Frank Vincent Movies and Career Information

Frank Vincent (born August 4, 1939) is an American actor, musician, author and entrepreneur. He is a favorite performer of director Martin Scorsese, having played important roles in three of Scorsese's most acclaimed films: Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990) and Casino (1995). He often plays a gangster and works both in features and television. He has also lent his voice talents to video games. He played the New York Boss Phil Leotardo in the HBO series The Sopranos. Vincent, an Italian American, was born Frank Vincent Gattuso in North Adams, Massachusetts, but was raised in Jersey City, New Jersey. His father, Frank Vincent Gattuso, Sr., was an iron worker. Vincent has two brothers: Nick and Jimmy. His father was one of six children Lucy/Lucille (Lucia), Phillip (Filippo), Tony (Antonio), Frank, James [Jimmy] and Cecilia [Ceil]); all the boys were born in North Adams, Massachusetts and the girls in New York to Italian immigrants Nicolò Gattuso and Francesca Di Peri. He is of Sicilian (paternal grandfather) and Neapolitan descent. As an accomplished player of the drums, trumpet, and piano, Vincent originally aspired to a career in music but in 1975 he co-starred in the