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Michael V. Gazzo
Actor 1923 - 1995

Michael V. Gazzo

Hillside, New Jersey, USA

Michael Vincenzo Gazzo (April 5, 1923 - February 14, 1995) was an American playwright and actor. He is best known for his role in The Godfather: Part II (1974), for which he was nominated the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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15 titles
Last Action Hero

Last Action Hero

John McTiernan 1993 2h 11m 7.0

Danny (Austin O'Brien) is obsessed with a fictional movie character action hero Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger)... When a magical ticket transports him into Jack's latest adventure, Danny finds himself in a world where movie magic and reality collide. Now it's up to Danny to save the life of his hero and new friend.

Ring of the Musketeers

Ring of the Musketeers

1992

Modern day "Musketeers" attempt to become protectors of the inocent. While the biking trio rescue kindnapped children, guard witnesses, and chase mafia types, they also seek the missing fourth musketeer, who wears the famous musketeers' ring.

Fear City

Fear City

Abel Ferrara 1984 1h 35m 5.5

Tom Berenger plays an ex-boxer and "talent" agent who finds his life closing in around him when a psychopathic martial artist starts stabbing and slashing strippers on their way home from nightclubs.

Cannonball Run II

Cannonball Run II

Hal Needham 1984 1h 48m 5.8

The original characters from the first Cannonball Run movie complete in an illegal race across the country once more in various cars and trucks.

Sudden Impact

Sudden Impact

Clint Eastwood 1983 1h 57m 7.2

When a young rape victim takes justice into her own hands and becomes a serial killer, it's up to Dirty Harry Callahan, on suspension from the SFPD, to bring her to justice.

Body and Soul

Body and Soul

George Bowers 1981 1h 49m

A young man struggles to become a boxing champ, but success blinds him. It is only through the love of his girlfriend that he is brought back to reality.

The Border

The Border

Christopher Leitch 1980 1h 18m 4.0

US Border Patrol agent Frank Cooper is keeping a fine balance between doing his duty and empathizing with illegal Mexican border jumpers in 1970s California.

Alligator

Alligator

Lewis Teague 1980 1h 31m 6.0

A baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives by eating discarded lab animals that have been injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal escapes the city sewers and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.

The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh

The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh

Gilbert Moses 1979 1h 42m

The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners.

Love and Bullets

Love and Bullets

John Huston, Stuart Rosenberg 1979 1h 43m 6.0

Arizona cop is sent to Switzerland to bring in the girlfriend of a dangerous mobster so she can testify against him. The mobster sends someone too - assassins.

Fingers

Fingers

James Toback 1978 1h 30m 9.0

A dysfunctional young man is pulled between loyalties to his Italian mob-connected loan-shark father and his mentally-disturbed Jewish concert-pianist mother.

Black Sunday

Black Sunday

John Frankenheimer 1977 2h 23m 6.8

When a Black September terrorist group begins a plot to carry out a massive terrorist attack in the United States, an Israeli commando works with the FBI to identify the target and conspirators, and prevent the plan from succeeding.

The Godfather: Part II

The Godfather: Part II

Francis Ford Coppola 1974 3h 22m 9.0

After the extraordinary success of the first Godfather film came this second saga of the New York mafia family. This mafia epic tells the story of Michael Corleone and his father Vito.

A Man Called Adam

A Man Called Adam

Leo Penn 1966 1h 39m 6.0

A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.

On the Waterfront

On the Waterfront

Elia Kazan 1954 1h 48m 8.4

On the Waterfront is a social criticism gangster film from director Elia Kazan, about an ex-boxer, who is part of the corruption of the trade unions for the men working on the waterfront in New York. A film about mob violence that won eight Academy Awards.

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