Leo Rossi

Leo Rossi

1946-06-26 Trenton, New Jersey, USA 68 Credits

Biography

Leo Rossi  (born 1946) is an American character actor and writer with over 100 credits to his name, often playing authority figures, gangsters and other villains. He is known for his role as Budd Scarlotti in the 1981 horror film Halloween II and as Turkell from the 1990 horror sequel Maniac Cop 2. His other films include Heart Like a Wheel (1983), River's Edge (1986), The Accused (1988), Relentless (1989) and Analyze This (1999). Rossi starred on the 1980s short-lived TV series Partners in Crim...

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Gotti

Gotti

2018

as Bobby Boriello

5.3
Acting

John Gotti rises to the top of the New York underworld to become the boss of the Gambino crime family. His life takes a tumultuous turn as he faces tr...

Gotti

Gotti

2018

Screenplay

5.3
Writing

John Gotti rises to the top of the New York underworld to become the boss of the Gambino crime family. His life takes a tumultuous turn as he faces tr...

The Nightmare Isn't Over! The Making of Halloween II

The Nightmare Isn't Over! The Making of Halloween II

2012

as Self

7.0
Acting

Retrospective documentary about the making of "Halloween II."

Exodus Fall

2011

Acting

Set in 1974 Texas, three teen siblings struggle with the death of their father and try to live with their abusive mother. When one of the teens is sen...

At the Sinatra Club

At the Sinatra Club

2010

as Paul Castellano

2.9
Acting

Brutal and celebrated Mafia gangster John Gotti (Danny Nucci) schemes, shoves and murders his way to the top of that world in this gritty biography to...

Wisegal

Wisegal

2008

Executive Producer

5.3
Producing

A drama centered around Patty Montanari, the widowed mother of two who went to work for her lover Frank Russo, a captain in a Brooklyn crime family.

The Prince and the Pauper: The Movie

The Prince and the Pauper: The Movie

2007

as Officer Harold

5.6
Acting

A modern day telling of the Mark Twain classic, The Prince and the Pauper.

All In

All In

2006

as Dr. Hamilton

4.3
Acting

Six medical students with unique talents pool their resources to win the World Series of Poker.

10th & Wolf

10th & Wolf

2006

as Agent Thornton

5.9
Acting

A former street thug returns to his Philadelphia home after a stint in the military. Back on his home turf, he once again finds himself tangling with ...

10th & Wolf

10th & Wolf

2006

Producer

5.9
Producing

A former street thug returns to his Philadelphia home after a stint in the military. Back on his home turf, he once again finds himself tangling with ...

Diamond Zero

2005

as Augustine Garza

Acting

A daft doctor concocts an offbeat scheme to make millions after he happens upon a method of turning cremated human remains into diamonds. But when the...

Back By Midnight

Back By Midnight

2005

as Rusty

4.8
Acting

The warden of a small, rundown, minimum-security prison plots revenge against the the prison's dishonest owner by having four inmates break out and pl...

Mafioso: The Father The Son

Mafioso: The Father The Son

2004

as Vito Lupo

5.0
Acting

When the head of a mafia clan is perceived to be weakening, his family suffers a series of attacks. It is up to his son, Frankie, to figure out who’s ...

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

2003

as Acme VP, Climbing to the Top

6.3
Acting

Fed up with all the attention going to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck quits Hollywood, teams up with recently-fired stuntman Damien Drake Jr. and embarks on a...

Four Deadly Reasons

2002

as Otto

3.5
Acting

Bobby Venuti has a pregnant wife, and a mountain of gambling debts. Now, despite Bobby's best efforts to get out of the city and raise a family far aw...

The Rose Technique

The Rose Technique

2002

as Artie

2.8
Acting

The Rose Technique revolves around the life of an off-beat psychiatrist who wants to join the crazy world of daytime TV.

The Business of Fancydancing

The Business of Fancydancing

2002

as Mr. Williams

5.1
Acting

Seymour Polatkin is a successful, gay Indian poet from Spokane who confronts his past when he returns to his childhood home on the reservation to atte...

Road to Redemption

Road to Redemption

2001

as Sully Santoro

6.2
Acting

A couple come into contact with stolen mob money, gamble it away, and end up on the run from gangsters

One Eyed King

One Eyed King

2001

as 'Big' Joe Thomas

5.4
Acting

Residents of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen attempt to balance family and friendship against the harsh street life that unfolds around them

One Night at McCool's

One Night at McCool's

2001

as Joey Dinardo

5.9
Acting

On an ordinary night, in an ordinary part of town, a beautiful young woman walks into a bar. Her name is Jewel, and before long she is chatting to bar...

Separate Ways

Separate Ways

2001

2.7
Acting

A high-school crush some twenty years later, snowballs into stalking psychosis.

