Joe Pesci

Joe Pesci

Born: February 9, 1943
in Newark, New Jersey, USA
Joseph Frank “Joe” Pesci (born February 9, 1943) is an American actor, comedian, singer and musician. He is known for his roles as violent mobsters, funnymen, comic foils and quirky sidekicks. Pesci has starred in a number of high profile films such as Goodfellas, Casino, Raging Bull, Once Upon a Time in America, My Cousin Vinny, Easy Money, JFK, Moonwalker, Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Lethal Weapon films. In 1990, Pesci won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the psychopathic mobster Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas, ten years after receiving a nomination in the same category for Raging Bull.

Movies for Joe Pesci...

Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
Title: Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
Character: Self
Released: December 8, 2023
Type: Movie
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Day of the Fight
Title: Day of the Fight
Released: September 5, 2023
Type: Movie
On the day of his first fight since his release from prison, a once-renowned boxer embarks on a redemptive journey through his past and present.
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Title: Bupkis
Character: Joe Larocca
Released: May 4, 2023
Type: TV
Pete Davidson attempts to work through unique family dynamics and the complexities of fame to form meaningful relationships.
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Making 'The Irishman'
Title: Making 'The Irishman'
Character: Self
Released: November 24, 2020
Type: Movie
Join legendary director Martin Scorsese, and acting icons Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino going behind the scenes of their universally acclaimed movie.
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The Collaboration Of A Lifetime: Scorsese’s Epic The Irishman
Title: The Collaboration Of A Lifetime: Scorsese’s Epic The Irishman
Character: Self
Released: January 15, 2020
Type: Movie
Join legendary director Martin Scorsese, and acting icons Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino as we go behind the scenes of their universally acclaimed movie.
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Title: The Movies That Made Us
Character: Self
Released: November 29, 2019
Type: TV
These blockbusters brought us together and gave us the time of our lives. Meet the actors, directors and industry insiders who made them happen.
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The Irishman: In Conversation
Title: The Irishman: In Conversation
Character: Self
Released: November 27, 2019
Type: Movie
Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino in conversation about The Irishman.
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The Irishman
Title: The Irishman
Character: Russell Bufalino
Released: November 1, 2019
Type: Movie
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.
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I Go Back Home - Jimmy Scott
Title: I Go Back Home - Jimmy Scott
Character: Self
Released: August 1, 2016
Type: Movie
In I GO BACK HOME - JIMMY SCOTT, we meet the German music producer Ralf Kemper, who takes on the journey to produce a record with the almost forgotten jazz icon Jimmy Scott, who is publicly unknown, but in informed quarters perceived to be a musical legend. Ralf wanted to realize this project ever since he had heard Jimmy‘s voice singing for the first time 30 years ago. But it took a personal tragedy to finally put his thoughts into action. Meeting Jimmy Scott at the age of 85 years living secluded and chairbound after an accident in Las Vegas Ralf was shocked by Jimmy‘s surprisingly bad health condition. Will he be able to put his plan into reality?
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Inside Rupert Pupkin
Title: Inside Rupert Pupkin
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 14, 2014
Type: Movie
Thelma Schoonmaker on Martin Scorsese and 'The King of Comedy'
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Behind the Gate
Title: Behind the Gate
Character: Self
Released: August 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Behind The Gate is the untold story of the Sport of Kings, American Horse Racing. Starring Joe Pesci in his first film in seven years, Oscar De La Hoya, Bob Baffert, Bobby Flay and a number of other celebrities and lovers of the sport. The film follows the careers of two horses, HOME JOURNEY and the famous I'LL HAVE ANOTHER, just as one finishes his career and another ends his. The film features behind the scene interviews, races, controversy and the truth about the longest running sport in American History.
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Rising Above the Blues: The Story of Jimmy Scott
Title: Rising Above the Blues: The Story of Jimmy Scott
Character: Self
Released: May 30, 2012
Type: Movie
About Jimmy Scott, who has had profound influence on the world of jazz and pop, but was never recognized by a wider audience. The documentary takes us behind the record production, where artists and musicians like Quincy Jones, Kenny Barron, John Pisano or Peter Erskine are telling their own story about Jimmy Scott. We get a look behind the scenery and find out how this record is carried out. This Making-Of is a moving document about an unknown icon of music history.
