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Charles Cioffi is a Actor American born on 31 october 1935 at New York City (USA)

Charles Cioffi

Charles Cioffi
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Nationality USA
Birth 31 october 1935 (88 years) at New York City (USA)

Charles Cioffi (born October 31, 1935), also credited as Charles M. Cioffi, is an American movie and television actor.

He was born in New York City and attended Michigan State University, where he became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.

His film roles include Lt. Vic Androzzi in Shaft (1971), Peter Cable in Klute (1971), and Pop in All the Right Moves (1983). He has appeared on Kojak, Frasier, Wings, The X Files, NYPD Blue, Hawaii Five-O, and various other shows, including The A-Team (1983) as Gianni Christian, and Days of Our Lives, in which he played the short-lived but memorable role of villain Ernesto Toscano. He has also appeared in several productions both on and off Broadway. He has also made an appearance on Law & Order as mob boss Frank Masucci.
He has also voiced Chairman Prescott in the Xbox 360 videogames Gears of War 2.

Biography

Il naît à New York et étudie à la Michigan State University, où il devient membre de la fraternité Sigma Chi.

En 1971, il incarne le lieutenant Vic Androzzi dans Les Nuits rouges de Harlem (Shaft) et Peter Cable dans Klute.

Acteur de cinéma, il apparaît cependant par la suite dans de nombreuses séries télévisées comme Kojak, New York, police judiciaire (où il joue Frank Masucci), Frasier, Wings, X-Files : Aux frontières du réel (où il incarne le chef de section Scott Blevins), New York Police Blues, Hawaï police d'État, et bien d'autres, comme Des jours et des vies, où il incarne le redoutable Ernesto Tocano. Il apparaît également dans plusieurs productions à Broadway.

En 2008, enfin, il assure la voix du président Prescott dans le jeu vidéo Gears of War 2, sur Xbox 360.

Best films

Klute
Klute
(1971)
(Actor) Shaft
Shaft
(1971)
(Actor)

Usually with

Michael Chapman
Michael Chapman
(3 films)
Ned Beatty
Ned Beatty
(3 films)
Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards
(1 films)
David Clennon
David Clennon
(3 films)
Richard C. Sarafian
Richard C. Sarafian
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Charles Cioffi (23 films)

