Lillo Brancato

Lillo Brancato

Born: March 30, 1976
in Bogotá, Colombia
Lillo Brancato, Jr. (born March 30, 1976) is a Colombian-born American actor, known for his performance as Calogero 'C' Anello in Robert De Niro's 1993 directorial debut, A Bronx Tale. He's also known for his role as radio operator Russell Vossler in Crimson Tide (1995), and as Benitez in Renaissance Man (1994). He also portrayed Matthew Bevilaqua, a young mobster on The Sopranos. In December 2005, Brancato was charged with second-degree murder for his role in a burglary in the Bronx, New York. Authorities say that an off-duty police officer, Daniel Enchautegui, confronted two burglars and was killed in a shootout. Brancato was subsequently acquitted of murder, but he was convicted of first-degree attempted burglary and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Co-defendant Steven Armento was convicted of firing the fatal shot. On December 31, 2013, he was released on parole.

He has continued to appear in movies.

Movies for Lillo Brancato...

I'm on Fire
Title: I'm on Fire
Character: Sal
Released: August 7, 2023
Type: Movie
Making mixtapes becomes a means of survival for a 12-year-old boy coping with warring parents and the turmoil of adolescence, in this ferociously energetic, music-driven coming-of-age drama by Australia’s Michael Spiccia.
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Made in Mexico
Title: Made in Mexico
Character: Ochoa
Released: May 2, 2022
Type: Movie
When a down-on-his luck father of three has Hollywood buzzing over his screenplay, it's a matter of time before all his dreams come true. However, his dreams are short lived when a pair of shady film makers con him out of the rights and he has no choice but to join forces with an unlikely partner, a drug lord who has plans of his own for this upcoming screenwriter.
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5th Borough
Title: 5th Borough
Character: Sonny Finici
Released: June 3, 2020
Type: Movie
When a cash-strapped man learns his daughter has a brain tumor, he turns to his old Staten Island buddies to get back into their “family business.”
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Wasted Talent
Title: Wasted Talent
Character: Himself
Released: July 1, 2018
Type: Movie
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Dead on Arrival
Title: Dead on Arrival
Character: Zanca
Released: August 11, 2017
Type: Movie
A pharmaceutical sales rep visits a small town in Louisiana on business. He finds himself in a dark world of corruption and murder with 24 hours to live, running from the police, the mob and a sheriff that wants him dead.
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Vamp Bikers Tres
Title: Vamp Bikers Tres
Character: Tony
Released: December 13, 2016
Type: Movie
The Witches have taken over Biker Town and turned a Biker into a Zombie. When he returns with a mob of Zombies, the supernatural showdown will unite the Zombies, Vampires, and Bikers against the Witches.
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Saturday Morning
Title: Saturday Morning
Character: Alan Delucci
Released: October 31, 2007
Type: Movie
Joey Piscopo stars in this quirky romantic comedy as Wes, a young man who becomes magically attractive to women on Saturday mornings (between six and eight o'clock).
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The Real Sopranos
Title: The Real Sopranos
Released: April 26, 2006
Type: Movie
This movie shows the connections between the TV series 'The Sopranos' and a real-life New Jersey Mob. The story of the rise and fall of New Jersey’s DeCavalcante crime family
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Searching for Bobby D
Title: Searching for Bobby D
Character: Bobby
Released: May 14, 2005
Type: Movie
 Four young filmmakers raise money for their project by telling potential investors that DeNiro is on board. Now they have to find him...
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Slingshot
Title: Slingshot
Released: March 10, 2005
Type: Movie
Two cunning and manipulative drifters venture into Farifield County, Connecticut looking to seduce wealthy and lonely housewives.
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Downtown: A Street Tale
Title: Downtown: A Street Tale
Character: Lenny
Released: November 7, 2004
Type: Movie
A group of street kids find that the only way to make it through the day is to hold onto their dreams while their reality is eating out of dumpsters, turning tricks and squatting in abandoned buildings.
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Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
Title: Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
Released: September 12, 2003
Type: Movie
Intimate portrait of Abel Ferrara: the result is an eccentric road movie, with the restless film maker as a charming, shabby guide around New York by night.
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The Real Deal
Title: The Real Deal
Character: Samy Saxo
Released: November 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Vince Vassar, an infamous Hollywood producer, thinks that the power he wields is limitless. But when he shuts his employee Sammy out of the multi-million dollar movie deal that Sammy brought him, the scorned assistant decides to eliminate Vince from the deal, and from every future one. Unfortunately, Vince's wife already has a plan for her husband's life and his money. Now a deadly web has been woven in which no one know who can trust whom.
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The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Title: The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Character: Larry
Released: August 16, 2002
Type: Movie
The year is 2087, the setting is the moon. Pluto Nash, the high-flying successful owner of the hottest nightclub in the universe, finds himself in trouble when he refuses to sell his club to lunar gangster Mogan, who just happens to be helping the mysterious Rex Crater mastermind a plan to take over the entire moon.
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'R Xmas
