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Louis Guss is a Actor American born on 4 january 1918 at New York City (USA)
Louis Guss (January 4, 1918 – September 29, 2008) was an American character actor with a long line of screen credits, having appeared in hundreds of TV series, feature films and stage productions, specializing in blue-collar ethnic roles, over a five decade career. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Don Zaluchi in The Godfather, Raymond Capomaggi in Moonstruck and Joseph Magliocco in Crazy Joe.
His last role was in Sidney Lumet's Find Me Guilty in 2006.
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His last role was in Sidney Lumet's Find Me Guilty in 2006.
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The Yards (2000)
, 1h55Directed by James Gray
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron, James Caan, Ellen Burstyn, Faye Dunaway
Roles Nathan Grodner
Rating63%
Leo Handler (Mark Wahlberg) rides the subway to his mother's house in Queens, New York, where she throws a surprise party in honor of his parole. His cousin Erica (Charlize Theron) is at the party with her boyfriend Willie Gutierrez (Joaquin Phoenix). Willie takes Leo aside and thanks him for serving time in prison, implying that Leo had taken a fall for their gang of friends.
The Crew (2000)
, 1h28Directed by Michael Dinner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Burt Reynolds, Seymour Cassel, Richard Dreyfuss, Dan Hedaya, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jeremy Piven
Rating56%
Four retired mobsters (Richard Dreyfuss, Burt Reynolds, Dan Hedaya and Seymour Cassel) plan one last crime to save their apartment at a retirement home (the owners are forcing them out with a rent increase so that the apartments can be rented to young, affluent South Beach couples). The four steal a corpse from the mortuary to use as the "victim" in a staged murder scene. Unknown to them, the body belonged to the head of a Colombian drug smuggling ring. As a result of the "murder", many of the young renters leave and the four men are given cash and a rent discount by the complex to keep living there. Much of this money is spent on high living and women, which causes a young woman (Jennifer Tilly) to discover that the four men staged the murder - while spending time with the normally-silent "Mouth," he reveals that his mouth is loosened by intimacy with women.
Girlfight (2000)
, 1h50Directed by Karyn Kusama
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Michelle Rodríguez, Paul Calderon, Ray Santiago, Louis Guss, Tara Strong, Shannon Walker Williams
Roles Don
Rating66%
Diana Guzman is a Brooklyn teenager whose hot temper gets her into trouble at school as she repeatedly starts fights with other students. Her frustration stems from her unhappy home life; she lives in a public housing estate with her brother Tiny and their single father, Sandro. Sandro pays for Tiny's boxing training in hopes of his becoming a professional boxer, although Tiny would prefer to be an artist. After visiting Tiny's gym and intervening in a spar to defend him, Diana asks the trainers to let her box, too. She is told she can train there, but not compete in actual fights. When she learns that she cannot afford coaching from Tiny's trainer, Hector Soto, she asks her father for an allowance but he tells her to get a job. She resorts to stealing his money instead and returns to the gym, where Hector begins to teach her the basics of boxing.
Two Family House (2000)
, 1h44Directed by Raymond De Felitta
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Michael Rispoli, Kelly Macdonald, Kathrine Narducci, Kevin Conway, Matt Servitto, Vincent Pastore
Rating71%
An unseen narrator (who we gradually come to learn is telling the story of his mother and step-father's romance) looks back to the year 1956, in the Elm Park neighborhood of Staten Island, New York, to one Buddy Visalo (Rispoli), an Italian guy with "Ralph Kramdenesque" dreams. Buddy is a wannabe crooner (with a voiceover provided by Andrew Poretz). Buddy had nearly been discovered by Arthur Godfrey ten years earlier (shown in flashback) when he performed at a USO show while in the service. His fiancée, Estelle (Narducci), gave him a Hobson's choice: “Who's it gonna be, Buddy, Arthur Godfrey or me?” In a decision he’ll live to regret the rest of his life, he chooses Estelle, and over the next 10 years tries all sorts of schemes to get ahead. “I just wanna be somebody!” he’ll declare.
Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)
, 1h54Directed by Sidney Lumet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes La corruption policière
Actors Andy García, Ian Holm, James Gandolfini, Lena Olin, Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Leibman
Roles Court Clerk
Rating65%
Detectives Liam Casey (Ian Holm) and Joey Allegretto (James Gandolfini) are conducting a surveillance operation to apprehend Jordan Washington (Shiek Mahmud-Bey), a notorious drug dealer. On a tip from an informant, they venture into a building where Washington is presumed to be hiding. Washington preemptively fires a submachine gun through his front door, seriously wounding Casey. Police backup units arrive and swarm the building, but Washington executes a cunning escape in an NYPD squad car after murdering two police officers, while police officers mistakenly kill another one.
