James Russo

James Russo
James Russo
Born	James Vincent Russo; April 23, 1953; New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	New York University
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1977–present
Spouse(s)	Bettina Russo (m. 1995)
Children	2

James Vincent Russo (born April 23, 1953)[1] is an American film and television actor. He has appeared in over 150 films in three decades.

Early life

Russo was born in New York City, New York, to an Italian father and German mother.[2] A graduate of the High School of Art and Design and New York University (NYU), he wrote and starred in the prize-winning short film The Candy Store. Before his first break in acting, he drove for a cab company, worked as a construction worker and a gravedigger.[2] He was raised in Flushing, New York and spent his formative years on 156th street.

Career

Russo's first role in his acting career was in the 1981 made-for-television film Chicago Story. He then went on to star in many hit films of the 1980s.

His big break (but small role) came in the 1982 classic comedy film Fast Times at Ridgemont High, as a convenience store robber. In 1984, he appeared in Beverly Hills Cop as Mikey Tandino, a friend of Axel Foley who is murdered.[3] That same year he starred in The Cotton Club and played small-time hood Bugsy in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America. Russo's other big role was as a brutal rapist in the 1986 drama Extremities, opposite Farrah Fawcett.[2] He starred in the 1988 drama-suspense-thriller film Freeway.

Russo's film roles in the 1990s include State of Grace (1990), A Kiss Before Dying (1991),[4] and My Own Private Idaho (1991).[5] Russo also had roles in the 1994 Western Bad Girls,[6] the 1997 hit films The Postman,[7] and Donnie Brasco.[8] In 2009 he had a small role in Michael Mann's Public Enemies as a member of John Dillinger's gang.[9]

In 2003, Russo was reunited with his co-star from The Postman, Kevin Costner, in the Western film Open Range.[10] He made guest appearances in many TV dramas and films, including The Equalizer, Miami Vice, CSI, CSI: Miami, and Las Vegas.

In the summer of 2009, Russo starred in the psychological thriller 7E with Brendan Sexton III, John Savage and Natasha Lyonne. The film was released on December 10, 2013.[11] Russo had a supporting role in Quentin Tarantino's 2012 film Django Unchained.[12]

