Tony Musante

Biography

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.

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Known For

We Own the Night 2007 ★ 6.7
Gladiator of Pompeii 2007 ★ 7.0
Traffic 2004 ★ 6.5
100 Centre Street 2001 ★ 8.2
The Yards 2000 ★ 6.2
The Deep End of the Ocean 1999 ★ 6.6
The Seventh Scroll 1999 ★ 5.7
Oz 1997 ★ 8.0
Acapulco H.E.A.T. 1993 ★ 5.3
Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder 1987 ★ 7.7
The Equalizer 1985 ★ 7.1
The Pope of Greenwich Village 1984 ★ 6.3
American Playhouse 1982 ★ 6.6
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do 1979
Origins of the Mafia 1976 ★ 8.0
Medical Story 1975 ★ 5.0
The Rockford Files 1974 ★ 7.6
Police Story 1973 ★ 7.0
Toma 1973 ★ 6.8
The Grissom Gang 1971 ★ 6.7
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970 ★ 7.1
The Mercenary 1968 ★ 6.9
The Fugitive 1963 ★ 7.4
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 1962 ★ 7.9