Joe Pesci

Joe Pesci

1943-02-09 Newark, New Jersey, USA 58 Credits

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...

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Day of the Fight

Day of the Fight

2024

as Mike's Father

7.1
Acting

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

Day of the Fight

2024

Executive Producer

7.1
Producing

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

Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain

2023

as Self

8.7
Acting
Making 'The Irishman'

Making 'The Irishman'

2020

as Self

7.0
Acting

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)

Acting

Documentary detailing the behind the scenes of GoodFellas.

The Collaboration Of A Lifetime: Scorsese’s Epic The Irishman

The Collaboration Of A Lifetime: Scorsese’s Epic The Irishman

2020

as Self

7.0
Acting

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

The Irishman: In Conversation

2019

as Self

7.5
Acting

Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino in conversation about The Irishman.

The Irishman

The Irishman

2019

as Russell Bufalino

7.6
Acting

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

Google Assistant: Home Alone Again

2018

as Self

Acting

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

I Go Back Home - Jimmy Scott

2016

as Self

Acting

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)

Acting

Thelma Schoonmaker on Martin Scorsese and 'The King of Comedy'

Behind the Gate

Behind the Gate

2013

as Self

Acting

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

Acting

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

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

2012

as (archive footage)

7.6
Acting

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

Love Ranch

2010

as Charlie Bontempo

5.4
Acting

Story of a couple that starts the first legal brothel in Nevada and a boxer they own a piece of.

Making Casino

Making Casino

2007

as Self

Acting

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

The Good Shepherd

2006

as Joseph Palmi

6.3
Acting

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

Raging Bull: After the Fight

2005

as Self

8.0
Acting

The fourth and final installment about the production of "Raging Bull."

Raging Bull: Outside the Ring

Raging Bull: Outside the Ring

2005

as Self

8.0
Acting

The third part about the production of "Raging Bull."

Raging Bull: Before the Fight

Raging Bull: Before the Fight

2005

as Self

10.0
Acting

The first part of a four-part documentary about the production of "Raging Bull."

Raging Bull: Inside the Ring

Raging Bull: Inside the Ring

2005

as Self

9.0
Acting

The second part about the production of "Raging Bull."

Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'

Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'

2004

as Self

5.0
Acting

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

Acting

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

Lethal Weapon 4

1998

as Leo Getz

6.6
Acting

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'

Gone Fishin'

1997

as Joe Waters

4.8
Acting

Two fishing fanatics get in trouble when their fishing boat gets stolen while on a trip.

8 Heads in a Duffel Bag

8 Heads in a Duffel Bag

1997

as Tommy

5.0
Acting

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

Casino

1995

as Nicky Santoro

8.0
Acting

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!

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

1994

as Ronald Grump

7.0
Acting

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

With Honors

1994

as Simon Wilder

6.7
Acting

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

Jimmy Hollywood

1994

as Jimmy Alto

5.2
Acting

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

A Bronx Tale

1993

as Carmine

7.9
Acting

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

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

1992

as Harry

6.8
Acting

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

The Public Eye

1992

as Leon Bernstein

6.2
Acting

A crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.

Lethal Weapon 3

Lethal Weapon 3

1992

as Leo Getz

6.7
Acting

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

My Cousin Vinny

1992

as Vincent 'Vinny' Gambini

7.5
Acting

Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortuna...

JFK

JFK

1991

as David Ferrie

7.6
Acting

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

The Super

The Super

1991

as Louie Kritski

5.9
Acting

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

Home Alone

1990

as Harry

7.4
Acting

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

GoodFellas

1990

as Tommy DeVito

8.5
Acting

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

Betsy's Wedding

1990

as Oscar Henner

5.7
Acting

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

Martin Scorsese Directs

1990

as Self

9.0
Acting

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

Catchfire

1990

as Leo Carelli (uncredited)

5.3
Acting

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

Lethal Weapon 2

1989

as Leo Getz

7.0
Acting

Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.

Moonwalker

Moonwalker

1988

as Mr. Big

6.9
Acting

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

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway

1988

as John Dos Passos

Acting

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

Acting

A behind the scenes look at Michael Jackson's Moonwalker film

Man on Fire

Man on Fire

1987

as David

5.7
Acting

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

Half Nelson

1985

as Rocky Nelson

Acting

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!

All for the Moral Majority!

1984

as Corrado Parisi

5.6
Acting

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

Once Upon a Time in America

1984

as Frankie Monaldi

8.4
Acting

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

Easy Money

1983

as Nicky Cerone

6.0
Acting

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

Eureka

1983

as Mayakofsky

5.3
Acting

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

Dear Mr. Wonderful

1982

as Ruby Dennis

4.8
Acting

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

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

1982

as Roger

6.0
Acting

An adaptation of Barbara Gordon's nonfiction account of her addiction to Valium.

Raging Bull

Raging Bull

1980

as Joey LaMotta

7.9
Acting

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

Short Eyes

1977

as Other Inmate (uncredited)

6.7
Acting

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

Family Enforcer

1976

as Joe

6.5
Acting

A kid from the neighborhood goes to work for the Mafia as a collector.

Hey, Let's Twist!

Hey, Let's Twist!

1961

as Peppermint Club Dancer

3.7
Acting

Film about the creation of New York's famous Peppermint Lounge, where the Twist became a dance craze.