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Actor Born: 1940 Biography:New Jersey-born character actor "Frank Vincent" is best known for playing threatening thugs and gangsters, but he actually started out working with "Joe Pesci" as a comedy duo during the early '70s. Before that, Pesci and Vincent had worked together in a honky tonk band, the Aristocrats, in which Pesci sang lead and Vincent played the drums. The duo broke up in 1975, but not before landing supporting roles as gangsters in the low-budget crime drama "Death Collector". Afterward, Vincent disappeared from the entertainment industry until 1978, when he again encountered Pesci, who helped him land the part of Salvi, the gangster whom Pesci badly beats in "Martin Scorsese"'s epic biography "Raging Bull" (1980). The former duo subsequently teamed in "Dear Mr. Wonderful" (1982), Scorsese's "GoodFellas" (1990), where Pesci gave Vincent a fatal beating, and in "Casino", where the worm turned and Vincent got to... Full Biography
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