Tony Musante

Tony Musante

Born: June 30, 1936
Died: November 26, 2013
in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Tony Musante (1936-2013) was an American actor. Born Anthony Peter Musante, Jr. in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of Natalie Anne (née Salerno), a school teacher, and Anthony Peter Musante, an accountant, Musante attended Oberlin College and Northwestern University.

Musante acted in numerous feature films, in the United States and elsewhere, including Italy. Among his body of work are the television series Toma (predecessor to Baretta) and the soap opera As The World Turns, and the 1975 Broadway play, P. S. Your Cat Is Dead!, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work in a 1975 episode of Medical Center, A Quality of Mercy. Musante also played Antonio "Nino" Schibetta, a feared Mafia boss and the Italian gang leader inside of Emerald City during the first season of the HBO critically acclaimed television series Oz.

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FantastiCozzi
Title: FantastiCozzi
Character: (archive footage)
Released: May 21, 2016
Type: Movie
A feature-length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi and his obsession with Science Fiction and Fantasy.
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Title: Pupetta - Il Coraggio e la passione
Character: Don Luigi Vitiello
Released: June 6, 2013
Type: TV
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Ice
Title: Ice
Character: Mr. DeMartino
Released: April 18, 2013
Type: Movie
An enigmatic, existential enforcer for a small-time local crime boss does not suffer fools gladly. Unfulfilled and compromised by his life and the pointlessness that surround him, he detaches -- and methodically explores life's transitory nature in a surprising way. ICE is not a brooding film -- with flashes of humor and quirkiness -- it is a film about hope.
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We Own the Night
Title: We Own the Night
Character: Cpt. Jack Shapiro
Released: October 12, 2007
Type: Movie
A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
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Gladiator of Pompeii
Title: Gladiator of Pompeii
Released: September 22, 2007
Type: Movie
Epic drama of Pompeii at the city’s height of glory, up to the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, this film is one of titanic proportions, recounting on the grandest scale, its untimely destruction which killed 20,000 people in a matter of hours.Pompeii was a world where men and women had slaves, where gladiators fought to the death to provide entertainment to the bloodthirsty crowds. Helpless against a succession of apocalyptic events (a great earthquake,tidal waves, thunder and lightning), the inferno continued for three days and then all was silent.
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Title: Traffic
Character: Alex Edmonds
Released: January 26, 2004
Type: TV
Going beyond the Academy Award-winning movie, Traffic: The Miniseries takes an inside look at the highly lucrative world of illegal trafficking, a world in which supply and demand isn't just for drugs: it's also for goods, weapons, and even human beings.
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Promessa d'amore
Title: Promessa d'amore
Character: Amilcare
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Three orphans that grew up in an institution and refused to be separated by adoption meet again after becoming adults at the wedding of one of them.
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La vita come viene
Title: La vita come viene
Character: Professore
Released: May 9, 2003
Type: Movie
Max believes that existence is just a game, and his wife will have the arduous task of bringing him back to reality.
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A Kiss in the Dark
Title: A Kiss in the Dark
Released: May 31, 2000
Type: Movie
Alessandra Del Giudice, a successful lawyer with a few too many problems in the family, ends up in a coma for seven years following a road accident. When she wakes up she finds her husband waiting for her, who had just given permission to pull the plug on her life support, and her sister, who arrived at the last minute just in time to discover that Alessandra had lifted a finger and was about to reopen the eyes! Upon awakening, the worst surprise for the woman, however, is to discover that her son Yanneck has recently killed himself by jumping from a balcony. Convinced by a nightmare in which she sees the boy not jumping but being pushed by someone, she decides to investigate to understand what really happened.
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The Yards
Title: The Yards
Character: Seymour Korman
Released: April 27, 2000
Type: Movie
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm for contracts.
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Title: The Seventh Scroll
Character: Duraid Al Simma
Released: June 15, 1999
Type: TV
Past and present intertwine when an archaeologist and her husband find a mysterious child on the banks of the Nile and adopt him. But the more they learn about the lost tomb of Pharaoh Mamose, the more Hapi, the little child, is plagued by frightening visions. Soon it is clear that powerful forces are trying to prevent the couple from finding the tomb.
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The Deep End of the Ocean
Title: The Deep End of the Ocean
Character: Angelo
Released: March 12, 1999
Type: Movie
A three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated.
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Exiled
Title: Exiled
Character: Don Giancarlo Uzielli
Released: November 8, 1998
Type: Movie
NYPD Detective Mike Logan, who was reassigned to Staten Island after punching a corrupt politician, takes on a grisly murder case. When the investigation leads him back to the 27th Precinct, Logan sees a chance to resurrect his flailing career and be reinstated as a homicide detective.
