Neil Giuntoli Movies and Career Information

Neil Giuntoli (born 1959) is an American actor active since 1987, whose most famous role was in Child's Play (1988). Giuntoli is also the author and lead actor of the play Hizzoner, a fictional account of former Chicago mayor Richard Daley. The play received the longest run ever granted to a production at Chicago's Prop Theater and was critically well-received. Neil Giuntoli is an American actor and a native of Chicago. He is the great-great-great nephew of Anton Cermak, a former mayor of Chicago. Neil grew up on Chicago's north side and attended Francis W. Parker High School, after which he joined the Navy and was stationed in Korea as a translator. Upon returning to the United States Neil joined the burgeoning Chicago theater community as an actor and later as a playwright. After a number of very successful productions Neil Giuntoli moved to Los Angeles where he pursued roles in film and television. In television he is best known for his roles as Brody in Seinfeld, Florus Workman in "The Jeff Foxworthy Show", and the gunfighter Billy Quintaine in the Tales from the Crypt episode "Showdown". He is best know on the big screen for playing the role of Jigger in The Shawshank