Joe Viterelli
Joseph "Joe" Viterelli (March 10, 1937 – January 28, 2004) was an Italian American actor known for his mafioso-orientated character roles. Joe Viterelli was born to Italian immigrants in Bronx, New York. Before Viterelli became an actor, he was a successful businessman in New York City. He had befriended director Leo Penn (actor Sean Penn's father), who initially tried but failed to persuade Viterelli to pursue acting because of his unique and typically Italian looks. Some years later, Sean Penn approached Viterelli and asked him to try out for a part as a favor: Viterelli did and went on to appear in State of Grace and then in over 40 movies. Joe Viterelli became an icon of Mafia-Movies. Viterelli died on January 28, 2004 in Las Vegas, Nevada due to a severe stomach hemorrhage, a complication of just-completed heart surgery. He was 66 years old. His last role was as a mobster in a 2004 Super Bowl ad for Staples, Inc. and his last movie role was as Jelly in Harold Ramis’ Analyze That.
After taking his dying father's advice, Hal dates only the embodiments of female physical...
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U.S. Marshall John Kruger erases the identities of people enrolled in the Witness Protection...
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Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is...
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Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects...
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Analyze This
as JellyCountless wiseguy films are spoofed in this film that centers on the neuroses and angst of a...
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Out to Sea
as MickeyCare-free Charlie cons his widower brother-in-law Herb into an expenses-paid luxury cruise in...
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Analyze That
as JellyThe mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out....
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Bullets Over Broadway
as Nick ValentiAfter young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti,...
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The Crossing Guard
as JoeUnable to move on from the loss of his daughter, Freddy, now a shell of the person he was...
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See Spot Run
as GinoA drug sniffing agent canine is a target for an assassin boss so the FBI calls Witness...
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Jane Austen's Mafia!
as ClamatoTakeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.
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An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain...
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Mobsters
as Joe ProfaciThe story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street...
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Serving Sara
as Fat CharlieWhen Sara is served divorce papers while she is in New York, she is stunned. Not about to lose...
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Heaven's Prisoners
as Didi GiancanoA hardened New Orleans cop, Dave Robicheaux, finally tosses in the badge and settles into life...
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Somewhere on the fringe of society, ten dangerous strangers are on a road to Red's Desert Oasis...
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Ruby
as Joseph ValachiFact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how...
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Hitman's Run
as Jimmy / Howard SussmanA former mob hitman, now in witness protection, is forced to come out of retirement when his...
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What She Doesn't Know
as Fat Tommy CarducciAn idealistic law school graduate comes to work in the New York D.A.'s office. Her first case...
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In the Shadow of a Killer
as Gino MarcheseCourtroom drama involving the mafia inspired by true events.
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Wannabes
as SantoWhen two brothers Angelo and the younger Paulie, get into a fight,it's broken up by the local...
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The Frightening Frammis
as UgolinoWe meet our anti-hero, grafter Mitch Allison, disheveled and walking by the side of the road. He...
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The Cure for Boredom
as Fat Tony RagoniSex, love and murder abound when two guys, two waitresses and a group of mobsters meet.
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Black Rose of Harlem
as CostanzaA tragic love story set against the turbulent backdrop of the 1920's Chicago jazz clubs....
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Looking For Lola
as Salvatore GrecoLooking for Lola is a comical look at the world of relationships and highlights just how far we...
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The Commish
as uncreditedTony Scali is a former Brooklyn cop now the Police Commissioner of a small upstate city. But for...
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Fallen Angels
as UgolinoA neo-noir anthology television series, set in somber Los Angeles right after World War II and...
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Palace Guard
as uncreditedPalace Guard is the story of a reformed jewel thief and cat burglar, Tommy Logan, who, after...
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