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Title: Oz
Character: Nino Schibetta
Released: July 12, 1997
Type: TV
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
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Deep Family Secrets
Title: Deep Family Secrets
Character: Lennox
Released: April 15, 1997
Type: Movie
A tale of hidden family scandals. A young woman journeys back to her birthplace and discovers that much of what she had always taken for granted concerning her family life was a lie.
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Title: Acapulco H.E.A.T.
Character: Rocco Santora
Released: September 28, 1993
Type: TV
Acapulco H.E.A.T. is a 1993 syndicated television series that followed the Hemisphere Emergency Action Team [H.E.A.T.], a group of top-secret agents based in Acapulco, Mexico and recruited by C-5, a secret government coalition, to fight terrorism and international crime. The team kept a low profile, by acting as models and photographers who represented a Beach Fashion enterprise.
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Title: Appointment in Trieste
Character: Kirk Mesana
Released: October 3, 1989
Type: TV
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Title: Jesse Hawkes
Released: April 22, 1989
Type: TV
Jesse Hawkes is an American action television series that aired from April 22 until May 27, 1989. The series is a spin-off of High Mountain Rangers.
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Title: Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder
Character: Vittorio
Released: March 22, 1987
Type: TV
A sociopathic socialite plots her father's murder.
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The Repenter
Title: The Repenter
Character: Ragusa
Released: November 15, 1985
Type: Movie
A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But things aren't quite what they seem.
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Title: The Equalizer
Character: John Parker
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: TV
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
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The Trap
Title: The Trap
Character: Michael
Released: September 11, 1985
Type: Movie
A woman becomes obsessed with a man she can't have, and carries the torch for more than 15 years.
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Rearview Mirror
Title: Rearview Mirror
Character: Vince Martino
Released: November 16, 1984
Type: Movie
When the psychopathic jailbreaker Hopps and his cousin steal a camper to continue their flight, they notice too late that there's a baby on the back seat. At first they want to kill it, but...
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The Pope of Greenwich Village
Title: The Pope of Greenwich Village
Character: Pete
Released: June 22, 1984
Type: Movie
Charlie and his troublesome cousin Paulie decide to steal $150000 in order to back a "sure thing" race horse that Paulie has inside information on. The aftermath of the robbery gets them into serious trouble with the local Mafia boss and the corrupt New York City police department.
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Spy Connection
Title: Spy Connection
Character: Jurek Rudinski
Released: January 14, 1983
Type: Movie
Musante plays a man blackmailed and forced to assassinate a highly guarded KGB official. Two British agents have kidnapped his daughter and want him to do what they tell him. Why him? He has the ability to see in darkness and is a sharpshooter. Will he get the job done, get his daughter back, and escape from the Russian and British agents that pursue him?
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High Ice
Title: High Ice
Character: Lt. Col. Harris Thatcher
Released: January 7, 1980
Type: Movie
A grizzled veteran forest ranger finds himself in conflict with a decisive but impatient Army Search and Rescue officer who does not want to share command of an operation to rescue several stranded weekend climbers from a mountain ledge.
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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Title: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Character: Sal Falcone
Released: September 5, 1979
Type: Movie
Six buddies spend the summer together at a Malibu beach house after each has separated from his wife at about the same time.
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My Husband Is Missing
Title: My Husband Is Missing
Character: Derek Mackenzie
Released: December 5, 1978
Type: Movie
A young wife journeys to North Vietnam in an effort to find her husband, an American flier reported missing in action, and is joined by a cynical Canadian correspondent on the trail of a human interest story.
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Break Up
Title: Break Up
Character: Paolo Naviase
Released: November 7, 1978
Type: Movie
Paolo has been reasonably happy for the past 10 years; he has a job at the university and has Sena as a lover all these years. When she suddenly decides to leave the relationship, it comes as a shock to him, and he desperately wants to know the reason. After a series of reconciliations and separations, he finally finds out and briefly has another apparently blissful relationship with Silva.
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Goodbye & Amen
Title: Goodbye & Amen
Character: John Dhannay
Released: December 23, 1977
Type: Movie
As John Dhannay, a CIA agent stationed in Rome, plans the overthrow of an African government, he discovers one of his men has been in contact with agents from the other side. Before he can confront the traitor, the man seemingly goes crazy, sniping several people before taking an adulterous couple hostage in a hotel room.
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Nowhere to Hide
Title: Nowhere to Hide
Character: Joey Faber
Released: June 5, 1977
Type: Movie
A special unit of the U.S. Marshal's Service is assigned to protect a syndicate hitman who is to testify against his former bosses, who have put out a contract on his life.
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Title: Origins of the Mafia
Character: Michele Borello
Released: November 19, 1976
Type: TV
Mini series about the origins of the Italian mafia
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Title: Medical Story
Released: September 4, 1975
Type: TV
Medical Story is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from September 4, 1975 until January 8, 1976.
