Tony Darrow
Also Known As: Anthony Borgese
Biography: Tony Darrow (born Anthony Borgese; October 1, 1938) is an Italian-American actor. Darrow was born in the East New York section of Brooklyn. Darrow had plenty of opportunity to observe would-be mobsters and their attitudes while growing up in his neighborhood in Brooklyn. As a teenager, he gravitated towards show business, entering and winning talent shows while working odd jobs. After ten years of singing in nightclubs, Darrow received an offer to appear in what turned out to be a cult film, Street Trash in which he played a mobster. Several months after Street Trash, Darrow was contacted by the film director Martin Scorsese. It turned out that Scorsese had seen Street Trash and wanted him to audition for a role in Goodfellas. He was successful and was cast as the owner of the Bamboo Lounge, Sonny. Darrow was also in the Woody Allen films Bullets over Broadway, Mighty Aphrodite, Deconstructing Harry, Small Time Crooks and Sweet and Lowdown. In 1999, Darrow played a large role in Analyze This with Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal. The following year, he appeared in Mickey Blue Eyes with Hugh Grant, and got another big role as mobster Larry Barese in the HBO hit series The Sopranos, which he was on for the entire series run (1999–2007). More recently, Darrow starred in the independent film Lynch Mob.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: October 01, 1938
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Male
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GoodFellas
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-12
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Small Time Crooks
Overview: A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-19
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Street Trash
Overview: A group of hobos begin melting into multicolored piles of goo after drinking sixty-year-old liquor. At the same time, the psychotic Vietnam War vet who rules the hobo camp snaps and begins killing at random. Two brothers set out to stop the liquor and the killer.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-22
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Sweet and Lowdown
Overview: In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-03
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Kill the Irishman
Overview: Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-10
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The North End
Overview: A young filmmaker living in Boston's Italian district, the North End, wants to make a film about the neighborhood. He needs the blessing of a local celebrity, famous for playing gangsters in movies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-05
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Killin Smallz
Overview: A mob family that is not earning like they did in the past comes up with crazy idea after watching the movie, Stealing A Survivor, to kidnap someone famous for ransom. After picking their target, Tom Guiry known as Smalls from the Sandlot, they enlist the help of the director of Stealing A Survivor, Ray Martin, to consult them on how to kidnap a celebrity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-08
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Micki
Overview: Sixteen-year-old Micki never met her parents. Raised by her ex-gangster grandfather Pops and crazy Uncle Sal, she develops a scheme to set her family up for life. A simple robbery, a violent loan shark, and a ticking clock. What could go wrong?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-26
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Analyze This
Overview: Countless wiseguy films are spoofed in this film that centers on the neuroses and angst of a powerful Mafia racketeer who suffers from panic attacks. When Paul Vitti needs help dealing with his role in the "family," unlucky shrink Dr. Ben Sobel is given just days to resolve Vitti's emotional crisis and turn him into a happy, well-adjusted gangster.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-05
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Mickey Blue Eyes
Overview: An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "favors" would be asked of him.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-16
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The Families Feud
Overview: A mob boss must fend off repeated assassination attempts from a rival boss while battling backwoods Bigfoot hunting hillbillies who've captured his Capo and crew.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-16
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Men Lie
Overview: Swearing fidelity to his fiancée, two-faced Scott attempts to bed every woman who crosses his path.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-13
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Who Do I Gotta Kill?
