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Abe Vigoda
Date of Birth: 24 Feb 1921
Country: USA
Biography: Abraham Charles "Abe" Vigoda is an American movie and television actor. Vigoda is well known for his portrayal of Sal Tessio in The Godfather, and for his portrayal of Detective Sgt. Phil Fish on the sitcom television series Barney Miller from 1975-1977 and on its spinoff show Fish that aired from February 1977 to June 1978 on ABC. Vigoda was still also appearing on Barney Miller at the same time as he was on Fish during the 1976-1977 TV season...(Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 26 (Actor)
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Al Stanco has lived all of his life in Brooklyn and does some work for the local crime lord, Danny Parente. New to the neighbourhood is Gabriela, a filmmaker shooting a documentary on the real Brooklyn. Al and Gabriela become friendly but the relationship is strained when he discovers her true goal is to expose Parente's criminal activities. (imdb)
Witness to the Mob (1998) - TV Movie
Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano was mafiosi. He started out as a soldier, but his talent for murder, including the slayings of his best friends, his wife's brother and his own boss, Paul Castellano, saw him rise to under-boss in the Gambino crime family. However, betrayals within the family saw him break the code of silence and became the highest ranking member of the mob to turn into a rat - 'a rat in a suit,- assisting the government to finally put away the Teflon Don, John Gotti. (imdb)
Teenagers working at fast food called Good Burger (including naive Ed and Dexter who has to pay off a car accident with his school teacher Mr. Wheat) face stiff competition from mega chain Mondo Burger who have their own fast food across the street (imdb)
The Dana Carvey Show (1996) - TV Series
Riffs on pop culture, politics and even the show's own sponsors. (imdb)
Two rival Italian family restaurant owners in the Bronx nurture the "bad blood" between them. And the situation gets even worse when one of the family's sons (Nathaniel Marston) and the other's daughter (Angelina Jolie) fall in love. It's Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" with a New York twist ... fuhgeddaboudit!
After spending seven years behind bars, Johnny Crown is back on the street, with lots of cash, a psychotherapy degree and a burning desire to find and punish gangsters who had killed his father. (imdb)
Billy defies his parents and makes a secret trip from Long Island to Philadelphia to sneak his grandfather out of a nursing home and bring him home for the holidays. The home's inhabitants distract the staff so Billy and his confused Grandfather can make their escape. They cross path with a street gang whose leader chases them. They're given a hiding place by a concerned homeless man Buzzard Bracken, but their sanctuary is only temporary, as the gang invades the homeless camp and captures them.
When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as $5-a-day, he gets himself assigned to a jury in a murder trial. Once there, he does everything he can to prolong the trial and deliberations and make the sequestration more comfortable for himself.
Hardened, uncomprimising drug dealer Roemello Skuggs decides to quit his scumbag profession so he may start a new life with his girlfriend... (imdb)
Batman is wrongly implicated in a series of murders of mob bosses actually done by a new vigilante assassin. (imdb)
A martial-arts boxer working as a debt collector gets involved in a feud between rival Mafia families in L.A. (imdb)
When a hypochondriac learns that he is dying, he accepts an offer to throw himself in a volcano at a tropical island, and along the way there, learns to truly live. (imdb)
Mollie is a single mum who's on the lookout for a reliable and normal boyfriend. Her son Mikey, (unbeknownst to her) seems to have a better idea of which of the men she dates would make a good father figure (imdb)
Jessica, the daughter of an impoverished apple farmer, still believes in Santa Claus. So when she comes across a reindeer with an injured leg, it makes perfect sense to her to assume that it is Prancer, who had fallen from a Christmas display in town. She hides the reindeer in her barn and feeds it cookies, until she can return it to Santa. Her father finds the reindeer an decides to sell it to the butcher, not for venison chops, but as an advertising display. (imdb)
Ex-mobster Keaton, now living in a retirement home, narrowly misses being the target of a mob hit. Policemen Jake, an old friend of Keaton's, and Gable, a violent cop who takes an immediate disliking to the aging gangster are called in to keep Keaton safe as well as investigate the hit. There is a turn of events though when Jake is killed by the hit-men...Gable and Keaton are forced to get along while they search for whoever killed their friend and partner. (imdb)
To prove his brother's innocence, undercover officer Nick enrolls in high school again, dealing with crushes, bullies, humiliations, popularity swings, and quirky teachers and staff to find the real murderer. (imdb)
A bank executive is not having a good day. After giving birth to their eighth child, his wife insists that he have a vasectomy, something he doesn't even want to think about. On top of that, he discovers that other family members are stealing money from his bank.
Fantasy Island (1977) - TV Series
- Casting Director/Pentagram/A Little Ball (S02 E18)
- Goose for the Gander/Stuntman (S03 E02)
Death Car on the Freeway (1979) - TV Movie
Jan Clausen, a TV news reporter follows up a story on the freeway "Fiddler", a killer in a van who plays bluegrass music as he forces lone women drivers to their deaths. (BFI)
How To Pick Up Girls! (1978) - TV Movie
A shy guy gets fired for dating his boss' girlfriend. Taking advantage of his situation he writes a book on how to pick up chicks and on the way finds his love.
Fish (1977) - TV Series
Phil Fish is a detective with the New York Police Department who moves into a house with his gravelly-voiced wife Bernice, and adopts five foster children: street-smart Victor, black hipster Loomis, shy Jilly, charmer Mike and youthful Diane. Charlie was the social worker shrink who dropped in from time to time to make sure everything was OK.
Barney Miller (1974) - TV Series
Barney Miller is the kind of cop we'd all like to run into. He is always sensible. He maintains order over a squad room of detectives who gamble for a hobby, get hit on by anything in skirts, go to renaissance philosophy conventions for fun, and would really prefer to be writing. Nearly all of the action takes place in the squad room where the citizens and criminals are brought in to complicate the mix.
Police officer Newman has not gotten the reputation of a straight arrow by avoiding conflict when fighting for right. His honesty is put to a strong test when he and his partner discover an international drug ring involving some of the police department's highest ranking officers. (imdb)
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd (1974) - TV Movie
A humanistic account of "the Robin Hood of the Cookson Hills", in which Charles Arthur Floyd is portrayed as a decent man who has a strong sense of family and duty.
The Devil's Daughter (1973) - TV Movie
A young girl whose mother had sold her soul to Satan when she was born is told by Satan that she must marry a fellow demon. (imdb)
Aging patriarch Vito Corleone passes control of his powerful crime empire to his reluctant youngest son, Michael. As rival families threaten their dominance and launch violent attacks, Michael abandons his civilian life to protect his family, transforming into a ruthless mob boss to consolidate power and eliminate all enemies.


