Used People (1993)
, 1h55Directed by Beeban Kidron
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Shirley MacLaine, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Marcello Mastroianni, Marcia Gay Harden, Sylvia Sidney
Rating1%
The Cemetery Club (1993)
, 1h46Directed by Bill Duke
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Olympia Dukakis, Ellen Burstyn, Diane Ladd, Danny Aiello, Lainie Kazan, Christina Ricci
Roles Ed Bonfigliano
Rating57%
Based on the play by Ivan Menchell, this comedy-drama concerns three friends, Doris (Olympia Dukakis), Lucille (Diane Ladd), and Esther (Ellen Burstyn). All three live in the same Jewish community in Pittsburgh, are in their mid-to-late 50s, and have become widows within the past few years. Once a week, they gather to visit their husbands' graves and meet at a deli afterward to talk about their lives.
American Blue Note (1989)
, 1h37Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Peter MacNicol, Tim Guinee, Charlotte d'Amboise, Jonathan Lloyd Walker, Louis Guss, Zohra Lampert
Rating68%
The film follows a group of jazz musicians in the 1960s who play in small clubs and face constant financial hardships. Of the group, only one of them will go on to achieve success.
Slaves of New York (1989)
, 2h4Directed by James Ivory
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Bernadette Peters, Chris Sarandon, Mary Beth Hurt, Madeleine Potter, Adam Coleman Howard, Steve Buscemi
Roles Vardig
Rating57%
The story follows Eleanor, an aspiring hat designer, and a group of artists and models in the "downtown" New York City art world. Eleanor lives with her younger boyfriend Stash, an unknown artist, who is unfaithful and treats Eleanor with careless indifference. Eleanor expresses her feelings for Stash when she tells him that she was once attracted to him because he was dangerous. She stays with him despite the crumbling relationship because she has nowhere else to live—she is, in effect, a "slave."
Moonstruck (1988)
, 1h42Directed by Norman Jewison
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about immigration
Actors Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Vincent Gardenia, Danny Aiello, Julie Bovasso
Roles Raymond Capomaggi
Rating71%
Thirty-seven-year-old Loretta Castorini (Cher), a Sicilian-American widow, is an accountant in Brooklyn Heights, New York, where she lives with her family: her father Cosmo (Vincent Gardenia) who is a successful plumber, her mother Rose (Olympia Dukakis), and her paternal grandfather (Feodor Chaliapin, Jr). Her boyfriend, Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello) proposes to her before leaving for Sicily to attend to his dying mother; she accepts, but is insistent that they carefully follow tradition as she believes her first marriage was cursed by her failure to do so, resulting in her husband's death when he was hit by a bus. They plan to marry one month later, and Johnny asks Loretta to invite his estranged younger brother Ronny (Nicolas Cage) to the wedding. Loretta returns home and informs her parents of the engagement. Cosmo dislikes Johnny and is reluctant to commit to paying for the "real" wedding Loretta insists on, while Rose is pleased that Loretta likes Johnny but does not love him; she believes that one can easily be driven crazy by a partner whom one loves.
Highlander (1986)
, 1h56Directed by Russell Mulcahy, Stephen Hopkins
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Time travel films, Children's films, Immortalité
Actors Christophe Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, Roxanne Hart, Alan North, Jon Polito
Roles Newsvendor
Rating69%
Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez In 1985, Connor MacLeod, also known as the Highlander, is in New York City. In an arena parking garage, Connor is confronted by fellow immortal Iman Fasil, and decapitates him, upon which an energy surge destroys several cars around him. Police swarm the exit to the garage, and arrest Connor.
Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter (1986)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Paul Sorvino, Abe Vigoda, Ina Balin, Lorne Greene, June Wilkinson, William Horace Marshall
Roles Grandpa Ragon
Rating41%
After his wife gives birth to their eighth child, a bank executive reluctantly agrees to go through with a vasectomy.
Seize the Day (1986)
, 1h33Directed by Fielder Cook
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Robin Williams, Jerry Stiller, Louis Guss, John Fiedler, Joseph Wiseman, Richard B. Shull
Roles Rubin
Rating57%
After losing his job, his girlfriend, and his sanity, Salesman Tommy Wilhelm (Williams) packs up for New York City to try to repair the pieces of his broken life. His skill as a salesman comes naturally, but his strained relationship with his father (Joseph Wiseman) certainly does not. Tommy must face the father he never really knew while trying to balance the new life that he attempts to carve out for himself.
Willie and Phil (1980)
, 1h55Directed by Paul Mazursky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Margot Kidder, Michael Ontkean, Ray Sharkey, Laurence Fishburne, Jerry Hall, Natalie Wood
Roles Mr. D'Amico
Rating58%
The film is set in the 1970s and amidst the counterculture chic of that era. Willie, a high school English teacher who plays jazz piano (Michael Ontkean), and Phil, a fashion photographer (Ray Sharkey), meet coming out of the Bleecker Street Cinema where Jules et Jim has just been shown and become friends. They both fall in love with Jeannette, a girl from Kentucky (Margot Kidder).
Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
, 1h39Directed by Ted Kotcheff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors George Segal, Jane Fonda, Sean Frye, Ed McMahon, Dick Gautier, Allan Miller
Roles Phone Co. Customer
Rating63%
An upper-middle-class couple, Dick and Jane Harper, hits a hump in their living the good life when the husband loses his job. Falling through the cracks of society in the United States, they then become high-class thieves to get back all they lost.