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Tony Musante

Tony Musante

Birthday: 1936-06-30 | Place of Birth: Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2007
We Own the Night

as    Cpt. Jack Shapiro

2004
Traffic

as    Alex Edmonds

2000
The Yards

as    Seymour Korman

1998
Exiled

as    Don Giancarlo Uzielli

1997
Deep Family Secrets

as    Lennox

1985
The Trap

as    Michael

1985
The Repenter

as    Ragusa

1984
1980
High Ice

as    Lt. Col. Harris Thatcher

1978
My Husband Is Missing

as    Derek Mackenzie

1978
Break Up

as    Paolo Naviase

1977
Goodbye & Amen

as    John Dhannay

1975
The Desperate Miles

as    Joe Larkin

1971
The Grissom Gang

as    Eddie Hagan

1971
The Last Run

as    Paul Rickard

1968
The Detective

as    Felix Tesla

1968
The Mercenary

as    Paco Roman

1967
The Incident

as    Joe Ferrone

1965
Once a Thief

as    Cleveland 'Cleve' Shoenstein