Crackerjack 3

Crackerjack 3

2000

as Ricky Santeria-Ramos

1.8
Acting

A group of retired spies once former enemies, are forced to work together in an attempt to retrieve a neutron bomb stolen by a group of new-wave, high...

Fatal Conflict

Fatal Conflict

2000

as Conrad Nash

4.6
Acting

In a lawless futuristic society, a rebel must prevent a tandem of renegades from destroying Los Angeles. An ex-star pilot is forced to stop a mad crim...

Fashionably L.A.

1999

as Acting Teacher

2.4
Acting

Young women struggle to make it as models in Los Angeles.

The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human

The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human

1999

as The Female's Father

5.9
Acting

David Hyde Pierce, playing an alien (credited as infinity-cubed in the opening credits), narrates a courtship in a late-20th century American city as ...

Analyze This

Analyze This

1999

as Carlo Mangano

6.5
Acting

Countless wiseguy films are spoofed in this film that centers on the neuroses and angst of a powerful Mafia racketeer who suffers from panic attacks. ...

The Assault

The Assault

1998

as Zigowski

2.5
Acting

A female cop assigned to protect a dead drug dealer's girlfriend from mob assassins takes her to a home for battered wives. When revenge is the only o...

True Friends

1998

as Carmine

7.0
Acting

New York, The Bronx, 1980. Two Italian boys Joey Esposito and Louie Mazerino jump to the defence of a smaller Puerto Rican boy, J.J. Lopez, when J.J. ...

Wedding Bell Blues

Wedding Bell Blues

1996

as Robert

4.2
Acting

Micki, Tanya and Jasmine have 24 hours to get divorced. There's just one problem...They're still single. When Jasmine, Tanya and Micki decide they'd ...

Rave Review

Rave Review

1995

as Brian

Acting

A dark comedy set in the L.A. theatre scene, as director Steve Maletti accidentally causes the death of a legendarily harsh critic.

Beyond Desire

Beyond Desire

1995

as Frank Zulla

4.7
Acting

Rita is a sexy call girl in a red Corvette convertible who just met Ray. Ray is an ex-con just released after serving 14 years for a killing he claims...

In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King

In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King

1995

as Moran

3.5
Acting

Al is caught between his loyalty to the police force and his love for his brother in a tense setting. It seems that his brother, Rudy, was involved in...

Mutant Species

Mutant Species

1995

as Hollinger

3.7
Acting

A rocket containing bio-hazardous material to be disposed of by launching into space crashes in a remote wooded area. An army team is sent to recover ...

The Misery Brothers

The Misery Brothers

1995

as Michael Misery

2.0
Acting

Screwball sex comedy focusing on two brothers.

Fast Getaway II

Fast Getaway II

1994

as Sam Potter

4.5
Acting

A former robber (whose partner was his father) has reformed and is now running an insurance business with his girlfriend. An ex-partner frames him for...

Relentless IV: Ashes to Ashes

Relentless IV: Ashes to Ashes

1994

as Det. Sam Dietz

5.2
Acting

Sam Dietz is back and must find and stop another serial killer before he kills again. Detective work for Dietz is tough having to juggle two gorgeous ...

Felony

Felony

1994

as Detective Kincade

4.6
Acting

A reality cop show films a police raid on a drug ring that goes awry and results in the massacre of 11 policemen. All of this gets taped by the camera...

Raw Justice

Raw Justice

1994

as Lieutenant Atkins

5.2
Acting

The mayor of a small town hires a bounty hunter to find his daughter's killer, but it turns out to be a very dangerous job.

Runaway Daughters

Runaway Daughters

1994

as Deputy 2

6.0
Acting

Angie, Mary, and Laura are teenage girls who are fed up with their bland and unexciting small town lives. Mary discovers that she's pregnant after hav...

Relentless 3

Relentless 3

1993

as Sam Dietz

4.8
Acting

Sam Dietz, the relentless police detective, returns to Los Angeles from a self-imposed exile to help the police solve another series of brutal killing...

Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story

Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story

1993

as Bobby Buttafuoco

6.0
Acting

Joey Buttafuoco's story, of how a sexy, possessive young girl destroyed his life by telling her friends the two are lovers, and then shooting his wife...

We're Talkin' Serious Money

We're Talkin' Serious Money

1992

as Charlie

5.0
Acting

A couple of bumbling con men go on the lam when they can't repay a loan from the mob.

We're Talkin' Serious Money

We're Talkin' Serious Money

1992

Writer, Co-Producer

5.0
Writing Producing

A couple of bumbling con men go on the lam when they can't repay a loan from the mob.

