Tony Musante

Anthony Peter Musante (born June 30, 1936) is an American actor.

Musante was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of Natalie Anne (née Salerno), a school teacher, and Anthony Peter Musante, an accountant.^[1] He attended Oberlin College and Northwestern University.

Musante has 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.

Selected Filmography

• Once a Thief (1965)
• The Incident (1967)
• The Detective (1968)
• The Mercenary (1968)
• Metti una sera a cena (1969)
• The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
• The Anonymous Venetian (1970)
• The Last Run (1971)
• Grissom Gang (1971)
• Goodbye and Amen (1977)
• Eutanasia di un amore (1978)
• The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
• The Trap (1985)
• The Repenter (1985)
• Exiled: A Law & Order Movie (1998)
• The Yards (1999)
• The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)
• La vita come viene (2003)
• We Own the Night (2007)

References

External links

• Tony Musante at the Internet Movie Database
• Tony Musante at the Internet Broadway Database