He appeared on Bastille's music video for "Of The Night".[13]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982	A Stranger Is Watching	Ronald Thompson
	Fast Times at Ridgemont High	Robber
	Vortex	Anthony Demmer
1983	Exposed	Nick
1984	Once Upon a Time in America	Bugsy
	Beverly Hills Cop	Mikey Tandino
	The Cotton Club	Vince Hood
1986	Extremities	Joe
1987	China Girl	Alby
1988	The Blue Iguana	Reno
1988	Freeway	Frank Quinn
1989	The Belt	Vittorio De Simone
	The Vineyard	Teddy
	We're No Angels	Bobby
1990	State of Grace	DeMarco	Uncredited
1991	A Kiss Before Dying	Dan Corelli
	My Own Private Idaho	Richard Waters
	Cold Heaven	Daniel Corvin
	Intimate Stranger	Nick Ciccini	TV film
1992	In the Shadow of a Killer	Charlie Van	TV film
1992	Illicit Behavior	Bill Tanner
1993	Desperate Rescue: The Cathy Mahone Story	Don Feeney	TV film
	Trauma	Capt. Travis
	Da Vinci's War	Mintz
	Double Deception	Jon Kane	TV film
	Dangerous Game	Francis Burns
1994	Bad Girls	Kid Jarrett
1995	The Secretary	Ted Burke	TV film
	Panther	Rodgers
	Condition Red	Dan Cappelli
	The Set Up	Kliff
1996	Livers Ain't Cheap a.k.a. The Real Thing	Rupert Little
	No Way Home	Tommy
	American Strays	Eddie
	Small Time	Jerry
1997	Donnie Brasco	Paulie
	Laws of Deception	Gino Carlucci
	The Girl Gets Moe a.k.a. Love to Kill	Brannagin
	Under Oath	Warren Erickson
	The Postman	Idaho
1998	Heist	Nick the Stick
	My Husband's Secret Life	Sal Bianculli	TV film
	Butter a.k.a. Never 2 Big	Juke Box Danny
	Fait Accompli a.k.a. Voodoo Dawn	Luc
	Charades a.k.a. Felons	Max Targenville
	Detour	Ziggy Rotella
1999	BitterSweet	Joe Massa
	Jimmy Zip	Otis Campbell
	The Ninth Gate	Bernie
	Diamonds	Damian	Uncredited
2000	Sonic Impact	Agent Nick Halton
	The Unscarred	Mickey Vernon
	Deep Core	Darryl Simmons
	Paper Bullets	John Rourke
	Hidden War	Matt Forman
	Bad Guys	John Tykor
2001	Pendulum	Edward Mills
2001	Double Deception a.k.a. 24 Hours to Die	Snake
2002	Shattered Lies	Smiler
	The House Next Door	Carl Schmidt
	Redemption	Capt. Grill
	My Daughter's Tears	Mr. Quinn
2003	Stealing Sinatra	Frank Sinatra
	A Good Night to Die	Roy
	Paris	Leon King
	The Box	Frank Miles
	Open Range	Sheriff Poole
2004	Target	Donovan
2004	Fallacy
2005	One Among Us	Ryan Brannigan (the Ex-Cop)
	Come as You Are	Benny
	Confessions of a Pit Fighter	Sharkey
2006	All In	Dr. Pennington
	Broken Trail	Captain Billy Fender	TV film
	Satanic	Eddie
	Shut Up and Shoot!	David Sanchez
	Blackwater Valley Exorcism	The Bishop
	Cut Off	Gonzo
2007	Chill	Detective Defazio
	Blue Lake Massacre	Sheriff Jack
	Machine	Butch
	The Pink Conspiracy	Cox
	The Hit	Mr. Santucci
	On the Doll	Janitor
2008	Little Red Devil	Mr. Trundell
	Dark World	Charlie
	Kings of the Evening	Ramsey
	Stiletto	Engelhart
	Deadwater	Commander Combs
	Born of Earth	Tom Reeser
	Shoot First and Pray You Live (Because Luck Has Nothing to Do with It)	Bob McGurk
	Break	The Father
2009	Charlie Valentine	Rocco
	Never Surrender	Jimmy
	Public Enemies	Walter Dietrich
	Dreams and Shadows	John Brunette
	Taken by Force
2010	One in the Gun	Jimmy
	Dark Woods	Sheriff Demming
	Boy Wonder	Larry Childs
	Love Sick Diaries	Lorenzo De'mon
2011	Good God Bad Dog	Peter Elias
	Miss Bala	Jimmy
	The Dragon Warrior	Claudius
	Yellow Rock	Max Dietrich
2012	Django Unchained	Dicky Speck
2012	Revan	Stone
2013	Samuel Bleak	Charles Bleak
	Five Thirteen	Agent Acevedo
	Chavez Cage of Glory	Tony
	7E	Sam
2014	Perfect Sisters	Steve Bowman
	Strike One	Paul Fairfield
	The Bag Man		Original screenplay
2015	Voiceless	Pastor Gil
	Black Mass	Agent Scott Gariola	Uncredited
	An American Hero
2016	Vigilante Diaries	Mr. Hanover
2017	Living Among Us	Aaron
2018	Desolate	Duke Stone
2019	Badland	Fred Quaid

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	The Equalizer	Police Detective	Episode: "China Rain"
1985	Miami Vice	Frank Sacco	Episode: "The Prodigal Son"
1987	Crime Story	Nat Martino	Episode: "Ground Zero"
1988	Friday the 13th: The Series	Janos Korda	Episode: "Symphony in B-Sharp"
1991	Gabriel's Fire	Charles Crowley	Episode: "Belly of the Beast"
1997	C-16: FBI	Frank Saretti	Episode: "Eight Pounds of Pressure"
2000	Falcone	Victor Mura	Episode: "Pilot"
2004	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Sinclair	Episode: "Getting Off"
2004	Without a Trace	Michael Krauss	Episode: "Lost and Found"
2005	Joan of Arcadia	James Karon	Episode: "Trial and Error"
2006	Las Vegas	Warren Pemberton	Episode: "The Story of Owe"
2006–2008	CSI: Miami	Joey Salucci	2 episodes
2008	The Capture of the Green River Killer	Jeb Dallas	2-part miniseries
2009	Numb3rs	John Curtis	Episode: "12:01 AM"
2009	Dark Blue	Robert Franzine	Episode: "Pilot"
2012–2013	Vegas	Anthony 'Red' Cervelli	15 episodes
2014–2015	Chicago Fire	Papa Lullo	3 episodes

Stage

Off-Broadway
Year	Title	Role
1982	Extremities	Raul

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist
2013	Of the Night	Bastille

Awards

Year	Association	Award	Nominated work	Result
1983	Theatre World Award		Extremities[14]	Won
2004	San Diego Film Festival	Best Actor	The Box[15]	Won