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Actor

Shadow Conspiracy
Shadow Conspiracy (1997)
, 1h43
Directed by George Cosmatos
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Political films
Actors Charlie Sheen, Donald Sutherland, Linda Hamilton, Stephen Lang, Ben Gazzara, Sam Waterston
Roles General Blackburn
Rating49% 2.4521052.4521052.4521052.4521052.452105
Set in Washington D.C., this film documents an attempted power grab by White House Chief of Staff Jacob Conrad (Donald Sutherland). Bobby Bishop (Charlie Sheen) is a special aide to the President who finds out about a plot to assassinate the President from a former professor. Bobby's old professor is murdered shortly thereafter and Bobby is left to try to uncover the conspiracy on his own. He recruits his journalist friend Amanda Givens (Linda Hamilton) to help him uncover the mystery and stop the assassination.
Newsies
Newsies (1992)
, 2h1
Directed by Kenny Ortega
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Films about the labor movement, Musical films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Christian Bale, David Moscow, Bill Pullman, Robert Duvall, Ann-Margret, Luke Edwards
Roles Seitz
Rating68% 3.44913.44913.44913.44913.4491
Seventeen-year-old Jack "Cowboy" Kelly (Christian Bale), is one of the hundreds of homeless and orphaned children who sell newspapers in New York City during the 1890s to support themselves. Jack and his fellow newsboys ("newsies" for short), work for Joseph Pulitzer selling his newspaper, the New York World, on the streets of Manhattan. The boys hit the streets of New York each morning, getting breakfast from nuns and heading toward the paper distribution center ("Carrying the Banner"). One morning at the distribution center, Jack meets David "Davey" Jacobs (David Moscow), who has joined the newsies along with his younger brother, Les. Jack notices that David is smart and well-spoken and that Les has a certain marketable cuteness to him, and he takes up a partnership with them in order to sell more papers and in turn earn more money.
Peter Gunn
Peter Gunn (1989)
, 1h30
Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Peter Strauss, Peter Jurasik, Jennifer Edwards, David Rappaport, Barbara Williams, Pearl Bailey
Roles Tony Amatti
Rating53% 2.6661452.6661452.6661452.6661452.666145
Le détective Peter Gunn (Peter Strauss) enquête sur la mort du frère d'un ami. Son enquête dérange à la fois la police et les truands locaux, ce qui lui attire plusieurs ennuis, sans lui donner envie de renoncer à découvrir la vérité.
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)
, 2h1
Directed by Guy Hamilton
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films
Actors Fred Ward, Joel Grey, Kate Mulgrew, Wilford Brimley, J. A. Preston, George Coe
Roles George Grove
Rating63% 3.1989753.1989753.1989753.1989753.198975
Sam Makin is a tough Brooklyn, New York City street cop and Vietnam-era Marine Corps veteran. He is unwillingly recruited as an assassin for a secret United States organization, CURE. The recruitment is through a bizarre method: his death is faked and he is given a new face and a new name. Rechristened "Remo Williams" (after the name and location of the manufacturer of the bedpan in Makin's hospital room), his face is surgically altered and he is trained to be a human killing machine by his aged, derisive and impassive Korean martial arts master Chiun.
Terror in the Aisles
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
, 1h24
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Documentary, Anthology film, Horror
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about films
Actors Donald Pleasence, Nancy Allen, Bud Abbott, Michael Ironside, Fred Asparagus, Brooke Adams
Roles Peter Cable (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rating62% 3.147833.147833.147833.147833.14783
Director Andrew J. Kuehn has excerpted brief segments of terror and suspense in a wide variety of suspenseful (including humorously so, ex. Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, Saturday the 14th) films and strung them together with added commentary, as well as some enacted narrative, to create a compilation of fright-inducing effects. Halloween actor Donald Pleasence and Dressed to Kill star Nancy Allen provide the commentary on topics such as "sex and terror" (Dressed to Kill, Klute, Ms. 45, The Seduction, When a Stranger Calls), loathsome villains (Dracula, Frankenstein, Friday the 13 1 and/or 2, Halloween I and II, Marathon Man, Nighthawks, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Touch of Evil, Vice Squad, Wait Until Dark, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?), "natural terror" (Alligator, The Birds, Frogs, Jaws 1 and 2, Nightwing) and the occult (An American Werewolf in London, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, The Omen, Carrie, The Shining). In one segment of the anthology, legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock presents his concepts of how to create suspense in a clip from Alfred Hitchcock: Men Who Made The Movies.
All the Right Moves
All the Right Moves (1983)
, 1h31
Directed by Michael Chapman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Sports films, American football films, Children's films