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The Desperate Miles
Title: The Desperate Miles
Character: Joe Larkin
Released: March 5, 1975
Type: Movie
A disabled Vietnam vet sets out to prove that disabled people don't have to be helpless by starting a 180-mile trip in a wheelchair. On the way he finds his life is endangered by a deranged truck driver.
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Judgment: The Court Martial of Lieutenant William Calley
Title: Judgment: The Court Martial of Lieutenant William Calley
Character: Lt. William Calley
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: Movie
This docudrama follows the court-martial of the title character, the man held responsible for the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
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Title: The Rockford Files
Character: Charlie Harris
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: TV
Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.
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Title: Toma
Released: March 21, 1973
Type: TV
Toma is an American crime drama series that ran on ABC in 1973 and 1974.
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Toma
Title: Toma
Character: Det. David Toma
Released: March 21, 1973
Type: Movie
This TV-pilot, later made into a TV-series, is about a cop in Newark, New Jersey, who defies his superiors to try to bring down the head of a Mafia numbers racket.
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Title: Police Story
Released: March 20, 1973
Type: TV
Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh and represented a major step forward in the realistic depiction of police work and violence on network TV. Although it was an anthology, there were certain things that all episodes had in common; for instance, the main character in each episode was a police officer. The setting was always Los Angeles and the characters always worked for some branch of the LAPD. Notwithstanding the anthology format, there were recurring characters. Scott Brady appeared in more than a dozen episodes as "Vinnie," a former cop who, upon retirement, had opened a bar catering to police officers, and who acted as a sort of Greek chorus during the run of the series, commenting on the characters and plots.
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The Pisciotta Case
Title: The Pisciotta Case
Character: Francesco Scauri
Released: November 23, 1972
Type: Movie
The magistrate, Scauri, inquires into the mysterious poisoning death of Gaspare Pisciotta, the imprisoned assassin of Salvatore Giuliano. He very soon finds himself struggling against a conspiracy of silence, which Scauri must therefore overcome in order to indict two powerful mafia bosses. His only hope comes for a brief moment from the testimony of the young prosecutor Lojacono. But The Organization is the most strong: the young prosecutor withdraws his deposition and the magistrate disappears in mysterious circumstances.
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The Last Run
Title: The Last Run
Character: Paul Rickard
Released: July 7, 1971
Type: Movie
A former mob getaway driver from Chicago has retired to a peaceful life in a Portuguese fishing village. He is asked to pull off one last job - to drive a dangerous crook and his girlfriend to France.
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The Grissom Gang
Title: The Grissom Gang
Character: Eddie Hagan
Released: May 28, 1971
Type: Movie
The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her captors are the Grissoms, a family comprised of sadists and morons, and headed by Ma Barker clone Irene Dailey. One of the Grissoms, played by Scott Wilson, takes a liking to his prisoner, which results in a bloody breakdown of the family unit. Both The Grissom Gang and the original No Orchids For Miss Blandish were inspired by the best-seller by James Hadley Chase, though neither film retains Chase's original ending.
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The Anonymous Venetian
Title: The Anonymous Venetian
Character: Enrico
Released: October 3, 1970
Type: Movie
Without mentioning the reason, Venetian musician Enrico invites his ex-wife Valeria to visit him, and her heart is broken again during their last days together.
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Title: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Character: Sam Dalmas
Released: February 27, 1970
Type: Movie
An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and conducts his own investigation despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.
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Love Circle
Title: Love Circle
Character: Max
Released: April 13, 1969
Type: Movie
A liberal-thinking author watches his wife as she attempts to seduce his best friend at a dinner party. She ends up taking on another man as well, and the writer has an affair with the another dinner guest. Soon the three men and two women are entangled in a confusing series of partner-swapping sex sprees where everyone's morals are challenged in the wake of the sexual revolution.
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The Mercenary
Title: The Mercenary
Character: Paco Roman
Released: December 20, 1968
Type: Movie
While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S. rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic peasant tells how he and a dedicated female radical fought for the soul of the guerrilla general Paco, as Mexicans threw off repressive government and all-powerful landowners in the 1910s. Tracked by the vengeful Curly, Paco liberates villages, but is tempted by social banditry's treasures, which Kowalski revels in.
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The Detective
Title: The Detective
Character: Felix Tesla
Released: May 28, 1968
Type: Movie
Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man.
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The Incident
Title: The Incident
Character: Joe Ferrone
Released: November 5, 1967
Type: Movie
Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.
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Once a Thief
Title: Once a Thief
Character: Cleveland 'Cleve' Shoenstein
Released: April 24, 1965
Type: Movie
Ex-convict Eddie and his wife, Kristine, attempt to build a new life for themselves and their daughter Kathy in San Francisco, but police officer Mike Vido is determined to send Eddie back to prison.
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Title: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Character: Major DeGuisado
Released: October 4, 1963
Type: TV
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
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Title: The Fugitive
Character: Billy Karnes
Released: September 17, 1963
Type: TV
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
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Title: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character: Candle
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: TV
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.