Joe Cortese

Joe Cortese

Born: February 22, 1949
in Paterson, New Jersey, USA
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Joseph Cortese (born 22 February 1949) is an American actor who has been in Evilspeak and American History X. He was married to Kim Delaney from 1989 to 1994.

Movies for Joe Cortese...

Scarlett
Title: Scarlett
Released: December 31, 2021
Type: Movie
Angelina Ellington is a black investigative reporter who despises the mob. She stumbles upon a dead body that leads her through a labyrinth of tunnels that ultimately end face to face with one of the largest Sicilian mob families in the East Coast.
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Title: The Loudest Voice
Character: Roger Stone
Released: June 30, 2019
Type: TV
The rise and fall of Fox News founder Roger Ailes, focusing primarily on the past decade in which Ailes arguably became the Republican Party’s de facto leader, while flashing back to defining events in his life.
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Making a Deal with the Devil
Title: Making a Deal with the Devil
Character: Frankie
Released: June 20, 2019
Type: Movie
A fascinating and dramatic tale of a behind the scenes plot developed by the FBI as they work secretly with the mob to eradicate corruption and crime in USA.
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The Last Big Save
Title: The Last Big Save
Character: Frank Zimmer
Released: May 18, 2019
Type: Movie
A professional hockey player who is only happy when he is miserable signs a long-term contract that covers his entire career only to ruin it in his first year due to substance abuse and alcoholism. He rides his good luck in the final month of the final year of his contract when he gets a last chance at redemption in the seventh game of the finals.
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Green Book
Title: Green Book
Character: Gio Loscudo
Released: November 16, 2018
Type: Movie
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.
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Doobious Sources
Title: Doobious Sources
Character: Magnus Martindale
Released: January 2, 2017
Type: Movie
A pair of weed-loving, free lance video journalists find themselves targeted by a mark they slandered in one of their exposes.
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Rules Don't Apply
Title: Rules Don't Apply
Character: Mobster
Released: November 23, 2016
Type: Movie
It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes' behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.
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The Bronx Bull
Title: The Bronx Bull
Character: Vito Lazio
Released: June 13, 2016
Type: Movie
A combination "before the rage" and "after the rage" of world middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta's tumultuous life and times.
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Title: Perception
Character: Paolo Genardi
Released: July 9, 2012
Type: TV
Dr. Daniel Pierce, a neuroscientist and professor, is recruited to help the federal government crack difficult cases. His intimate knowledge of human behavior and masterful understanding of the mind give him an extraordinary ability to read people, but his eccentric view of the world and less-than-stellar social skills can often interfere with his work.
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Title: Fairly Legal
Character: Danny Sabbatino
Released: January 20, 2011
Type: TV
Kate Reed is a firm believer that justice can always be found – even if it's not always in the courtroom. Once a lawyer at her family's esteemed San Francisco firm, Kate's frustration with the legal system led her to a new career as a mediator. Thanks to her innate understanding of human nature, thorough legal knowledge, and wry sense of humor, Kate is a natural when it comes to dispute resolution. Except, it seems, when it comes to conflicts in her own life.
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Saravia
Title: Saravia
Character: Self
Released: January 30, 2008
Type: Movie
A spiritual journey into the life of painter, writer and composer Mauricio Saravia.
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Go Go Tales
Title: Go Go Tales
Character: Danny Cash
Released: May 23, 2007
Type: Movie
A financial struggle between owners of a go-go club threatens its future.
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Shut Up and Shoot!
Title: Shut Up and Shoot!
Character: Spencer Spector
Released: June 27, 2006
Type: Movie
A movie producer hatches a scheme to have an actor (Silvio Pollio) kill his fellow filmmakers.
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Title: Bones
Character: Lou Mackey
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: TV
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
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Title: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Character: Sal
Released: August 4, 2005
Type: TV
Four egocentric friends run a neighborhood Irish pub in Philadelphia and try to find their way through the adult world of work and relationships. Unfortunately, their warped views and precarious judgments often lead them to trouble, creating a myriad of uncomfortable situations that usually only get worse before they get better.
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Against the Ropes
Title: Against the Ropes
Character: Irving Abel
Released: February 20, 2004
Type: Movie
A fictional story inspired by North America's most famous female boxing promoter, Jackie Kallen. Her struggle to survive and succeed in a male dominated sport.
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Luckytown
Title: Luckytown
Character: Sarni
Released: August 4, 2000
Type: Movie
A young woman goes in search of her father, a professional gambler who abandoned her years before. Along the way, she finds herself at odds with her boyfriend who wants nothing but a carefree lifestyle.
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Malevolence
Title: Malevolence
Character: Billy Bob Jones
Released: February 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A young prisoner tells his story to an FBI agent. How unjust judicial system, systematic abuse inside and political corruption and machinations outside turn someone who killed in defense into a hardened criminal.
