Tony Musante
Also Known As: Peter Salerno, Anthony Peter Musante Jr.
Biography: 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tony Musante, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Birthday: June 30, 1936
Deathday: November 26, 2013
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Gender: Male
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We Own the Night
Overview: A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-12
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-02-27
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The Deep End of the Ocean
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-12
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The Pope of Greenwich Village
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-22
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Once a Thief
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-24
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A Kiss in the Dark
Overview: 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.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-05-31
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The Detective
Overview: Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-28
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The Incident
Overview: Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-05
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The Mercenary
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-12-20
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The Yards
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-27
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Break Up
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-11-07
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The Last Run
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-07
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The Anonymous Venetian
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-09-30
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The Grissom Gang
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-28
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Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley
Overview: This docudrama follows the court-martial of the title character, the man held responsible for the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
Genres: Drama Crime War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-12
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Spy Connection
Overview: 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?
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-01-14
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Love Circle
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-04-13
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The Trap
Overview: A woman becomes obsessed with a man she can't have, and carries the torch for more than 15 years.
Genres: Horror Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-09-11
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High Ice
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-07
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Toma
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-21
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The Desperate Miles
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-05
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Promessa d'amore
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Goodbye & Amen
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-12-23
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The Pisciotta Case
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-11-23
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My Husband Is Missing
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-05
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Deep Family Secrets
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-15
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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Overview: Six buddies spend the summer together at a Malibu beach house after each has separated from his wife at about the same time.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-05
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Exiled
Overview: 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.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-08
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Rearview Mirror
Overview: 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...
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-16
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Ice
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-18
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The Repenter
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-11-15
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FantastiCozzi
Overview: A feature-length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi and his obsession with Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-21
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Gladiator of Pompeii
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-22
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La vita come viene
Overview: Max believes that existence is just a game, and his wife will have the arduous task of bringing him back to reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-05-09
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Nowhere to Hide
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-05
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Italian Kings Of B
Overview: Documentary on Italian genre cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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