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Title: Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Character: (archive footage)
Released: February 4, 2012
Type: Movie
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
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Love Ranch
Title: Love Ranch
Character: Charlie Bontempo
Released: June 30, 2010
Type: Movie
Story of a couple that starts the first legal brothel in Nevada and a boxer they own a piece of.
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The Good Shepherd
Title: The Good Shepherd
Character: Joseph Palmi
Released: December 11, 2006
Type: Movie
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.
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Title: The Reichen Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: November 11, 2005
Type: TV
A list of celebrity interviews and sensational topics.
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Raging Bull: After the Fight
Title: Raging Bull: After the Fight
Character: Self
Released: February 8, 2005
Type: Movie
The fourth and final installment of a four-part documentary about the production of "Raging Bull."
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Raging Bull: Before the Fight
Title: Raging Bull: Before the Fight
Character: Self
Released: February 8, 2005
Type: Movie
The first part of a four-part documentary about the production of "Raging Bull."
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Raging Bull: Inside the Ring
Title: Raging Bull: Inside the Ring
Character: Himself
Released: February 8, 2005
Type: Movie
The second part of a four-part documentary about the production of "Raging Bull."
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Raging Bull: Outside the Ring
Title: Raging Bull: Outside the Ring
Character: Self
Released: February 8, 2005
Type: Movie
The third part of a four-part documentary about the production of "Raging Bull."
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Raging Bull: Fight Night
Title: Raging Bull: Fight Night
Character: Self
Released: August 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Takes a closer look at the production of Raging Bull. Included in it are clips from interviews with Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, director of photography Michael Chapman, and screenwriter Paul Schrader, amongst others.
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Title: The Directors
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: TV
Documentary biography series featuring profiles of various famous film directors.
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Joe Pesci: Wise Guy
Title: Joe Pesci: Wise Guy
Character: Vinny Gambini
Released: July 24, 1998
Type: Movie
Music video for the actor Joe Pesci's deadpan gangster rap song Wise Guy about a foul-mouthed no-nonsense misogynistic mobster brag rapping about how dangerous, mean and deadly he is.
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Lethal Weapon 4
Title: Lethal Weapon 4
Character: Leo Getz
Released: July 10, 1998
Type: Movie
Officers Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh of the Los Angeles Police Department must stop a dangerous crime lord from China from getting his brother out of jail.
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Gone Fishin'
Title: Gone Fishin'
Character: Joe Waters
Released: May 30, 1997
Type: Movie
Two fishing fanatics get in trouble when their fishing boat gets stolen while on a trip.
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8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
Title: 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
Character: Tommy
Released: April 18, 1997
Type: Movie
Mafia hitman Tommy Spinelli is flying to San Diego with a bag that holds eight severed heads, which he's bringing to his superiors to prove that some troublesome rival mobsters are permanently out of the picture. When his bag gets accidentally switched at the airport, Tommy must track down his duffel bag and the 8 heads it contains.
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Casino
Title: Casino
Character: Nicky Santoro
Released: November 22, 1995
Type: Movie
In early-1970s Las Vegas, Sam "Ace" Rothstein gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. At first, he's a great success in the job, but over the years, problems with his loose-cannon enforcer Nicky Santoro, his ex-hustler wife Ginger, her con-artist ex Lester Diamond and a handful of corrupt politicians put Sam in ever-increasing danger.
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With Honors
Title: With Honors
Character: Simon Wilder
Released: April 29, 1994
Type: Movie
Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who might be the guy to school the young man in life.
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Jimmy Hollywood
Title: Jimmy Hollywood
Character: Jimmy Alto
Released: March 30, 1994
Type: Movie
Jimmy Alto is an actor wannabe who stumbles into the role of a lifetime. He becomes a vigilante crime-fighter, aided by his sidekick William, who has suffered a head wound and has problems with short-term memory. Jimmy's vigilante alter ego soon becomes a media wonder--but Jimmy remains a total unknown and his long-suffering girl friend Lorraine is getting fed up with the whole situation.
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A Bronx Tale
Title: A Bronx Tale
Character: Carmine
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.
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Title: The Pink Panther
Released: September 12, 1993
Type: TV
The Pink Panther is a 1993 animated television series, featuring the titular Pink Panther in various shorts intermixed with adventures of the Inspector, Ant and Aardvark, and numerous other characters from the original 1960s and 1970s cartoons. The panther is now voiced in every segment he appears in, now with a funky American accent rather than his original sophisticated English voice from two early cartoons to appeal to younger audiences.
