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Vincent Gardenia Biography

Date of Birth:
Jan 7, 1920Birth Place:
Naples, Campania, Italy

Biography

Short, stocky character player whose furrowed brow, hawk nose and hearty manner made him an instantly recognizable figure on stage, screen and TV from the late 1950s. Starting as a professional actor in his mid-30s, Gardenia played supporting roles on Broadway in "Volpone" (1957), "Only in America" (1959) and "Seidman and Son" (1962) and in films including "The Hustler" (1961, playing a bartender) and "Mad Dog Coll" (1961, playing Dutch Schultz). He won a Tony for his performance in Neil Simon's "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" in 1972 and earned a New York Film Critics Award and his first Oscar nomination as the baseball team manager in "Bang the Drum Slowly" (1973). His second nomination came as Cher's philandering father in "Moonstruck" (1987).
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Vincent Gardenia

ACTOR

1920 - 1992

Vincent Gardenia

Vincent Gardenia (born Vincenzo Scognamiglio; January 7, 1920 – December 9, 1992) was an Italian-American stage, film and television actor. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, first for Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) and again for Moonstruck (1987). He also portrayed Det. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vincent Gardenia has received more than 1,236,311 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Vincent Gardenia is the 4,232nd most popular actor (down from 3,522nd in 2019), the 3,496th most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,081st in 2019) and the 144th most popular Italian Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Vincent Gardenia ranks 4,232 out of 13,578. Before him are Eleonora Br

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Vincent Gardenia

American actor (1920–1992)

Vincent Gardenia

Gardenia at the 1988 Academy Awards

Born

Vincenzo Scognamiglio


(1920-01-07)January 7, 1920[1]

Ercolano, Città Metropolitana di Napoli, Campania, Italy

DiedDecember 9, 1992(1992-12-09) (aged 72)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

OccupationActor
Years active1945–1992

Vincent Gardenia (born Vincenzo Scognamiglio; January 7, 1920 – December 9, 1992) was an Italian-American stage, film and television actor. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, first for Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) and again for Moonstruck (1987). He also portrayed Det. Frank Ochoa in Death Wish (1974) and its 1982 sequel, Death Wish II, and played Mr. Mushnik in the musical film adaptation Little Shop of Horrors (1986).

Gardenia's other notable feature films include Murder Inc. (1960), The Hustler (1961), The Front Page (1974), Greased Lightning (1977), Heaven Can Wait (1978) and The Super (1991).

In 1990, Gardenia was awarded the Emm

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