Tony Musante
Known For
Acting
Born
1936-06-30 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Died
2013-11-26
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.
Most Known For
Oz
as Nino Schibetta
The Rockford Files
as Charlie Harris
The Fugitive
as Billy Karnes
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Candle
The Equalizer
as John Parker
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Major DeGuisado
Police Story
Acapulco H.E.A.T.
as Rocco Santora
100 Centre Street
as Frank Esposito
We Own the Night
as Jack Shapiro
FantastiCozzi
as (archive footage)
Toma
as Det. David Toma
The Yards
as Seymour Korman
The Deep End of the Ocean
as Angelo
Traffic
as Alex Edmonds
The Anonymous Venetian
as Enrico
Gladiator of Pompeii
as Alpio
Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder
as Vittorio
Medical Story
The Seventh Scroll
as Duraid Al Simma