Gianni Russo

Gianni Russo

1943-12-12 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA 37 Credits

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...

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Ennio

Ennio

2022

Producer

8.3
Producing

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

Send No Flowers

2013

as Johnny Pisano

Acting

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.

Mulberry St.

2010

as Self

6.0
Acting

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

After the Sunset

2004

as Clippers Fan

6.2
Acting

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

Forbidden Grass

2002

Director

7.8
Directing

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

Red Dragon

2002

as Newsie

7.0
Acting

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

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

2002

Editor

6.7

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

Rush Hour 2

2001

as Red Dragon Pit Boss

6.8
Acting

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

Harvard Man

2001

as Andrew Bandolini

4.7
Acting

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

3000 Miles to Graceland

2001

as Money Cart Guard

5.8
Acting

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

Acting

An ambitious assistant prosecuting attorney, his wife, and an audacious erotic performance artist, engage in a triangle of ambition, deceit, romance, ...

The Family Man

The Family Man

2000

as Nick

6.8
Acting

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

Any Given Sunday

1999

as Christina's Advisor

6.8
Acting

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

1.5
Acting

A chance encounter leaves a successful salesman and a struggling college student envious of each other's lives.

Striptease

Striptease

1996

as Willy Rojo

5.5
Acting

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

Kill Shot

1995

as Jake Mondello

4.3
Acting

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

Kill Shot

Kill Shot

1995

Writer

4.3
Writing

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

Super Mario Bros.

Super Mario Bros.

1993

as Scapelli

4.5
Acting

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

Stay Tuned

1992

as Guido

6.2
Acting

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

Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion

1991

as Marco Sabatini

7.4
Acting

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

Another You

1991

as Carlos

5.4
Acting

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

Acting

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

The Great Pretender

1991

as Davey Desapio

1.0
Acting

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

Out for Justice

1991

as Sammy

6.1
Acting

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

The Freshman

1990

as Maitre D’ Gourmet Club

6.3
Acting

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

Side Out

1990

as Dick Sydney

5.4
Acting

A law student comes to California for the summer and ends up playing professional volleyball.

Chances Are

Chances Are

1989

as Anthony Bonino

6.6
Acting

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

Wiseguy: Pilot

1987

as David 'Dave' Steelgrave

Acting

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

Winter Kills

1979

as Co-Pilot

5.9
Acting

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

Laserblast

1978

as Tony Craig

3.2
Acting

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

The Four Deuces

1975

as Chip Morono - the 'Deuce of Clubs'

4.0
Acting

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

Lepke

1975

as Albert Anastasia

5.2
Acting

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

Lo sgarbo

1975

as Salvatore Mannino (as Luis Vito Russo)

1.0
Acting

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

The Godfather Part II

1974

as Carlo Rizzi

8.6
Acting

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

The Bait

1973

as Gianni Ruggeri

6.4
Acting

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

Goodnight, My Love

1972

as Michael Tarlow

6.7
Acting

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

The Godfather

1972

as Carlo Rizzi

8.7
Acting

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corl...