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Title: The John Larroquette Show
Character: Joe Pesci
Released: September 2, 1993
Type: TV
The John Larroquette Show is an American television sitcom .The show was a vehicle for John Larroquette following his run as Dan Fielding on Night Court. The series takes place in a seedy bus terminal in St. Louis, Missouri and originally focused on the somewhat broken people who worked the night shift, and in particular, the lead character's battle with alcoholism.
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Title: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Character: Harry Lyme
Released: November 15, 1992
Type: Movie
Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, he's determined to foil their plans to rob a toy store on Christmas Eve.
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The Public Eye
Title: The Public Eye
Character: Leon Bernstein
Released: October 16, 1992
Type: Movie
A crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.
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Title: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Character: Self - Guest
Released: May 25, 1992
Type: TV
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is an American late-night talk show hosted by Jay Leno that initially aired from May 25, 1992 to May 29, 2009, and resumed production on March 1, 2010. The fourth incarnation of the Tonight Show franchise made its debut on May 25, 1992, three days following Johnny Carson's retirement as host of the program. The program originates from NBC Studios in Burbank, California, and is broadcast Monday through Friday at 11:35 PM in the Eastern and Pacific time zones. Unlike Carson or his predecessor Jack Paar, Leno only once utilized a guest host, preferring to host the series by himself. On April 26, 1999, the show began broadcasting in 1080i HDTV, becoming the first American nightly talk show to be shot in high definition. The show is shot in 16:9 aspect ratio. The series, which followed the same basic format as that of his predecessors, ran until May 29, 2009, after which Leno was succeeded by Conan O'Brien. NBC signed Leno to a new deal for a nightly talk show in the 10:00 pm ET timeslot. The primetime series, titled The Jay Leno Show, debuted on September 14, 2009, following a similar format to the Leno incarnation of Tonight.
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Lethal Weapon 3
Title: Lethal Weapon 3
Character: Leo Getz
Released: May 15, 1992
Type: Movie
Archetypal buddy cops Riggs and Murtaugh are back for another round of high-stakes action, this time setting their collective sights on bringing down a former Los Angeles police lieutenant turned black market weapons dealer. Lorna Cole joins as the beautiful yet hardnosed internal affairs sergeant who catches Riggs's eye.
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My Cousin Vinny
Title: My Cousin Vinny
Character: Vincent 'Vinny' Gambini
Released: March 13, 1992
Type: Movie
Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend, to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!
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JFK
Title: JFK
Character: David Ferrie
Released: December 20, 1991
Type: Movie
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
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The Super
Title: The Super
Character: Louie Kritski
Released: October 4, 1991
Type: Movie
Louie Kritski is a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ghetto apartment that he is threatened with jail time. The judge gives him another option -- he must live in his rat-infested hell hole until he brings it up to liveable standards.
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Home Alone
Title: Home Alone
Character: Harry Lyme
Released: November 16, 1990
Type: Movie
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin's house, the plucky kid stands ready to defend his territory. By planting booby traps galore, adorably mischievous Kevin stands his ground as his frantic mother attempts to race home before Christmas Day.
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GoodFellas
Title: GoodFellas
Character: Tommy DeVito
Released: September 12, 1990
Type: Movie
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
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Betsy's Wedding
Title: Betsy's Wedding
Character: Oscar Henner
Released: June 22, 1990
Type: Movie
Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece, sending his wife Lola into a financial panic.
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Martin Scorsese Directs
Title: Martin Scorsese Directs
Character: Self
Released: June 16, 1990
Type: Movie
Providing behind the scenes footage of the director on set with clips from his own films, Martin Scorsese Directs depicts to riveting effect the way Scorsese brings the written story to life on the big screen. Additional interviews with the likes of Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, Thelma Schoonmaker, the director’s own parents, and others build a perception of Scorsese that not everybody knows.
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Catchfire
Title: Catchfire
Character: Leo Carelli
Released: April 3, 1990
Type: Movie
A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.
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Catchfire
Title: Catchfire
Character: Leo Carelli (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1990
Type: Movie
A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.
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Lethal Weapon 2
Title: Lethal Weapon 2
Character: Leo Getz
Released: July 7, 1989
Type: Movie
In the opening chase, Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh stumble across a trunk full of Krugerrands. They follow the trail to a South African diplomat who's using his immunity to conceal a smuggling operation. When he plants a bomb under Murtaugh's toilet, the action explodes!