Overview: A struggling writer takes a job for his mobster uncle in order to obtain first-hand material for a book on conspiracy plots and the JFK assassination. They often say that a good writer lives what he writes, but what happens when the life that the writer is living could likely get him killed?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-23
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Friends and Romans
Overview: A group of lifelong mob movie extras mount a production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in their local Staten Island theater in order to finally get some speaking roles. But the theater is the secret hideout of a real-life gangster who fancies himself an actor, and whom the FBI are hunting for the recent murder of a Broadway producer. The Feds insert their own undercover agent to audition for the role of Cassius, seeking to determine who is the real gangster among a cast of make-believe criminals. All the while, the oblivious cast seek only to prove to themselves, their families, and friends that they are more than just extras.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-17
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The Uncle Gerry Show
Overview: Set in 1978, "The Uncle Gerry Show" chronicles the chaos of the most successful regional late night entertainer. Gerry Rocco is adored by all. His manager Donnie books the hottest acts of the 1960's and 1970's. Gerry struggles dealing with the temptations of fame, the time period, and a business run with his family, as a budding Italian film director captures the reality of Uncle Gerry's life. In the pilot episode John Lennon and Yoko Ono go head to head with Uncle Gerry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-06
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Swirlee
Overview: Tells the story of Mr. Softee, a mutant hybrid with an ice cream cone for a head, who was the victim of the anti-miscarriage drug "Nodroppinum" which changed the pregnant mother's child into whatever food she craved at the time (a parody of the Thyladimide scandal from the 60s.) Softee was the head of an ice cream company, until he was forced out of business by the artificial ice cream mafia, led by Don Tofutti.
Genres: Comedy Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-06
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The Brawler
Overview: The true story of underdog boxer, Chuck Wepner, who gets a shot to fight the champ, Muhammed Ali.
Genres: Crime Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-18
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Made in Chinatown
Overview: A young Chinese nobody sets out to become a Don in the Italian Mafia. It turns out that earning respect, finding love, and discovering his identity doesn't come so easy. He'll have to fight his way to the top.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-10
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Bullets Over Broadway
Overview: After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a psychiatrist—but not only is she a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist—she's a dreadful actress. David puts up with the leading man who is a compulsive eater, the grand dame who wants her part jazzed up, and Olive's interfering hitman/bodyguard—but, eventually he must decide whether art or life is more important.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-14
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Lynch Mob
Overview: The rural town of Lynchburg Georgia holds a dark secret. A century old curse has condemned the citizens to a diet of human flesh. Unable to leave the city limits the town folks must lure unsuspecting travelers to their quaint town where they soon become the menu item of choice.
Genres: Horror Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-18
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Offstage Elements
Overview: An aspiring heavy metal band's lead singer returns to the rock scene as a devout "born-again" Christian after his cancer goes into remission. The band's members struggle with this drastic transformation while dealing with their own downward spirals.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-13
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Crooked Lines
Overview: Johnny, Chris, Sal, and Joe are four petty crooks thrown together for the job of a lifetime. $1 million in mob money being held at a delicatessen for pick-up seems like an easy score until the bumbling quartet collaborate to mess the whole thing up. Suddenly the Brooklyn mafia and police are on their trail and the fool proof plan now looks like a death trap.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-18
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Mighty Aphrodite
Overview: When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda Ash, a kindhearted prostitute and porn star, Lenny is determined to reform her immoral lifestyle. A Greek chorus chimes in to relate the plot to Greek mythology in this quirky comedy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-13
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The Good Policeman
Overview: Isaac Seidel is a highly unconventional New York police-commissioner. He is well-abled in dealing with trouble at the headquarter, the maffia and situations in the streets. His loyalty to his profession and the city he so loves make him do the utmost to solve the problems, even if it means he has to bend the rules.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Celebrity
Overview: The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one lavish party to another and engages in numerous empty romances, he starts to doubt the worth of his work. Meanwhile, top TV producer Tony falls for Robin and introduces her to the world of celebrity.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-07
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Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
Overview: For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, the fight was on to see who could follow him. Jackie Presser was the son of a long time union board member and when he retired, Jackie was elevated to one of the most powerful position in the country; President of the Teamsters Union.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-12
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On Seventh Avenue
Overview: A rising designer leaves a top fashion house to rescue her retired father's New York apparel business.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-10
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Deconstructing Harry
Overview: Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-12
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Searching for Bobby D
Overview: Four young filmmakers raise money for their project by telling potential investors that DeNiro is on board. Now they have to find him...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-14
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Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn
Overview: After being released from prison, Bobby goes back to the mob connected streets. When forced to make a life altering decision the truth is revealed that he was too blind to see.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-21
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