Gianni Russo
Date of birth: 1943-12-12
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Louis Giovanni "Gianni" Russo, Louis Giovanni Russo
Biography
With a singularly nebulous background, which, by his account, included stints as a Las Vegas nightclub emcee, radio personality, and jewelry tycoon, and comparatively little acting experience, Gianni Russo won the role of Carlo Rizzi in The Godfather (1972) on the basis of his screen test. Since then, Russo has remained busy as an actor, mostly playing assorted "wiseguys" and Mafia types. He was appeared again with Marlon Brando in a small role in The Freshman (1990) in which Brando parodied his Don Corleone role to good effect. IMDb Mini Biography By: Bob Sorrentino
Movie Credits
After the Sunset
2004-11-12
An FBI agent is suspicious of two master thieves, quietly enjoying their retirement near what may -
The Freshman
1990-07-20
After a film student gets his belongings stolen, he meets a mobster bearing a startling resemblance
Laserblast
1978-03-01
Happy go-lucky teen Billy Duncan discovers an otherworldly laser gun in the southern California dese
The Godfather
1972-03-14
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family
The Great Pretender
1991-04-14
A newspaper reporter, who has just won a trial against his newspaper which had fired him, suffers da
Rope Art
2000-12-12
An ambitious assistant prosecuting attorney, his wife, and an audacious erotic performance artist, e
Harvard Man
2001-08-01
College has always been a time for experimentation, sexual, cultural and otherwise. "Harvard Man" pl
Lepke
1975-05-23
Lepke is the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Lo
Mulberry St.
2010-07-17
Born in the Bronx and raised in upstate New York, Abel Ferrara started his professional film career
Lo sgarbo
1975-01-01
A glamorous playboy thug's brutal trail of murder, terrorism and sexual blackmail across Las Vegas,
Out for Justice
1991-04-12
Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood
Winter Kills
1979-05-11
The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and de
The Godfather Part II
1974-12-20
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in
Another You
1991-07-26
George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world
3000 Miles to Graceland
2001-02-23
It was an ingenious enough plan: rob the Riviera Casino's count room during an Elvis impersonator co
Wiseguy: Pilot
1987-09-16
This was the feature-length pilot for the hit series. Vinnie Terranova, a Justice Department agent r
Any Given Sunday
1999-12-22
A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replac
Silverfox
1991-07-06
Unsold series pilot about a former secret service agent, turned government spy, who can't seem to re
The Bait
1973-03-13
Tracy Fleming is a widowed police officer, with a young son, who has risen to the role of plaincloth
Side Out
1990-03-30
A law student comes to California for the summer and ends up playing professional volleyball.
The Four Deuces
1975-07-03
This is a tongue-in-cheek crime melodrama that became a 'Late Late Show' fixture in the 1980s, accor
Chances Are
1989-03-10
Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing t
Rush Hour 2
2001-08-03
It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excite
Striptease
1996-06-28
Bounced from her job, Erin Grant needs money if she's to have any chance of winning back custody of
Kill Shot
1995-04-18
Out at Pacific Coast University, five students living in the same apartment building go through pers
Send No Flowers
2013-04-01
Through the voice of her aging father, mafia princess Toni runs the city. But when her father is gun
Super Mario Bros.
1993-05-28
Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dino
Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion
1991-09-24
An editor of a fashion magazine writes a column that destroys careers. She is also a brutal employer
Goodnight, My Love
1972-10-17
Gruff gumshoe Francis Hogan is hired by a mysterious woman to find her boyfriend who has gone missin
The Family Man
2000-12-12
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery stor
Stay Tuned
1992-08-14
Salesman Roy Knable spends all his free time watching television, to the exasperation of his wife, H
Crossing Paths
1998-03-27
A chance encounter leaves a successful salesman and a struggling college student envious of each oth
Red Dragon
2002-10-02
Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecte
Seabiscuit
2003-07-22
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of