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Title: Tales from the Crypt
Character: Vic / Jack
Released: June 10, 1989
Type: TV
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
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Moonwalker
Title: Moonwalker
Character: Mr. Big
Released: October 29, 1988
Type: Movie
A movie that starts out with the "Man in the Mirror" music video, it then changes to a montage of video clips of Michael's career. Next comes a parody of his Bad video by children, and then Michael is chased by fans in a fantasy sequence. 2 more videos are shown, and then a movie in which Michael plays a hero with magical powers. In it he is chased by drug dealer Mr. Big and saves three children. Videos included in the movie are "Smooth Criminal" and "Come Together".
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Title: The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Character: John Dos Passos
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted by various inner demons -- including his father's suicide -- Hemingway serves in World War I, marries four times, and finds creative support from Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and other expatriates living in 1920s Paris.
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Man on Fire
Title: Man on Fire
Character: David
Released: September 4, 1987
Type: Movie
Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swanky villa on the shores of Lake Como.
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Title: Half Nelson
Character: Rocky Nelson
Released: March 24, 1985
Type: TV
Rocky Nelson is a former New York cop who is trying to make it as an actor in Hollywood. However, like most actor-wannabes, he is still looking for his big break, and his lack of stature doesn't endear him to the directors. So, he is currently working for Beverly Hills Patrol, a private security agency that caters to the needs of the Hollywood elite and who also try to keep things quiet for their clients. And every now and then Rocky comes across a case which requires him to slip into his old cop mold, which doesn't thrill his boss or the police lieutenant that he encounters.
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Half Nelson
Title: Half Nelson
Character: Rocky Nelson
Released: March 24, 1985
Type: Movie
Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to Hollywood decides to try his luck out as an actor. However, when he gets there, the directors think that he is too short to be an actor. He is then approach by someone who offers him a job at a Hollywood security agency, cause he would fit in there being an ex-cop and while working there he could come in contact with some Hollywood heavy-weights who could give him the break he needs. And at the same he gets to live in Dean Martin's guest-house.
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All for the Moral Majority!
Title: All for the Moral Majority!
Character: Corrado Parisi
Released: December 19, 1984
Type: Movie
The incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as usual, very strongly. He orders numberless arrests. But the reaction of counterparts won't take long. In fact his strong energetic manners, drive him unintentionally on the opposite situation. Who is the real guilty the judge or the corrupted Italian society?
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Once Upon a Time in America
Title: Once Upon a Time in America
Character: Frankie Monaldi
Released: May 23, 1984
Type: Movie
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
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Easy Money
Title: Easy Money
Character: Nicky Cerone
Released: August 19, 1983
Type: Movie
To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.
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Eureka
Title: Eureka
Character: Mayakofsky
Released: May 1, 1983
Type: Movie
An Alaskan gold prospector lives in luxury with his family on an island which gangsters want.
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Dear Mr. Wonderful
Title: Dear Mr. Wonderful
Character: Ruby Dennis
Released: August 24, 1982
Type: Movie
Ruby Dennis is an middle-aged man with an unfulfilled ambition as a singer. As he begins to pursue that ambition, his family falls apart.
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I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
Title: I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
Character: Roger
Released: March 5, 1982
Type: Movie
An adaptation of Barbara Gordon's nonfiction account of her addiction to Valium.
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Raging Bull
Title: Raging Bull
Character: Joey LaMotta
Released: November 14, 1980
Type: Movie
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
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Short Eyes
Title: Short Eyes
Character: Other Inmate (uncredited)
Released: September 28, 1977
Type: Movie
A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City’s infamous Tombs prison. When the other inmates in his cell block find out what he is charged with, life becomes extremely difficult for him.
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Family Enforcer
Title: Family Enforcer
Character: Joe
Released: October 29, 1976
Type: Movie
A kid from the neighborhood goes to work for the Mafia as a collector.
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Title: Saturday Night Live
Character: Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1975
Type: TV
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.
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Title: Saturday Night Live
Character: Self - Host
Released: October 11, 1975
Type: TV
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.
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Hey, Let's Twist!
Title: Hey, Let's Twist!
Character: Peppermint Club Dancer
Released: December 31, 1961
Type: Movie
Film about the creation of New York's famous Peppermint Lounge, where the Twist became a dance craze.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.