Tony SiricoAKA:
Anthony Sirico
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Genaro Anthony Sirico
G Anthony Sirico
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American Birthdate:
07/26/1942 Birthplace:
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biography
Although never "connected", actor Tony Sirico had his share of run-ins with the law before packing the pistol away to play hoodlums in the movies. While doing time in Sing Sing, he saw a traveling thespian troupe of ex-cons called The Theater of the Forgotten and determined that he to would be an actor. Shortly after his release from prison, he earned his Screen Actors Guild card for his work in "Crazy Joey" (1974, about the life of mobster Joey Gallo), but the lean years that followed almost convinced him to strap the iron back on to earn his daily bread. Sirico persevered and began making
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Grew up in Brooklyn, New York
Jailed twice for robbing some New York nightclubs in the late 1960s and early 1970s; served part of his time in Sing Sing, where a traveling thespian troupe of ex-cons called The Theater of the Forgotten came to entertain the inmates
1974
Earned Screen Actors Guild card for first film, "Crazy Joe"
1980
Credited as G Anthony Sirico for John Flynn's "Defiance"
1980
Credited as Anthony Sirico Jr in James Toback's "Love & Money"
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