Personal Info
Birth date
1923-04-05 (102 Years)
Day of death
1995-02-14
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Hillside, New Jersey, USA
Also known as
-Michael V. Gazzo
Biography
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Filmography
Robert Montgomery Presents
5.6
Overview:
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.Columbo
8.095
Overview:
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.The Defenders
6.2
Overview:
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.Baretta
6.3
Overview:
Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. While popular, Toma received intense criticism at the time for its realistic and frequent depiction of police and criminal violence. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title role.Barnaby Jones
6.9
Overview:
Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles. The show ran on CBS from January 28, 1973 to April 3, 1980, beginning as a midseason replacement. William Conrad guest starred as Frank Cannon of Cannon on the first episode of Barnaby Jones, "Requiem for a Son" and the two series had a two-part crossover episode in 1975, "The Deadly Conspiracy".Switch
6.7
Overview:
Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who work as private eyes, for a deceptive sting operation. It was broadcast on the CBS network for three seasons between September 9, 1975 and August 20, 1978, bumping the Hawaii Five-O detective series to Friday nights.Alice
7.036
Overview:
Alice is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on CBS. The series is based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a roadside diner on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona. Most of the episodes revolve around events at Mel's Diner.Magnum, P.I.
7.29
Overview:
A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.Vega$
7
Overview:
Vega$ is an American detective television drama series that aired on ABC between 1978 and 1981. It was produced by Aaron Spelling. The series was filmed in its entirety in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is believed to be the first television series produced entirely in Las Vegas. The show stars Robert Urich as private detective Dan Tanna, who drove around the streets of Las Vegas in a red 1957 Ford Thunderbird solving crimes and making Las Vegas a better place for residents and tourists alike.Medical Center
6.1
Overview:
Medical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. It was produced by MGM Television.The Fall Guy
7.568
Overview:
Hollywood stuntman Colt Seavers picks up some extra pocket money by using his rough-and-tumble skills to track and capture bail jumpers.Jake and the Fatman
6.12
Overview:
Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles. The series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 to 1992. Diagnosis: Murder was a spin-off of this series.1st & Ten
6.5
Overview:
1st & Ten is an American situation comedy that aired between December 1984 and January 1991 on the cable television network HBO. Featuring series regulars Delta Burke and veteran Reid Shelton, it was one of cable's first attempts to lure the lucrative sit-com audience away from the "Big Three", by taking advantage of their freedom to include occasional cursing and nudity.Kojak
7.004
Overview:
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
8.573
Overview:
An adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II, re-edited in chronological order with additional footage not seen in the first two films added.Ellery Queen
7.4
Overview:
Ellery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character Ellery Queen. It aired on NBC during the 1975-76 television season and stars Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen, David Wayne as his father, Inspector Richard Queen, and Tom Reese as Sgt. Velie. Created by the writing/producing team of Richard Levinson and William Link, the title character "breaks" the fourth wall to ask the audience to consider their solution.Starsky & Hutch
7.242
Overview:
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.Taxi
7.252
Overview:
Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He tries to maintain order over a collection of varied and strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his “cage,” they form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each other through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life.Lucan
6
Overview:
Lucan is a TV Drama which aired on ABC from 1977 to 1978, starring Kevin Brophy, John Randolph, and Don Gordon. A 20-year old man who spent the first 10 years of his life running wild in the forest after being raised by wolves, Lucan is taken to a research institute and taught the ways of human society. He is befriended by a kind research doctor whom he bonded with during his journey to civilization. Lucan's continued freedom at the research center is put in peril once his doctor friend and mentor is hurt. Unable to insure Lucan's well being at the institute, his friend encourages him to strike out on his own in search of his identity. The short-lived TV series chronicled the encounters, challenges, and intrigues Lucan faced interacting with people using his new learned social graces and old Wolfen instincts. Lucan did have special Wolfen skills that were invoked when he was made very angry. When upset to the point of violence his eyes glowed amber. He also had heightened senses of smell and hearing. In a few episodes he was able to call on his old wolf family/pack for help. This series was based on a 1977 made-for-TV movie of the same name directed by David Greene.The Godfather Part II
8.571
Overview:
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.L.A. Law
7.1
Overview:
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.Cagney & Lacey
6.984
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Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of all time.Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Overview:
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.Last Action Hero
6.474
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After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible cop. Given a magic ticket by a theater manager, he is transported into the film and teams up with the cop to stop a villain who escapes into the real world.Sudden Impact
6.551
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When a young rape victim takes justice into her own hands and becomes a serial killer, it's up to Dirty Harry Callahan, on suspension from the SFPD, to bring her to justice.Cannonball Run II
5.398
Overview:
When a wealthy sheikh puts up $1 million in prize money for a cross-country car race, there is one person crazy enough to hit the road hard with wheels spinning fast. Legendary driver J.J. McClure enters the competition along with his friend Victor and together they set off across the American landscape in a madcap action-adventure destined to test their wits and automobile skills.Alligator
6.071
Overview:
A baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives by eating discarded lab animals that have been injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal escapes the city sewers and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.Acting
1994Nothing to Lose as Joe
1993Last Action Hero as Torelli
1992Ring of the Musketeers (2 Episodes) as Papa
1989Cookie as Carmine
1987Jake and the Fatman (1 Episode) as Unknown
1986Blood Ties as Joseph Salina
1986L.A. Law (1 Episode) as Roscoe Zambini
19841st & Ten (13 Episodes) as Sal Arcola
1984Fear City as Mike
1984Cannonball Run II as Sonny
1983Sudden Impact as Threlkis (uncredited)
1983The Winter of Our Discontent as Marullo
1982Cagney & Lacey (1 Episode) as Unknown
1981Sizzle as Nick Tripoli
1981Darkroom (1 Episode) as Unknown
1981The Fall Guy (1 Episode) as Unknown
1981Body and Soul as Frankie
1981The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic as Frank Pentangeli
1981Back Roads as Tazio
1980Magnum, P.I. (1 Episode) as Victor DiGorgio
1980Hoodlums as Gus Azziello
1980The Border as Chico Suarez
1980Alligator as Chief Clark
1980Cuba Crossing as Rossellini (as Michael Gazzo)
1980B.A.D. Cats (1 Episode) as Junkyard George Karosky
1979Beggarman, Thief as Sartene
1979The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh as Harry the Trainer
1979Beach Patrol as Banker
1979Love and Bullets as Lobo
1978King of the Gypsies as Spiro Giorgio
1978Vega$ (1 Episode) as Unknown
1978Taxi (1 Episode) as Vince
1978Fingers as Ben
1977Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television (4 Episodes) as Frank Pentangeli
1977Lucan (1 Episode) as Unknown
1977Black Sunday as Muzi
1976Alice (1 Episode) as Unknown
1976Brinks: The Great Robbery as Mario Russo
1975Ellery Queen (1 Episode) as Unknown
1975Starsky & Hutch (1 Episode) as Joe Durniak
1975Switch (1 Episode) as Tony
1975Baretta (1 Episode) as Unknown
1974The Godfather Part II as Frank Pentangeli
1974Crazy Joe as Unknown
1973Kojak (2 Episodes) as Joel Adrian
1973Barnaby Jones (1 Episode) as Mr. Farinelli
1971The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight as A Black Suit
1971Columbo (1 Episode) as Vittorio Rossi
1969Medical Center (1 Episode) as Unknown
1961The Defenders (1 Episode) as Schultz
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 Episode) as Marullo
1950Robert Montgomery Presents (1 Episode) as Unknown
Writing
1973Klobouk plný deště ... Theatre Play
1970Alta comedia (1 Episode) ... Writer
1968A Hatful of Rain ... Teleplay, Screenplay
1958King Creole ... Screenplay
1957A Hatful of Rain ... Screenplay, Theatre Play