Tony Musante
Actor
- Born
- June 30, 1936 · Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
- Died
- November 26, 2013 (age 77)
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.
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Known for
We Own the Night
October 12, 2007
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
February 27, 1970
The Deep End of the Ocean
March 12, 1999
The Yards
April 27, 2000
The Mercenary
December 20, 1968
The Pope of Greenwich Village
June 22, 1984
The Incident
November 5, 1967
The Detective
May 28, 1968
The Anonymous Venetian
September 30, 1970
The Last Run
July 7, 1971
The Grissom Gang
May 28, 1971
Once a Thief
April 24, 1965
Acting35
- 2016FantastiCozzi as (archive footage)
- 2013Ice as Mr. DeMartino
- 2007We Own the Night as Jack Shapiro
- 2004Promessa d'amore as Amilcare
- 2003Life as It Is as Professore
- 2003Italian Kings Of B as Self
- 2000A Kiss in the Dark
- 2000The Yards as Seymour Korman
- 1999The Deep End of the Ocean as Angelo
- 1998Exiled as Don Giancarlo Uzielli