Dead On: Relentless II

Dead On: Relentless II

1992

as Sam Dietz

5.4
Acting

Detective Sam Dietz is paired with a shady FBI agent to track down another serial killer terrorizing Los Angeles.

Where the Day Takes You

Where the Day Takes You

1992

as Mr. Burtis

6.2
Acting

King is a young man, but he's already a veteran of life on the streets of Los Angeles. The de facto leader of a group of teenage runaways, King acts a...

Fast Getaway

Fast Getaway

1991

as Sam Potter

5.9
Acting

Nelson, played by Corey Haim is a teenager who robs banks with his father in group along with two other friends. Corey Haim Is the right guy, in the r...

Too Much Sun

Too Much Sun

1990

as George

4.6
Acting

A multimillionaire, whose son is gay and daughter a lesbian, leaves a will with one clause: His children will inherit his money only if at least one o...

Maniac Cop 2

Maniac Cop 2

1990

as Turkell

5.9
Acting

After being framed by corrupt superiors and brutally assaulted in prison, Officer Matt Cordell teams up with a vicious serial killer to track down tho...

Relentless

Relentless

1989

as Sam Dietz

5.4
Acting

Two Los Angeles police detectives hunt for a serial killer who randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory.

Peter Gunn

Peter Gunn

1989

as Det. Russo

4.7
Acting

Peter Gunn, a connoisseur of beautiful women and cool jazz, is an ex-cop turned private eye who's caught in the middle of a dangerous gang war.

Hit List

Hit List

1989

as Frank DeSalvo

6.0
Acting

A family man and a mob witness hunt for a hit-man who has mistakenly kidnapped the family man's son.

The Accused

The Accused

1988

as Cliff 'Scorpion' Albrect

7.0
Acting

Out drinking one night after a fight with her boyfriend, three men brutally rape Sarah Tobias in a bar while people watch and cheer. District Attorney...

Out of Time

Out of Time

1988

as Hawkins

4.0
Acting

A cop from the future goes back in time to Los Angeles and teams up with his grandfather to capture a master criminal.

Maniac Cop

Maniac Cop

1988

as Mayor's Chief of Staff (uncredited)

6.1
Acting

Innocent people are brutally killed on the streets of New York by a uniformed police officer. A young cop, Jack Forrest, finds himself marked as the c...

Leonard Part 6

Leonard Part 6

1987

as Chef

2.8
Acting

After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a restaurateur. His wife refuses to speak with him, and his da...

Russkies

Russkies

1987

as Keefer

5.1
Acting

A group of American boys discovers a Russian sailor washed up on the coast of Florida and decide to befriend him, assuming that he is friendly and wil...

Black Widow

Black Widow

1987

as Ricci

6.2
Acting

Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But sin...

River's Edge

River's Edge

1986

as Jim

6.5
Acting

A group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Faced with the brutality of death, ea...

One Too Many

One Too Many

1985

as Mr. Jenkins

Acting

Four high school friends find their lives changed forever when one of the friends drives drunk with devastating results.

Kids Don't Tell

Kids Don't Tell

1985

as Detective Rastelli

10.0
Acting

When a documentary-maker begins to make a film about child sexual abuse, the subject begins to eat into him and affect his relationship with those aro...

Brainwash

Brainwash

1983

as Chris Morris

5.7
Acting

A group of husbands with their wives participate in a reunion where everybody will find his hidden secret. The methods used are terrible, but usually ...

Heart Like a Wheel

Heart Like a Wheel

1983

as Jack Muldowney

5.6
Acting

Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of raci...

Halloween II

Halloween II

1981

as Budd

6.6
Acting

After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie t...

The Pirate

The Pirate

1978

as Shadin

4.6
Acting

An Israeli man, raised by a wealthy and powerful Arab, comes into conflict with his heritage when he is entrusted with managing his country's oil fort...

Grand Theft Auto

Grand Theft Auto

1977

as Vegas Muscle Chief

5.3
Acting

A rich girl steals her dad's Rolls Royce and heads off to Las Vegas to get married. However, her angry parents, a jealous suitor, and a bunch of rewar...

Mr. Billion

Mr. Billion

1977

as Italian Kidnapper

5.5
Acting

An Italian mechanic finds that he has inherited a billion-dollar company from his dead uncle, but he needs to be in San Francisco in 20 days to sign o...

Alias Big Cherry

Alias Big Cherry

1975

as Big Cherry

Acting

The life and tribulations of Big Cherry Hill Fats, a 650-pound conman who swindled his victims out of 25 million dollars and helped bring down a crimi...

Before Memory

Before Memory

N/A

as Mr. Albert

1.0
Acting

A man suffering from amnesia teams up with a young girl to assist the FBI in solving the serial murders of eight young girls while struggling with fla...