Tony Musante
Actor
Born June 30, 1936 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Tony Musante (1936-2013) was an American actor. Born Anthony Peter Musante, Jr. in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of Natalie Anne (née Salerno), a school teacher, and Anthony Peter Musante, an accountant, Musante attended Oberlin College and Northwestern University. Musante acted in numerous feature films, in the United States and elsewhere, including Italy. Among his body of work are the television series Toma (predecessor to Baretta) and the soap opera As The World Turns, and the 1975 Broadway play, P. S. Your Cat Is Dead!, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work in a 1975 episode of Medical Center, A Quality of Mercy. Musante also played Antonio "Nino" Schibetta, a feared Mafia boss and the Italian gang leader inside of Emerald City during the first season of the HBO critically acclaimed television series Oz.
Filmography
FantastiCozzi
(archive footage)
Pupetta, Woman of Honor
Don Luigi Vitiello
Ice
Mr. DeMartino
We Own the Night
Jack Shapiro
Gladiator of Pompeii
Alpio
Traffic
Alex Edmonds
Promessa d'amore
Amilcare
Life as It Is
Professore
Italian Kings Of B
Self
100 Centre Street
Frank Esposito
The Yards
Seymour Korman
The Seventh Scroll
Duraid Al Simma
The Deep End of the Ocean
Angelo
Exiled
Don Giancarlo Uzielli
Oz
Nino Schibetta
Deep Family Secrets
Lennox
Acapulco H.E.A.T.
Rocco Santora
Jesse Hawkes
Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder
Vittorio
The Repenter
Ragusa
The Equalizer
John Parker
The Trap
Michael
Rearview Mirror
Vince Martino
The Pope of Greenwich Village
Pete
Spy Connection
Jurek Rudinski
American Playhouse
George
High Ice
Lt. Col. Harris Thatcher
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Sal Falcone
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Sal Falcone
My Husband Is Missing
Derek Mackenzie
Break Up
Paolo Naviase
Goodbye & Amen
John Dannahay
Nowhere to Hide
Joey Faber
Origins of the Mafia
Michele Borello
Medical Story
Dr. Paul Brandon
The Desperate Miles
Joe Larkin
Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley
Lt. William Calley
The Rockford Files
Charlie Harris
Toma
Det. David Toma
Toma
Det. David Toma
Police Story
The Pisciotta Case
Francesco Scauri
The Last Run
Paul Rickard
The Grissom Gang
Eddie Hagan
The Anonymous Venetian
Enrico
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Sam Dalmas
Love Circle
Max
The Mercenary
Paco Roman
The Detective
Felix Tesla
The Incident
Joe Ferrone
Once a Thief
Cleveland 'Cleve' Shoenstein
The Fugitive
Billy Karnes
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Candle