Date of Birth : Aug 4th 1939
Italian American actor and musician. Among other noted roles, he played Phil Leotardo in the HBO series The Sopranos.
As an accomplished player of the drums, trumpet and piano, Vincent originally intended on a career in music, but in 1975, he co-starred in the low-budget gangster movie, The Death Collector along with Joe Pesci, where he was spotted by Martin Scorsese. Scorsese was impressed and hired Vincent to appear in a major supporting role in Raging Bull, which saw him link up once again with Pesci. The two would go on to appear together in several other movies. Another familiar co-star and good friend of Vincent’s is Robert De Niro, who is also friends with Pesci.
Vincent is usually typecast as a gangster. He appeared in Scorcese’s 1990 film Goodfellas, where he played Billy Batts, a ‘made guy’. He also played a prominent role as gangster Frankie Marino in Scorsese’s 1995 film Casino. In 1996, Vincent appeared in rap artist Nas’ video “Street Dreams” as his character Frankie Marino from Casino. The video mirrors Casino at certain times. In the television movie, Gotti, Vincent played Robert “DiB” DiBernardo, an associate of Mafia boss John Gotti, whose life the film chronicled. In The Sopranos, he played New York Boss Phil Leotardo. Vincent also had a leading role in the heist movie This Thing of Ours in 2003. One of his more light-hearted roles came when he was in a British television commercial for Peugeot cars. In early 2005, Frank Vincent appeared on Irish television in a series of television commercials for Irish bank Permanent TSB.
CAREER
Cop Land ( 1997 )
Casino ( 1996 )
Raging Bull ( 1981 )