Actors Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson, Charles Cioffi, Gary Graham, Chris Penn
Roles Pop Djordjevic
Rating59% 2.9988952.9988952.9988952.9988952.998895
Stefan "Stef" Djordjevic (Tom Cruise) is a Serbian-American high school defensive back who is both gifted in sports and academics seeking a college football scholarship to escape the economically depressed small western Pennsylvania town of Ampipe and a dead-end job and life working at the mill like his father and brother Greg. Ampipe is a company town whose economy is dominated by the town's main employer, American Pipe & Steel, a steel mill struggling through the downturn of the early 1980s recession.
Missing
Missing (1982)
, 1h57
Directed by Costa-Gavras
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Janice Rule, Charles Cioffi
Roles Captain Ray Tower
Rating76% 3.8464253.8464253.8464253.8464253.846425
The film opens with Costa-Gavras' statement that the events of the film are true.
Time After Time
Time After Time (1979)
, 1h52
Directed by Nicholas Meyer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Time travel films
Actors Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen, Charles Cioffi, Patti D'Arbanville, Kent Williams
Roles Lt. Mitchell
Rating70% 3.5472953.5472953.5472953.5472953.547295
In 1893 London, popular writer Herbert George Wells (Malcolm McDowell) displays a time machine to his skeptical dinner guests. After he explains how it works (including a "non-return key" that keeps the machine at the traveler's destination and a "vaporizing equalizer" that keeps the traveler and machine on equal terms), police constables arrive at the house searching for Jack the Ripper. A bag with blood-stained gloves belonging to one of Herbert's friends, a surgeon named John Leslie Stevenson (David Warner), leads them to conclude that Stevenson might be the infamous killer. Wells races to his laboratory, but the time machine is gone.
Gray Lady Down
Gray Lady Down (1978)
, 1h51
Directed by David Greene
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Disaster films, American disaster films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Stacy Keach, Ned Beatty, Stephen McHattie, Ronny Cox
Roles Admiral Barnes
Rating62% 3.1015753.1015753.1015753.1015753.101575
Aging, respected commander Paul Blanchard (Heston) is on his final submarine tour before promotion to command of a submarine squadron (COMSUBRON). Surfaced and returning to port, the submarine, USS Neptune, is struck by a Norweigian freighter in route to New York in heavy fog, and sinks to a depth of 1,450 feet (442 meters) on a canyon ledge above the ocean floor. A United States Navy rescue force, commanded by Captain Bennett (Keach), arrives on the scene, but Neptune is subsequently rolled by a gravity slide to a greater angle that does not allow the Navy's Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle (DSRV) rescue submarine to complete its work.
The Other Side of Midnight
The Other Side of Midnight (1977)
, 2h45
Directed by Charles Jarrott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Children's films
Actors Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Susan Sarandon, Raf Vallone, Clu Gulager, Christian Marquand
Roles Chotas
Rating60% 3.0491253.0491253.0491253.0491253.049125
In World War II France, young and attractive Noelle Page (Marie-France Pisier) falls in love with Larry Douglas (John Beck), an American pilot of the Royal Canadian Air Force stationed in France. The couple has a torrid love affair that ends abruptly when Larry receives orders to return to the United States. Larry promises to come back for Noelle and marry her. She later finds out that she's pregnant with his child. However, he never returns.
The Accuser
The Accuser (1977)
, 1h42
Directed by Jean-Louis Bertuccelli
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Yanne, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michael Lonsdale, Marlène Jobert
Roles Marc Ganter
Rating62% 3.125383.125383.125383.125383.12538
Paris, tour Montparnasse, siège de la multinationale Rosserys & Mitchell. À la suite de la mort d'Arangrude, un cadre de l'entreprise, des messages anonymes visant la compagnie circulent dans tous les bureaux, semant l'inquiétude et le désordre. Plusieurs dirigeants décident de se lancer dans la chasse au mystérieux imprécateur. Tandis que soupçons et paranoïa s'emparent progressivement de tous, d'inquiétantes fissures menacent les fondations mêmes de l'immeuble…
The Next Man
The Next Man (1976)
, 1h26
Directed by Richard C. Sarafian
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Films about terrorism
Actors Sean Connery, Adolfo Celi, Charles Cioffi, Ted Beniades, Lance Henriksen, Jaime Sánchez
Roles Fouad
Rating49% 2.4598352.4598352.4598352.4598352.459835
The film is set during the Arab oil embargo of 1976. Khalil Abdul-Muhsen (Connery) is the Saudi Arabian minister of state who proposes to recognize Israel, support Israeli membership in OPEC and sell Saudi oil to needy nations. His plan is to protect third-world nations from the threat of Cold War ideology. Khalil's radical agenda and idealism finds few friends and he is soon the target of multiple assassination attempts by Arab terrorist groups.