References

"James Russo". AllMovie. Retrieved February 6, 2020.
Staff, People (September 22, 1986). "James Russo Makes a Big Splash Stalking Farrah in Extremities, but as a Talker He's All Wet". People. Retrieved October 18, 2017.
Pirnia, Garin (December 5, 2014). "6 Ways Beverly Hills Cop Changed Comedy Forever". Esquire. Retrieved December 5, 2014.
Cedrone, Lou (April 26, 1991). "Pucker up for murder 'Kiss Before Dying' packs potent punch". The Evening Sun. Retrieved October 18, 2017.
Kehr, Dave (October 18, 1991). "`MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO` PUTS FILMMAKING IN A GREAT STATE". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved October 18, 2017.
Rainer, Peter (April 22, 1994). "Movie Reviews : 'Bad Girls': A High-Fashion Western". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 18, 2017.
Johnson, Malcolm (December 24, 1997). "CREDIT DUE: `THE POSTMAN' DELIVERS". Hartford Courant. Retrieved October 18, 2017.
Maslin, Janet (February 28, 1997). "Al Pacino as Gangster, A Guy Who's Not Wise". The New York Times. Retrieved October 18, 2017.
Sragow, Michael (July 1, 2009). "DEPP AND HIS INNER OUTLAW". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved October 18, 2017.
McCarthy, Todd (August 10, 2003). "Open Range". Variety. Retrieved October 18, 2017.
Jagernauth, Kevin (November 4, 2013). "Exclusive: Trailer For Thriller '7E' Starring Brendan Sexton III, James Russo & Natasha Lyonne". IndieWire. Retrieved July 31, 2017.
Sneider, Jeff (November 9, 2011). "Thesps line up for 'Django Unchained'". Variety. Retrieved November 11, 2011.
Trendell, Andrew (October 9, 2013). "Bastille to re-release Bad Blood with new tracks and new single". Gigwise. Retrieved October 14, 2013.
James Russo - Awards Archived October 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine at Internet Broadway Database
"Award Winners". August 28, 2010. Archived from the original on August 28, 2010. Retrieved September 23, 2019.

External links

James Russo at IMDb
James Russo at the Internet Broadway Database
James Russo at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
James Russo (Aveleyman)

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[1] "James Russo". AllMovie. Retrieved February 6, 2020.

[people-2] Staff, People (September 22, 1986). "James Russo Makes a Big Splash Stalking Farrah in Extremities, but as a Talker He's All Wet". People. Retrieved October 18, 2017.

[3] Pirnia, Garin (December 5, 2014). "6 Ways Beverly Hills Cop Changed Comedy Forever". Esquire. Retrieved December 5, 2014.

[4] Cedrone, Lou (April 26, 1991). "Pucker up for murder 'Kiss Before Dying' packs potent punch". The Evening Sun. Retrieved October 18, 2017.

[5] Kehr, Dave (October 18, 1991). "`MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO` PUTS FILMMAKING IN A GREAT STATE". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved October 18, 2017.

[6] Rainer, Peter (April 22, 1994). "Movie Reviews : 'Bad Girls': A High-Fashion Western". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 18, 2017.

[7] Johnson, Malcolm (December 24, 1997). "CREDIT DUE: `THE POSTMAN' DELIVERS". Hartford Courant. Retrieved October 18, 2017.

[8] Maslin, Janet (February 28, 1997). "Al Pacino as Gangster, A Guy Who's Not Wise". The New York Times. Retrieved October 18, 2017.

[9] Sragow, Michael (July 1, 2009). "DEPP AND HIS INNER OUTLAW". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved October 18, 2017.

[10] McCarthy, Todd (August 10, 2003). "Open Range". Variety. Retrieved October 18, 2017.

[11] Jagernauth, Kevin (November 4, 2013). "Exclusive: Trailer For Thriller '7E' Starring Brendan Sexton III, James Russo & Natasha Lyonne". IndieWire. Retrieved July 31, 2017.

[12] Sneider, Jeff (November 9, 2011). "Thesps line up for 'Django Unchained'". Variety. Retrieved November 11, 2011.

[13] Trendell, Andrew (October 9, 2013). "Bastille to re-release Bad Blood with new tracks and new single". Gigwise. Retrieved October 14, 2013.

[14] James Russo - Awards Archived October 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine at Internet Broadway Database

[15] "Award Winners". August 28, 2010. Archived from the original on August 28, 2010. Retrieved September 23, 2019.