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Young Hearts Unlimited
Title: Young Hearts Unlimited
Character: Sardini
Released: December 27, 1998
Type: Movie
Children of broken homes get in over their heads when they set up a dating service for their single parents.
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American History X
Title: American History X
Character: Rasmussen
Released: July 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.
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Nowhere Land
Title: Nowhere Land
Character: Luke Santelli
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Dean sees mafia boss Santelli whack an FBI infiltrator and is relocated to a remote cabin in the Sierras for protection. While Santelli's crew tries to locate him, Dean gets company from the beautiful Monica.
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Title: The Sentinel
Character: Jack Pendergrast
Released: March 20, 1996
Type: TV
The Sentinel is a Canadian-produced television series. In the jungles of peru, the fight for survival heightened his senses. Now, Detective Jim Ellison is a sentinel in the fight for justice. Anthropologist Blair Sandburg works side by side with Jim, helping him develop these senses.
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The Last Word
Title: The Last Word
Character: Jimmy
Released: August 27, 1995
Type: Movie
A journalist with solid mob connections falls for a stripper with a dark past.
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Beauty and the Bandit
Title: Beauty and the Bandit
Character: Slade
Released: April 3, 1994
Type: Movie
Bandit, always willing to help a lady, bites off more than he can chew when he helps a lady who is on the run from the mob. Nuns and nudists cross paths with a trucker hijacked by a beauty on the run from a mobster.
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Illicit Dreams
Title: Illicit Dreams
Character: Daniel Davis
Released: January 11, 1994
Type: Movie
A man and a woman sharing a psychic link meet and fall in love, but the woman's influential and powerful husband stands in their way.
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Born to Run
Title: Born to Run
Character: Phil
Released: August 2, 1993
Type: Movie
An outlaw drag racer (Richard Grieco) tries to save his brother (Jay Acovone) from a crime boss (Joe Cortese) in Brooklyn.
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Title: Lady Boss
Character: Santino Bonnatti
Released: October 11, 1992
Type: TV
A miniseries based on the Jackie Collins novel "Lady Boss." In this sequel to "Chances," Lucky Santangelo returns to Hollywood determined to become its most powerful woman.
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Exclusive
Title: Exclusive
Character: Oliver
Released: October 4, 1992
Type: Movie
The famous TV journalist Marcy Singer receives an anonymous phone call that orders her to the Blue Moon bar. When she arrives, she finds 6 corpses. Urged by her new boss, she investigates the case, and soon learns about evidence against her own husband Reed.
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Ruby
Title: Ruby
Character: Louie Vitali
Released: March 27, 1992
Type: Movie
Fact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how they become involved in a conspiracy to kill J.F.K.
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To Protect and Serve
Title: To Protect and Serve
Character: Kazinski
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A rookie cop becomes the chief suspect in the killing of some of his crooked cohorts.
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Dragonfight
Title: Dragonfight
Character: Baybington
Released: June 5, 1990
Type: Movie
In the future, large corporations earn millions of dollars by staging gladiatorial fights to the death that are shown on worldwide television. One day, however, a fighter who is scheduled to hunt and kill an opponent in the Arizona desert decides he's had enough, and makes a run for it. His opponent is instructed to track him down and kill him.
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The Closer
Title: The Closer
Character: John Morgan
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Aiello plays a powerful salesman whose world is falling apart.
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Title: Something Is Out There
Character: Jack Breslin
Released: October 21, 1988
Type: TV
A short-lived weekly series based on the miniseries of the same name.
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C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf
Title: C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf
Character: Doc Burkholder
Released: May 23, 1988
Type: Movie
The Counter Assault Tactical (C.A.T.) Squad investigates a spy who is supplying plutonium to the Sjambok, a racist South African paramilitary group that is working on a nuclear bomb. The American government, too, is investigating Sjambok, using the top-secret spy plane Python Wolf. When one of the members of the C.A.T. Squad is shot down over South Africa during another mission, his squad leader undertakes a rescue operation to bring his friend back home.
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Title: Something Is Out There
Character: Jack Breslin
Released: May 8, 1988
Type: TV
Two police officers investigate a series of brutal murders in which the victims have had bodily organs removed. When one of them questions a young woman who has been seen at the crime scenes, it turns out she is an alien from an interstellar prison ship and that the murders have been committed by a powerful xenomorphic alien which had escaped.
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Deadly Illusion
Title: Deadly Illusion
Character: Detective Paul Lefferts
Released: October 16, 1987
Type: Movie
A private eye hired to kill a man's wife warns her instead and then finds both are impostors.
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C.A.T. Squad
Title: C.A.T. Squad
Character: John 'Doc' Burkholder
Released: July 27, 1986
Type: Movie
When terrorists start killing scientists who are working on NATO's laser defense program, an elite team, the Counter Assault Tactical (C.A.T.) Squad, is brought in to stop the killers.
