Harry O series....

The Don Is Dead
1973
as Augie the Horse
After his mistress is murdered, a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.

Mean Streets
1973
as Mario
A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.

The Unholy Rollers
1972
as Vinnie the Trainer
Karen wants more action out of life and quits her job at the cannery to become a skater in the roller derby. She encounters friction from the other sk...

Boxcar Bertha
1972
as McIver #1
"Boxcar" Bertha Thompson, a transient woman in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30s, meets up with rabble-rousing union ma...