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Vincent Gardenia

Acting

Born January 7, 1920 · Naples, Italy

Died December 9, 1992

Also known as Vince Gardenia

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Vincent Gardenia  (January 7, 1920 – December 9, 1992) was an Italian American stage, film, and television actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vincent Gardenia, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Awards & recognition

  • Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie · 1990
  • Academy AwardBest Supporting Actor · 1988 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Supporting Actor · 1974 · nominated

Filmography42 titles

Reading Rainbow

1983as Self - Narrator (voice)

Coney Island

1991as Self - Actor

Twelve Angry Men

1954as Bailiff

All in the Family

1971as Frank Lorenzo

The Hustler

1961as Bartender

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

1970

Mission: Impossible

1966as Lewis George Parma

The Front Page

1974as Sheriff

The Fugitive

1963as Capt. Bill Gibbs

Kojak

1973as Det. Vince LaGuardia

McCloud

1970

The Rat Patrol

1966as Colonel Centis

L.A. Law

1986as Murray Melman

Little Shop of Horrors

1986as Mushnik

Moonstruck

1987as Cosmo Castorini

The Big Racket

1976as Uncle Pepe

Death Wish

1974as Frank Ochoa

Maude

1972as Judge Motorman

The Rookies

1972

Ironside

1967

Howard

2018as Mr. Mushnik (archive footage)

Mannix

1967as Eddie Cortina

Gunsmoke

1955as Charles Shepherd

Decoy

as Bull

Heaven Can Wait

1978as Krim

Greased Lightning

1977as Sheriff Cotton

Kennedy

1983as J. Edgar Hoover

Death Wish II

1982as Det. Frank Ochoa

Cold Turkey

1971as Mayor Wappler

A View from the Bridge

1962as Lipari

Skin Deep

1989as Barney

The Big Valley

1965as John Sample

Bang the Drum Slowly

1973as Dutch Schnell

Where's Poppa?

1970as Coach Williams

The Super

1991as Big Lou Kritski

Hickey & Boggs

1972as Papadakis

Cop Hater

1958as Danny the Gimp

Naked City

1958as Musso

The Last Flight of Noah's Ark

1980as Stoney

The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery

1975as Big Daddy Jessup

Parrish

1961as Bit part (uncredited)

Firepower

1979as Frank Hull