Jon Freda

Jon Freda

Born: August 28, 1950
in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Jon Freda was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in an Italian-American family. He served as a naval officer and attended academic doctoral programs in New York and Canada. As an actor, Jon's performances range from the comedy hit TV/web series, 50 To Death, to his critically noticed dramatic portrayal of Rocco in the film, The Family. He received the Outstanding Actor Award for The Cannes Film Festival entrant, Sisyphus' Supper, and published accolades for his portrayal of Jimmy Durante in his Off-Broadway solo show, Imagine DatI, which he wrote in cooperation with the Durante Estate. Jon is also an accomplished screenwriter and playwright, receiving three awards for his feature script ,Say Nothing, from the Guild of Italian American Actors; and four awards for his musical comedy stage play, Alien Adventure The Adventure, from the Midtown International Theater Festival in New York. Jon enjoys swimming, walking his dog in the park, creating digital art because he does not like the clean up, and hopes to learn to speak Italian better before his next visit to Rome.

Movies for Jon Freda...

Big Time Adolescence
Title: Big Time Adolescence
Character: Grandfather
Released: March 13, 2020
Type: Movie
A seemingly bright and mostly innocent 16-year-old named Mo attempts to navigate high school under the guidance of his best friend Zeke, an unmotivated-yet-charismatic college dropout. Although Zeke genuinely cares about Mo, things start to go awry as he teaches Mo nontraditional life lessons in drug dealing, partying, and dating. Meanwhile, Mo’s well-meaning dad tries to step in and take back the reins of his son’s upbringing.
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Crooked & Narrow
Title: Crooked & Narrow
Released: June 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Amy Walsh returns to Philadelphia after 10 years to visit her ex-cop, current-con father and to join a stick-up crew. After a job gone wrong, Warren Mercer, the cop who put her dad in prison gets on her trail.
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Digital Physics
Title: Digital Physics
Character: Dr. Mercury Jhaitin
Released: October 18, 2015
Type: Movie
Set in a hostel in the 1980s, 'Digital Physics' follows Khatchig, a man searching for truth in mathematics, physics, logic, and life. As he monopolizes the sole computer in the hostel to make sense of a counter-intuitive result, he has an epiphany: We may be living in a computer simulation.
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An Inappropriate Affect
Title: An Inappropriate Affect
Character: Chester
Released: February 11, 2015
Type: Movie
Sgt. Tom Schmidt is waiting to come home from the Iraq War. But first, he has to get through the Elm County Hospital Physical Therapy Program to relearn how to walk again. Elm County's Physical Therapy Department is good, but it is really famous for its mental health center, and the doctor's seem intent to capitalize on Tom's newfound celebrity from the Falujah torture case that put him in his wheelchair and made headlines around the world. Tom is forced to play their game in order to regain his freedom, but finds there is something more sinister at play.
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Title: The Blacklist
Character: Caio
Released: September 23, 2013
Type: TV
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.
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The Family
Title: The Family
Character: Rocco
Released: September 13, 2013
Type: Movie
The Manzoni family, a notorious mafia clan, is relocated to Normandy, France under the witness protection program, where fitting in soon becomes challenging as their old habits die hard.
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Run
Title: Run
Character: Mr. Palermo
Released: July 3, 2013
Type: Movie
A street smart, 17-year-old named Daniel practices Parkour and is both hero and thief.
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Scrooge and Marley
Title: Scrooge and Marley
Character: Judge Darnay
Released: December 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Ebenezer Scrooge is back in a made-for-TV film produced by Coral Ridge Ministries. The ill-tempered miser is played by skilled Christian actor Dean Jones, widely acclaimed for his acting ability in St. John in Exile and well-known for many Disney movies and Broadway shows.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Lawyer
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Public Defender
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Witch Story
Title: Witch Story
Character: Alex Hayes
Released: May 26, 1989
Type: Movie
A young girl and her brother take some friends on trip to check out a house the pair has just inherited. What they don't know is that the house is haunted by demons and the ghost of a woman who was burned at the stake as a witch, and who now plans to take revenge by killing off the siblings and their friends.
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Smokey and the Bandit Part 3
Title: Smokey and the Bandit Part 3
Character: Guest (uncredited)
Released: August 12, 1983
Type: Movie
The Enos duo convince Cletus, aka The Bandit, to come out of hiding and help them promote their new restaurant. With a little coaxing, he agrees, producing an almost-creaky Trigger as his mode of transport. But his nemesis, Sheriff Buford T. Justice, is on the hunt, forcing Cletus and Trigger to hit the road. Can they steer clear of the vengeful sheriff?