| Property | Value |
|---|
| rdf:type | |
| rdfs:label | - Michael V. Gazzo
- Michael V. Gazzo
|
| rdfs:comment | - Michael V. Gazzo was an Italian-American actor and playwright.
- Michael V. Gazzo è l'attore che interpreta Frank Pentangeli ne Il Padrino parte II.
- Michael Vincente Gazzo was an American writer and actor. He was born in Hillside, New Jersey on April 5, 1923 and died in his hometown on February 14, 1995. Gazzo began his career as a Broadway playwright. His most successful work was A Hatfull of Rain, a play about drug addiction, which ran for nearly four hundred performances between 1955 and 1956. The play was adapted into an Academy Award nominated movie in 1957. In 1958, Gazzo served as co-screenwriter for the movie King Creole which starred Elvis Presley.
- Michael Vincente Gazzo (April 5, 1923 – February 14, 1995) was a noted Broadway playwright who later in life became a prominent American film and television actor. He was a member of the Actors Studio, (and would later go on to train such actors as Debra Winger, Henry Silva and Tony Sirico) and was author of the notable Broadway play on drug addiction A Hatful of Rain, which ran for 389 performances in 1955 and 1956 - starring Ben Gazzara and Shelley Winters in the two lead roles. He subsequently adapted it as a film in 1957. The film was then nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Anthony Franciosa). Later a 1968 made-for-television version (as a filmed play) starred Sandy Dennis, Michael Parks, and Peter Falk in the main roles. He was also co-screenwriter of the
|
| owl:sameAs | |
| filmografia | - * Il Padrino parte II
* Baretta
* Rapsodia per un killer
* Coraggio... fatti ammazzare
* Paura su Manhattan
|
| dcterms:subject | |
| Morte | |
| Nascita | |
| dbkwik:padrino/property/wikiPageUsesTemplate | |
| Last | |
| Name | - Michael V. Gazzo
- Michael V. Gazzo
|
| Text | |
| First | |
| dbkwik:godfather/property/wikiPageUsesTemplate | |
| Died | - 1995-02-14
- Los Angeles, U.S.
|
| url | |
| Born | - 1923-04-05
- New Jersey, U.S.
|
| Portrayed | |
| Personaggio | |
| abstract | - Michael V. Gazzo was an Italian-American actor and playwright.
- Michael Vincente Gazzo was an American writer and actor. He was born in Hillside, New Jersey on April 5, 1923 and died in his hometown on February 14, 1995. Gazzo began his career as a Broadway playwright. His most successful work was A Hatfull of Rain, a play about drug addiction, which ran for nearly four hundred performances between 1955 and 1956. The play was adapted into an Academy Award nominated movie in 1957. In 1958, Gazzo served as co-screenwriter for the movie King Creole which starred Elvis Presley. Later in life, Gazzo became a prolific movie and television actor. He played Frank Pentangeli in The Godfather Part II, a 1974 movie written by Mario Puzo as a sequel to his 1969 novel, a role for which Gazzo was nominated for an Academy Award.
- Michael Vincente Gazzo (April 5, 1923 – February 14, 1995) was a noted Broadway playwright who later in life became a prominent American film and television actor. He was a member of the Actors Studio, (and would later go on to train such actors as Debra Winger, Henry Silva and Tony Sirico) and was author of the notable Broadway play on drug addiction A Hatful of Rain, which ran for 389 performances in 1955 and 1956 - starring Ben Gazzara and Shelley Winters in the two lead roles. He subsequently adapted it as a film in 1957. The film was then nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Anthony Franciosa). Later a 1968 made-for-television version (as a filmed play) starred Sandy Dennis, Michael Parks, and Peter Falk in the main roles. He was also co-screenwriter of the Elvis Presley film King Creole (1958). As an actor, Gazzo was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Frank Pentangeli in The Godfather Part II, which he lost to Robert De Niro for the same film. On his passing from a stroke in 1995, Michael Gazzo was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
- Michael V. Gazzo è l'attore che interpreta Frank Pentangeli ne Il Padrino parte II.
|
