Biography
With a singularly nebulous background, which, by his account, included stints as a Las Vegas nightclub emcee, radio personality, and jewelry tycoon, and comparatively little acting experience, Gianni Russo won the role of Carlo Rizzi in The Godfather (1972) on the basis of his screen test. Since then, Russo has remained busy as an actor, mostly playing assorted "wiseguys" and Mafia types. He was appeared again with Marlon Brando in a small role in The Freshman (1990) in which Brando parodied his...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Ennio
2022
Producer
A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-...

Send No Flowers
2013
as Johnny Pisano
Through the voice of her aging father, mafia princess Toni runs the city. But when her father is gunned down by a rival crime family, Toni joins force...

Mulberry St.
2010
as Self
Born in the Bronx and raised in upstate New York, Abel Ferrara started his professional film career on Mulberry Street in 1975. For the past year he's...

After the Sunset
2004
as Clippers Fan
An FBI agent is suspicious of two master thieves, quietly enjoying their retirement near what may - or may not - be the biggest score of their careers...

Forbidden Grass
2002
Director
All you wanted to know about THC and you were never told. A mix of documentary, comedy and live music to celebrate the Italian movement in favor of th...

Red Dragon
2002
as Newsie
Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it ...

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
Editor
Rosy-Fingered Dawn is a film on Terrence Malick. It is about the making of BADLANDS, DAYS OF HEAVEN, THE THIN RED LINE and the personal involvement of...

Rush Hour 2
2001
as Red Dragon Pit Boss
It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the lad...

Harvard Man
2001
as Andrew Bandolini
College has always been a time for experimentation, sexual, cultural and otherwise. "Harvard Man" plays out against a background of love, sex, basketb...

3000 Miles to Graceland
2001
as Money Cart Guard
It was an ingenious enough plan: rob the Riviera Casino's count room during an Elvis impersonator convention. But Thomas Murphy decided to keep all th...
Rope Art
2000
An ambitious assistant prosecuting attorney, his wife, and an audacious erotic performance artist, engage in a triangle of ambition, deceit, romance, ...

The Family Man
2000
as Nick
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning ...

Any Given Sunday
1999
as Christina's Advisor
A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance an...
Crossing Paths
1998
as Howard Thomas
A chance encounter leaves a successful salesman and a struggling college student envious of each other's lives.

Striptease
1996
as Willy Rojo
Bounced from her job, Erin Grant needs money if she's to have any chance of winning back custody of her child. But, eventually, she must confront the ...

Kill Shot
1995
as Jake Mondello
Out at Pacific Coast University, five students living in the same apartment building go through personal trials.

Kill Shot
1995
Writer
Out at Pacific Coast University, five students living in the same apartment building go through personal trials.

Super Mario Bros.
1993
as Scapelli
Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only ho...

Stay Tuned
1992
as Guido
Salesman Roy Knable spends all his free time watching television, to the exasperation of his wife, Helen. One day, TV salesman Spike convinces Roy to ...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion
1991
as Marco Sabatini
An editor of a fashion magazine writes a column that destroys careers. She is also a brutal employer. An editor of a rival magazine visits, asking she...

Another You
1991
as Carlos
George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con-man, is suppose...
Silverfox
1991
as Klaus Gerhardt
Unsold series pilot about a former secret service agent, turned government spy, who can't seem to retire. Cases always keep coming his way to solve.

The Great Pretender
1991
as Davey Desapio
A newspaper reporter, who has just won a trial against his newspaper which had fired him, suffers dangerous reprisals at his work.

Out for Justice
1991
as Sammy
Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his partner was someone's big mistake......

The Freshman
1990
as Maitre D’ Gourmet Club
After a film student gets his belongings stolen, he meets a mobster bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. Soon, he finds h...

Side Out
1990
as Dick Sydney
A law student comes to California for the summer and ends up playing professional volleyball.

Chances Are
1989
as Anthony Bonino
Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and ...

Wiseguy: Pilot
1987
as David 'Dave' Steelgrave
This was the feature-length pilot for the hit series. Vinnie Terranova, a Justice Department agent reassigned to the Organized Crime Bureau as a “wise...

Winter Kills
1979
as Co-Pilot
The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the...

Laserblast
1978
as Tony Craig
Happy go-lucky teen Billy Duncan discovers an otherworldly laser gun in the southern California desert, making him the target of a pair of aliens who ...

The Four Deuces
1975
as Chip Morono - the 'Deuce of Clubs'
This is a tongue-in-cheek crime melodrama that became a 'Late Late Show' fixture in the 1980s, according to the DVD sleeve, Jack Palance plays Vic Mor...

Lepke
1975
as Albert Anastasia
Lepke is the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Lepke began his criminal ca...

Lo sgarbo
1975
as Salvatore Mannino (as Luis Vito Russo)
A glamorous playboy thug's brutal trail of murder, terrorism and sexual blackmail across Las Vegas, Rome, Paris and London quickly wins him a prominen...

The Godfather Part II
1974
as Carlo Rizzi
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone at...

The Bait
1973
as Gianni Ruggeri
Tracy Fleming is a widowed police officer, with a young son, who has risen to the role of plainclothes operative. After six women have been raped and ...

Goodnight, My Love
1972
as Michael Tarlow
Gruff gumshoe Francis Hogan is hired by a mysterious woman to find her boyfriend who has gone missing. With his perpetually hungry partner in tow, Hog...

The Godfather
1972
as Carlo Rizzi
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corl...