Frank Vincent
| Frank Vincent | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Frank Vincent Gattuso August 4, 1939 North Adams, Massachusetts, U.S |
| Occupation | Actor, musician, author, entrepreneur |
| Years active | 1976-present |
Franklin Vincent Gattuso (born August 4, 1939), known professionally as Frank Vincent, is an American actor. He has played roles in several films for director Martin Scorsese: Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990), and Casino (1995). He has also lent his voice talents to video games, most noticeably as Salvatore Leone in the Grand Theft Auto series, and played crime boss Phil Leotardo in the HBO series The Sopranos.
Vincent, who is of Italian descent (ancestors from Sicily and Naples), was born in North Adams, Massachusetts and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey. His father, Frank Vincent Gattuso, Sr., was an iron worker and businessman. He has two brothers, Nick and Jimmy, and a half-sister, Fran.
As player of the drums, trumpet and piano, Vincent originally aspired to a career in music, but turned to acting in 1976, when he co-starred in the low-budget gangster movie The Death Collector along with Joe Pesci, where they were spotted by Robert De Niro. De Niro told Martin Scorsese about both Vincent and Pesci; Scorsese was impressed by their performances and hired Vincent to appear in a major supporting role in Raging Bull (1980), in which he once again appeared with Pesci and co-starred with De Niro. Vincent, Pesci and De Niro would go on to appear together in several other movies. In most of their films together, Vincent's character would have an antagonistic relationship with Pesci's character, and one usually ended up attacking or killing the other.
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