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Joe Pantoliano

Joseph Peter Pantoliano is an American actor who has played over 150 roles across film, television, and theater. He is best known for portraying Ralph "Ralphie" Cifaretto on the HBO crime drama The Sopranos (1999–2007), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, and Cypher in the sci-fi action film The Matrix (1999). After early roles in the television series M* A * S * H and the comedy film Risky Business, Pantoliano gained recognition for numerous supporting roles in films and television shows such as Hill Street Blues, The Goonies, La Bamba, Empire of the Sun, Midnight Run, NYPD Blue, Memento, and Bad Boys and its sequels. He also appeared in The Fugitive and its spin-off U.S. Marshals. He began working with the Wachowskis in their directorial debut Bound, and later appeared in their film The Matrix and their sci-fi series Sense8.

Known For: Acting

Born: Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, 1951-09-12

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1978	More Than Friends	Ralphie	0
2	1980	Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story	Ray Neal	45
3	1980	The Idolmaker	Gino Pilato	55
4	1982	Monsignor	Pvt. Joe Musso	44
5	1983	The Final Terror	Eggar	51
6	1983	Risky Business	Guido	66
7	1983	Eddie and the Cruisers	Doc Robbins	66
8	1984	Mister Roberts	Insigna	68
9	1985	The Mean Season	Andy Porter	63
10	1985	The Goonies	Francis Fratelli	75
11	1986	Running Scared	Snake	61
12	1986	L.A. Law: Pilot	Ralph Cavanaugh	0
13	1986	Roger Rabbit Screen Test	Eddie Valiant (uncredited)	0
14	1987	Destination: America	Lt. Mike Amico	0
15	1987	The Squeeze	Norman	48
16	1987	La Bamba	Bob Keane	73
17	1987	Scenes From the Goldmine	Manny Ricci	44
18	1987	Amazon Women on the Moon	Sy Swerdlow (segment "Hairlooming")	59
19	1987	Empire of the Sun	Frank Demarest	75
20	1987	The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun	Self	63
21	1988	The In Crowd	Perry Parker	60
22	1988	Rock 'N Roll Mum	Ronnie	33
23	1988	Midnight Run	Eddie Moscone, Bail Bonder	72
24	1989	Nightbreaker	Sgt. Jack Russell	64
25	1990	Downtown	White	57
26	1990	The Last of the Finest	Wayne Gross	59
27	1990	Short Time	Scalese	64
28	1990	El Diablo	Kid Durango	56
29	1990	Backstreet Dreams	Paul (uncredited)	50
30	1991	Zandalee	Gerri	44
31	1991	One Special Victory	Daniel	0
32	1992	Through the Eyes of a Killer	Jerry	57
33	1992	Used People	Frank	55
34	1993	Three of Hearts	Mickey	48
35	1993	The Fugitive	Cosmo Renfro	75
36	1993	Calendar Girl	Harvey Darpinian	51
37	1993	Me and the Kid	Roy	47
38	1994	Dangerous Heart	Barclay	50
39	1994	Robot in the Family	Jack Shamir	17
40	1994	Teresa's Tattoo	Bruno	49
41	1994	The Flight of the Dove	Attorney Brezner	46
42	1994	Baby's Day Out	Norby	64
43	1995	Bad Boys	Captain Howard	68
44	1995	Congo	Eddie Ventro (Uncredited)	56
45	1995	The Last Word	Doc	25
46	1995	Steal Big Steal Little	Eddie Agopian	43
47	1995	The Immortals	Pete	57
48	1996	Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice	Det. Meyer Meyer	70
49	1996	Bound	Caesar	72
50	1996	Natural Enemy	Stuart	45
51	1997	Tinseltown	Arnie	30
52	1997	Top of the World	Vince Castor	50
53	1997	Pitch	Self	63
54	1998	U.S. Marshals	Renfro	65
55	1998	Hoods	Charlie Flynn	66
56	1999	The Matrix	Cypher	82
57	1999	Black and White	Bill King	47
58	1999	The Life Before This	Jake Maclean	45
59	1999	Taxman	Al Benjamin	35
60	1999	Making 'The Matrix'	Self	72
61	1999	New Blood	Hellman	52
62	1999	Olive, The Other Reindeer	Martini (voice)	68
63	2000	Silver Man	Norbert	35
64	2000	Ready to Rumble	Titus Sinclair	52
65	2000	Memento	Teddy	82
66	2000	The Making of Olive, The Other Reindeer	Self	60
67	2001	Cats & Dogs	Peek (voice)	54
68	2001	A Better Way to Die	Flash	57
69	2002	The Adventures of Pluto Nash	Mogan	44
70	2003	Daredevil	Ben Urich	53
71	2003	Bad Boys II	Captain Howard	66
