Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
54
Gender
Male
Birthday
1936-06-30
Day of Death
2013-11-26 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Also Known As
Peter Salerno
Anthony Peter Musante Jr.
Anthony Peter Musante
Tony Musante
Biography
Tony Musante (1936-2013) was an American actor. Born Anthony Peter Musante, Jr. in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of Natalie Anne (née Salerno), a school teacher, and Anthony Peter Musante, an accountant, Musante attended Oberlin College and Northwestern University. Musante acted in numerous feature films, in the United States and elsewhere, including Italy. Among his body of work are the television series Toma (predecessor to Baretta) and the soap opera As The World Turns, and the 1975 Broadway play, P. S. Your Cat Is Dead!, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work in a 1975 episode of Medical Center, A Quality of Mercy. Musante also played Antonio "Nino" Schibetta, a feared Mafia boss and the Italian gang leader inside of Emerald City during the first season of the HBO critically acclaimed television series Oz. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tony Musante, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
