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Tony Musante

Born 1936-06-30

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.

Known for

We Own the Night 2007 · 6.8 The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970 · 7.1 The Yards 2000 · 6.4 The Deep End of the Ocean 1999 · 6.3 The Pope of Greenwich Village 1984 · 6.6 The Mercenary 1968 · 7.1 The Incident 1967 · 7.6 The Detective 1968 · 6.5 The Last Run 1971 · 6.6 Zerophilia 2005 · 6.0 Exiled 1998 · 6.4 Goodbye & Amen 1977 · 6.7