Joe Pesci - Overview

Date of Birth: Feb 09, 1943

Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey

Nationality: American

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It seemed in the early 1990s that every film released in the US had Joe Pesci in it. This diminutive, intense Italian-American character player took a long time to make it to the top: a former child performer and nightclub entertainer, he specialized in impersonations and audience insult. Born in Newark, Pesci spent much of the 1950s and '60s doing stand-up and appearing as one of TV's "Star Time" kids (Dumont, 1950-51). He sang with Frank Vincent and the Aristocrats, and in 1969 the two formed a comedy duo (Vincent later had notable cameo or supporting roles in half a dozen of Pesci films).

When Pesci made his film debut in the low-budget "Death Collector" (1975), he was spotted by Martin Scorsese and cast as Jake La Motta's edgy and long-suffering brother in s "Raging Bull" (1980). His career should have taken off after that triumph, but Pesci disappeared into a series of character turns in uneven "art" films (Nicolas Roeg's "Eureka" 1983), foreign assignments ("Tutti Dentro/Put 'Em All in Jail" 1984), and undistinguished genre pics (the Rodney Dangerfiel... Read More

Filmography (27)

Love Ranch (2010)

The Good Shepherd (2006)

The Crew (2000)

Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)

Gone Fishin' (1997)

8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997)

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