Biography
Joseph Frank “Joe” Pesci (born February 9, 1943) is an American actor, comedian, singer and musician. He is known for his roles as violent mobsters, funnymen, comic foils and quirky sidekicks. Pesci has starred in a number of high profile films such as Goodfellas, Casino, Raging Bull, Once Upon a Time in America, My Cousin Vinny, Easy Money, JFK, Moonwalker, Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Lethal Weapon films. In 1990, Pesci won the Academy Award for Best Su...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Day of the Fight
2024
as Mike's Father
On the day of his first fight since his release from prison, a once-renowned boxer embarks on a redemptive journey through his past and present.

Day of the Fight
2024
Executive Producer
On the day of his first fight since his release from prison, a once-renowned boxer embarks on a redemptive journey through his past and present.

Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
2023
as Self

Making 'The Irishman'
2020
as Self
Join legendary director Martin Scorsese, and acting icons Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino going behind the scenes of their universally acclaim...
GoodFellas: Behind Closed Doors
2020
as Self (Archive Footage)
Documentary detailing the behind the scenes of GoodFellas.

The Collaboration Of A Lifetime: Scorsese’s Epic The Irishman
2020
as Self
Join legendary director Martin Scorsese, and acting icons Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino as we go behind the scenes of their universally acc...

The Irishman: In Conversation
2019
as Self
Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino in conversation about The Irishman.

The Irishman
2019
as Russell Bufalino
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank ...

Google Assistant: Home Alone Again
2018
as Self
The ad follows a similar plot to the Christmas comedy, with Culkin waking up in an empty house alone - except for his Google Assistant, of course.

I Go Back Home - Jimmy Scott
2016
as Self
In I GO BACK HOME - JIMMY SCOTT, we meet the German music producer Ralf Kemper, who takes on the journey to produce a record with the almost forgotten...
Inside Rupert Pupkin
2014
as Self (archive footage)
Thelma Schoonmaker on Martin Scorsese and 'The King of Comedy'

Behind the Gate
2013
as Self
Behind The Gate is the untold story of the Sport of Kings, American Horse Racing. Starring Joe Pesci in his first film in seven years, Oscar De La Hoy...
Rising Above the Blues: The Story of Jimmy Scott
2012
as Self
About Jimmy Scott, who has had profound influence on the world of jazz and pop, but was never recognized by a wider audience. The documentary takes us...

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between ma...

Love Ranch
2010
as Charlie Bontempo
Story of a couple that starts the first legal brothel in Nevada and a boxer they own a piece of.

Making Casino
2007
as Self
A four-part making-of documentary about Scorcese’s 1995 Vegas crime epic Casino featured in physical media releases and split into sections on the Sto...

The Good Shepherd
2006
as Joseph Palmi
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young ...

Raging Bull: After the Fight
2005
as Self
The fourth and final installment about the production of "Raging Bull."

Raging Bull: Outside the Ring
2005
as Self
The third part about the production of "Raging Bull."

Raging Bull: Before the Fight
2005
as Self
The first part of a four-part documentary about the production of "Raging Bull."

Raging Bull: Inside the Ring
2005
as Self
The second part about the production of "Raging Bull."

Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
2004
as Self
A documentary that presents a brief yet detailed account on the making of Martin Scorsese's "GoodFellas" (1990), the successful film that redefined th...
Joe Pesci: Wise Guy
1998
as Vinny Gambini
Music video for the actor Joe Pesci's deadpan gangster rap song Wise Guy about a foul-mouthed no-nonsense misogynistic mobster brag rapping about how ...

Lethal Weapon 4
1998
as Leo Getz
With personal crises and age weighing in on them, Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with deadly Chinese triads trying to free their former leaders from ...

Gone Fishin'
1997
as Joe Waters
Two fishing fanatics get in trouble when their fishing boat gets stolen while on a trip.

8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
1997
as Tommy
Mafia hitman Tommy Spinelli is flying to San Diego with a bag that holds eight severed heads, which he's bringing to his superiors to prove that some ...

Casino
1995
as Nicky Santoro
In early-1970s Las Vegas, Sam "Ace" Rothstein gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. At first, he's a great success in the job, but ov...

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994
as Ronald Grump
Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! was a 1994 TV special that aired on ABC to celebrate Sesame Street's 25th anniversary....

With Honors
1994
as Simon Wilder
Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who m...

Jimmy Hollywood
1994
as Jimmy Alto
Jimmy Alto is an actor wannabe who stumbles into the role of a lifetime. He becomes a vigilante crime-fighter, aided by his sidekick William, who has ...

A Bronx Tale
1993
as Carmine
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime b...

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
1992
as Harry
Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems f...

The Public Eye
1992
as Leon Bernstein
A crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.

Lethal Weapon 3
1992
as Leo Getz
Riggs and Murtaugh pursue a former officer who uses his knowledge of police procedure and policies to steal and sell confiscated guns and ammunition t...

My Cousin Vinny
1992
as Vincent 'Vinny' Gambini
Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortuna...

JFK
1991
as David Ferrie
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

The Super
1991
as Louie Kritski
Louie Kritski is a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ghetto apartment that he is threatened with jail time. The judge giv...

Home Alone
1990
as Harry
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. Wh...

GoodFellas
1990
as Tommy DeVito
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks ...

Betsy's Wedding
1990
as Oscar Henner
Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but B...

Martin Scorsese Directs
1990
as Self
Providing behind the scenes footage of the director on set with clips from his own films, Martin Scorsese Directs depicts to riveting effect the way S...

Catchfire
1990
as Leo Carelli (uncredited)
A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to ge...

Lethal Weapon 2
1989
as Leo Getz
Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.

Moonwalker
1988
as Mr. Big
Moonwalker is a 1988 American experimental anthology musical film starring Michael Jackson. Rather than featuring one continuous narrative, the film e...

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
1988
as John Dos Passos
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide...
The Making of Moonwalker
1988
as Self
A behind the scenes look at Michael Jackson's Moonwalker film

Man on Fire
1987
as David
Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swank...

Half Nelson
1985
as Rocky Nelson
Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to Hollywood decides to try his luck out as an actor...

All for the Moral Majority!
1984
as Corrado Parisi
The incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as u...

Once Upon a Time in America
1984
as Frankie Monaldi
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the gh...

Easy Money
1983
as Nicky Cerone
To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.

Eureka
1983
as Mayakofsky
After striking it rich on a large gold strike, a prospector retires to the quiet life on a Caribbean island but ends up coping with an alcoholic wife,...

Dear Mr. Wonderful
1982
as Ruby Dennis
Ruby Dennis is an middle-aged man with an unfulfilled ambition as a singer. As he begins to pursue that ambition, his family falls apart.

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
1982
as Roger
An adaptation of Barbara Gordon's nonfiction account of her addiction to Valium.

Raging Bull
1980
as Joey LaMotta
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

Short Eyes
1977
as Other Inmate (uncredited)
A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City’s infamous Tombs prison. When the other inmates in his cell block find ou...

Family Enforcer
1976
as Joe
A kid from the neighborhood goes to work for the Mafia as a collector.

Hey, Let's Twist!
1961
as Peppermint Club Dancer
Film about the creation of New York's famous Peppermint Lounge, where the Twist became a dance craze.