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Title: If Tomorrow Comes
Character: Joe Romano
Released: March 16, 1986
Type: TV
Tracy Whitney was in love, pregnant and engaged to marry into one of America's best family. And then, with one phone call, she lost everything. After 5 years of unjust imprisonment, Tracy emerges from prison a new woman. Cunning. Ruthless. Determined to survive. But there is one man as formidable as she is. As their paths crisscross, they eventually become daredevil partners in an adventure that climaxes their criminal careers.
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Letting Go
Title: Letting Go
Character: Neil
Released: May 11, 1985
Type: Movie
Letting Go stars John Ritter as a widower and Sharon Gless as a lonely unmarried woman. They meet during a group-therapy session. Romance is inevitable, but the road to true happiness is pockmarked by a series of comic complications. Advertised as a straight romantic drama, Letting Go is actually more akin to the screwball comedies of the 1930s, with a strong satirical bent regarding "behavior modification" theories. The made-for-TV film debuted May 11, 1985.
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Brothers-in-Law
Title: Brothers-in-Law
Character: Mickey Gubiacci
Released: April 28, 1985
Type: Movie
T.K. Kenny and Mickey Gubiacci are a highway patrolman and a trucker respectively. Now the two of them don't get along and have nothing in common except for the fact that they are both married to the daughters of Winston Goodhue, and that they don't like him. When Kenny divorces his wife, Goodhue makes it difficult for him to see his son, Win, and would like to keep him away from Win. Goodhue eventually gets Kenny thrown out of the department. Mickey, who has been hauling some illegal loads for Goodhue is arrested and Goodhue convinces his daughter to dump him. And Goodhue takes away his truck. Eventually, Kenny and Mickey get together and decide to get back at Goodhue. And the best way they decide to do that is to throw a monkey wrench into his new development project.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Lt. Jerry Marino
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Title: Tales from the Darkside
Character: Nicholas Casavin
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist. The series' episodes spanned the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and some episodes featured elements of black comedy or more lighthearted themes.
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Title: Hunter
Character: Marco Brokaw
Released: September 18, 1984
Type: TV
Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.
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Gone Are the Dayes
Title: Gone Are the Dayes
Character: Frank Delgado
Released: May 6, 1984
Type: Movie
After the Days family witnesses a gang shooting in a Japanese restaurant, the police persuades them to testify against mobster Delgado. Detective Mitchell gets the job to hide the four until the trial. But how shall he keep two nervous adults and their two teenage kids under control?
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Monsignor
Title: Monsignor
Character: Ludovico 'Lodo' Varese
Released: October 22, 1982
Type: Movie
The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market to raise money for the Vatican, he also falls in love with a young French nun.
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Computercide
Title: Computercide
Character: Lisa Korter
Released: August 1, 1982
Type: Movie
The year is 1995 and Michael Stringer is the only private eye left on Earth. One day, he is assigned by a woman to investigate Eden Isle, a complex for people who want a perfect life started by an industrialist named Korter. Interestingly, Korter is found on a beach and is 20 years younger than he was before. When he gets into the complex, he is caught in a web of mystery.
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Evilspeak
Title: Evilspeak
Character: Reverend Jameson
Released: August 22, 1981
Type: Movie
Bullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.
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Worlds Apart
Title: Worlds Apart
Character: Ram
Released: October 17, 1980
Type: Movie
After fighting the Arab armies, Assaf, an Israeli soldier, falls in love with an American living in the Arab district of Jerusalem. One day, he believes he recognizes a wanted terrorist.
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Windows
Title: Windows
Character: Bob Luffrono
Released: January 18, 1980
Type: Movie
Emily Hollander becomes the subject of a lesbian obsession at the hands of Andrea Glassen, her next-door neighbour.
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Family Enforcer
Title: Family Enforcer
Character: Jerry Bolanti
Released: October 29, 1976
Type: Movie
A kid from the neighborhood goes to work for the Mafia as a collector.
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Jessi's Girls
Title: Jessi's Girls
Character: Baldry (as Joseph Cortese)
Released: April 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A young Mormon couple is attacked by a bunch of outlaws. They kill the man and the woman is raped several times and left for dead in the desert. With the last ounce of her strength she gets to the hut of an old hermit who nurses her back to health and teaches her how to shoot. The woman then frees three female criminals and seeks vengeance on the outlaws.
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Title: Lotsa Luck
Character: Mr. Smith
Released: September 10, 1973
Type: TV
Lotsa Luck is an American sitcom that aired during the 1973-74 television season. The series stars Dom DeLuise as bachelor Stanley Belmont who lives with his bossy mother, his sister Olive and her unemployed husband, Arthur. Jack Knight stars as Stanley's best friend, Bummy. Lotsa Luck is based on the British London Weekend Television series On the Buses.
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Arizona Slim
Title: Arizona Slim
Character: Reggie
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Plot unknown but described as a rock 'n' roll western. Shot in Times Square during New Years Eve of 1973. Possibly unreleased.
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Object of Desire
Title: Object of Desire
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A beautiful young soap opera star is stalked and terrorized by an obsessive admirer.