Title: 'R Xmas
Character: The Husband
Released: October 4, 2001
Type: Movie
A New York drug dealer is kidnapped, and his wife must try to come up with the money and drugs to free him from his abductors before Christmas.
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In the Shadows
Title: In the Shadows
Character: Jimmy Pierazzi
Released: June 24, 2001
Type: Movie
When a stunt man dies in Miami, his uncle, a New York mob boss, sends a hit man to tail the stunt coordinator, whom the boss wants dead. The hit man, Eric O'Bryne, gets close to his mark's daughter, and through her he asks her dad to teach him to do stunts. While waiting for the word to kill this mentor, Eric discovers the joy of stunt work and of being part of a family. Meanwhile, several people are looking for the dead man's briefcase of money and a cloth bag of illegal drugs that he stole from an undercover FBI agent now desperate to get the borrowed drugs back to the bureau. The stunt coordinator says that 'we dance in the shadows of death.' Can Eric step out into the sun?
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Mambo Café
Title: Mambo Café
Character: Wheasel
Released: April 21, 2000
Type: Movie
A beautiful Puerto Rican girl and her family in Spanish harlem devise a novel plan to attract business to their restaurant, causing a wildly comic sequence of events ending in near disaster.
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Blue Moon
Title: Blue Moon
Character: Pete
Released: January 16, 2000
Type: Movie
Hoping to revitalize their marriage, an elderly couple from New York (Gazzara, Moreno) go on vacation to the Catskills.
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Table One
Title: Table One
Character: Johnnie
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Four friends (Stephen Baldwin, Michael Rooker, Luis Guzman and David Herman) who are misfits in the New York City social scene have trouble meeting available women. They come up with the idea of opening a trendy restaurant -- funding their new venture with the help of a local gangster -- in hopes of attracting a large female clientele. It's one comedy situation after another as they stumble through their various misadventures.
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The Florentine
Title: The Florentine
Character: Pretty
Released: April 19, 1999
Type: Movie
A slice-of-life story unfolds inside The Florentine, a bar in a Pennsylvania steel town whose brightest days are behind it, leaving behind many of life's disillusioned "losers." Its owner, Whitey (Michael Madsen), is deep in debt to the town's loan shark, Joe McCollough (Burt Young), and desperate for a path forward which won't cost him the bar. His sister, Molly (Virginia Madsen), is days away from her long-awaited nuptials, and then her former fiancé, Teddy (Tom Sizemore), shows up in town for the first time since leaving her at the altar years before. Ne'er-do-well Billy Belasco (Jim Belushi) runs a con on Frankie (Luke Perry) to steal the money for the wedding caterer, while long-time regular Bobby (Chris Penn) becomes a patron-cum-inhabitant as he hides from his fast-crumbling marriage to Vikki (Mary Stuart Masterson). Every plot in this multi-layered story seems to be at its nadir just as a pair of unlikely heroes emerge out of the backdrop to turn everything around.
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Title: The Sopranos
Character: Matt Bevilaqua
Released: January 10, 1999
Type: TV
The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi. The show features Tony's family members and Mafia associates in prominent roles and story arcs, most notably his wife Carmela and his cousin and protégé Christopher Moltisanti.
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Enemy of the State
Title: Enemy of the State
Character: Young Worker
Released: November 20, 1998
Type: Movie
When the videotape of the murder of a congressman unknowingly ends up in the hands of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert Clayton Dean, he is framed for the murder. With the help of the mysterious Brill, Dean attempts to throw the NSA off his trail and prove his innocence.
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Provocateur
Title: Provocateur
Character: Chris Finn
Released: May 19, 1998
Type: Movie
In 1994 South Korea, a female North Korean spy integrates herself as a housekeeper for U.S. military officer to steal classified documents, but soon worries about her cover when she falls for the teenage son of the officer.
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FireHouse
Title: FireHouse
Character: Gaetano Luvullo
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A film about the dealings of a crew at a firehouse. The group is attacked by an assassin and eventually must accept that the firehouse is to be consolidated with a rescue unit.
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Crimson Tide
Title: Crimson Tide
Character: Petty Officer Third Class Russell Vossler Russell Vossler
Released: May 12, 1995
Type: Movie
After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on a relatively green but highly recommended Lt. Cmdr. Ron Hunter to the USS Alabama, which may be the only ship able to stop a possible Armageddon. When Ramsay insists that the Alabama must act aggressively, Hunter, fearing they will start rather than stop a disaster, leads a potential mutiny to stop him.
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Renaissance Man
Title: Renaissance Man
Character: Soldat Donnie Benitez
Released: June 3, 1994
Type: Movie
An advertising man is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for unemployment. One day they find him a job: teaching thinking skills to Army recruits. He arrives on base to find that there is no structure set up for the class.
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A Bronx Tale
Title: A Bronx Tale
Character: Calogero "C" Anello (Age 17)
Released: October 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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 boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.