Born June 20, 1933· Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
† Died December 12, 2019
40Roles★ 6.5Average rating
Born in Manhattan’s Lincoln Square to Italian immigrant parents and raised in the South Bronx, he left school early to enlist in the Army, later worked as a union leader for Greyhound bus drivers and as a bouncer at New York’s Improv club, experiences that shaped his gritty screen presence. Breaking into film in the early 1970s, he appeared in Bang the Drum Slowly before delivering a memorable lin…