72	2003	Beyond Hell's Kitchen: Making 'Daredevil'		0
73	2004	Second Best	Elliot	53
74	2004	Perfect Opposites	Louis Carbonelli	56
75	2004	The Easter Egg Adventure	Terrible Timothy Takit (voice)	55
76	2005	Racing Stripes	Goose (voice)	59
77	2005	The Check Up	The Inspector	0
78	2006	Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector	Mayor M.T. Gunn	38
79	2006	The Amateurs	Some Idiot	56
80	2006	Wedding Daze	Smitty	55
81	2006	...So Goes the Nation	Self	68
82	2006	Deceit	Anthony	38
83	2006	Unknown	Bound Man	62
84	2006	Canvas	John Marino	65
85	2008	The Dream is Always the Same: The Story of Risky Business	Self	55
86	2009	No Kidding, Me Too!	Himself	0
87	2009	The Job	Perriman	41
88	2009	Falling Up	George	54
89	2010	Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief	Gabe Ugliano	62
90	2010	Deadly Impact	David Kaplow	48
91	2010	Making of a Cult Classic: The Unauthorized Story of 'The Goonies'	Self	80
92	2010	New York Street Games	Self	0
93	2010	Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore	Peek (voice)	52
94	2010	The Legend of Secret Pass	Chuckster (voice)	57
95	2012	Loosies	Carl	57
96	2012	Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life	Oswald	43
97	2012	12-12-12 \| The Concert for Sandy Relief	Self	68
98	2014	Hail Ceasar with Joe Pantoliano	Self	0
99	2014	The Identical	Avi Hirshberg	51
100	2016	The Perfect Match	Marty	55
101	2017	Random Tropical Paradise	Vincent Gambazzo	44
102	2017	Just Getting Started	Joey	49
103	2018	Happy Anniversary	Aldo	57
104	2018	Lake Placid: Legacy	Henderson	50
105	2019	The Brawler	Al Braverman	43
106	2019	Feast of the Seven Fishes	Uncle Frankie	67
107	2019	From the Vine	Marco Gentile	56
108	2020	Bad Boys for Life	Captain Howard	71
109	2021	A Journey to Sundance	Self	0
110	2021	The Santa Stakeout	Mr. Miller	61
111	2021	Hide and Seek	Collin Carmichael	47
112	2024	Home Delivery	Gary Templeton	0
113	2024	Bad Boys: Ride or Die	Captain Howard	74
114	2024	Bad Boys: Legacy	Self	60
115		I Took My Avocado to Aspen, Colorado	Narrator	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1972	MAS*H	Gerald Mullen	79
2	1978	Free Country		50
3	1979	From Here to Eternity	Pvt. Angelo Maggio	68
4	1979	Hart to Hart		68
5	1980	Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story	Ray Neal	50
6	1981	Hill Street Blues		76
7	1981	Hill Street Blues	Sonny Orsini	76
8	1981	Simon & Simon		67
9	1983	Hardcastle and McCormick	Teddy Hollins	64
10	1983	The Hitchhiker	Brother Charles	61
11	1985	Robert Kennedy & His Times	Roy Cohn	70
12	1985	Amazing Stories	Joe	75
13	1986	L.A. Law	Ralph Cavanaugh	71
14	1987	Beverly Hills Buntz	Jimmy Montaigne	50
15	1989	Tales from the Crypt	Ulric (segment "Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone")	80
16	1989	Tales from the Crypt	Casino Dealer (uncredited)	80
17	1989	The Simpsons	Dante Calabresi Sr. (voice)	80
18	1990	The Fanelli Boys	Dominic Fanelli	60
19	1991	Civil Wars	Stan DeMarco	20
20	1992	Highlander: The Series	Doctor Wilder	74
21	1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest	72
22	1994	Beethoven	Sparky (voice)	70
23	1994	Life with Louie	Jojo Stomopolous (voice)	68
24	1995	The Outer Limits	Stan Harbinger	77
25	1996	Arliss		67
26	1996	EZ Streets	Jimmy Murtha	64
27	1997	The View	Self	45
28	1998	Godzilla: The Series	Victor "Animal" Palotti (voice)	80
29	1998	The Lionhearts	(voice)	20
30	1999	The Sopranos	Ralph Cifaretto	87
31	1999	Roswell	Kal Langley	77
32	2001	Good Day Live	Self	30
33	2003	The Handler	Joe Renato	64
34	2004	The Tony Danza Show	Self - Guest	61
35	2004	Dr. Vegas		45
36	2005	But Can They Sing?		0
37	2015	Sense8	Michael Gorski	78
38	2016	MacGyver	Eric Andrews	73
39	2019	Tacoma FD	Eddie Penisi, Sr	78
40	2019	Tacoma FD	Eddie Penisi Sr.	78
41	2020	Reunited Apart	Self	55
42	2021	Chucky	Joe Pantoliano	78
43	2023	The Last of Us	Eugene Lynden	85
44	2024	Dexter: Original Sin	Anthony Moretti	83