Dennis Farina
Donaldo Gugliermo "Dennis" Farina (February 29, 1944 – July 22, 2013) was an American actor. Often typecast as a mobster or police officer, he is known for roles such as FBI Agent Jack Crawford in Manhunter, mobster Jimmy Serrano in the comedy Midnight Run, Ray "Bones" Barboni in Get Shorty, Cousin Avi in Snatch, and Walt Miller in New Girl. He starred on television as Lieutenant Mike Torello on Crime Story and as NYPD Detective Joe Fontana on Law & Order. From 2008 to 2010, he hosted and narrated the television program Unsolved Mysteries on Spike TV. His last major television role was in HBO's Luck, which premiered on January 29, 2012.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.258 |
| Birthday | 1944-02-29 |
| Place of Birth | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Also Known As | 데니스 패리나, دنیس فارینا, |
2000
Snatch
7.814/9198
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down...
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Snatch
1998
Saving Private Ryan
8.2/16112
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain Joh...
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Saving Private Ryan
1998
Out of Sight
6.7/1292
Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the ri...
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Out of Sight
2000
Reindeer Games
5.7/664
After assuming his dead cellmate's identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the reluctant participant in a casino heist.
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Reindeer Games
2002
Big Trouble
6.1/296
The story of how a mysterious suitcase brings together, and changes, the lives of a divorced dad, an unhappy housewife, two hitmen, a pair of street t...
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Big Trouble
2007
Purple Violets
5.9/46
Patti Petalson is a promising writer, but her marriage and conventional job keep her from her dream. She longs to return to her writing, especially af...
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Purple Violets
1993
Striking Distance
5.9/825
Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop, and goes on...
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Striking Distance
1985
Code of Silence
5.9/211
A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
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Code of Silence
1996
Eddie
5.475/163
Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre r...
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Eddie
1981
Thief
7.18/718
Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime an...
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Thief
2001
Sidewalks of New York
6.146/65
The film follows the marital and dating lives of three men and three women who unknowingly form a tangled web of relationships. Interspersing "man on...
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Sidewalks of New York
1994
Little Big League
5.8/97
When the owner of the Minnesota Twins passes away, he bequeaths the team to his preteen grandson. The newly minted head honcho quickly appoints himsel...
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Little Big League
1986
Manhunter
7.002/1378
FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecter, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a ne...
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Manhunter
1995
Get Shorty
6.5/1076
Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood produc...
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Get Shorty
2007
You Kill Me
6.1/274
While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return...
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You Kill Me
2007
Bagboy
4.1/11
Bagboy is the "from bags to riches" story of a lowly grocery store clerk who endeavors to win the international competitive bagging championships and...
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Bagboy
1993
Another Stakeout
5.5/224
A pair of immature detectives are joined by a pesky assistant district attorney in staking out a lakeside home where an important Mafia trial witness...
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Another Stakeout
1988
Midnight Run
7.2/1115
A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who embezzled $15 million of mob money. He is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I....
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Midnight Run
2008
What Happens in Vegas
6.091/3082
During a wild vacation in Las Vegas, career woman Joy McNally and playboy Jack Fuller come to the sober realization that they have married each other...
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What Happens in Vegas
2002
Stealing Harvard
4.8/138
John and his girlfriend have vowed to marry once they save $30,000 for their dream house. But the minute they achieve their financial goal, John finds...
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Stealing Harvard
1997
That Old Feeling
6.246/61
A bride's divorced parents find their old feelings for each other during the wedding reception and over the course of the next few days upsetting the...
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That Old Feeling
1993
A Stranger in the Mirror
3.7/3
A naive young woman arrives in Hollywood to become a star, but after she gets drugged and raped during a shoot, she hardens quickly and catches the ey...
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A Stranger in the Mirror
2008
Bottle Shock
6.3/205
Paris-based wine expert Steven Spurrier heads to California in search of cheap wine that he can use for a blind taste test in the French capital. Stum...
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Bottle Shock
2007
The Grand
6/88
The Grand is in the tradition of improvisational comedies like Best In Show and This Is Spinal Tap. The story is set in the world of professional poke...
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The Grand
2004
Paparazzi
5.313/193
A rising Hollywood actor decides to take personal revenge against a group of four persistent photographers to make them pay for almost causing a perso...
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Paparazzi
1986
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
6.6/28
Although Jo Jo Dancer has achieved success as a stand-up comedian, he hasn't found happiness. After receiving severe burns in a narcotics-related inci...
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Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
2010
Knucklehead
5.656/61
A fight promoter deeply in debt to his crooked rival and desperate for a new fighter catches a break when a 450 pound church handyman who has spent hi...
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Knucklehead
1999
The Mod Squad
4.3/122
Three youthful delinquents escape conviction for their crimes by teaming with the LAPD.
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The Mod Squad
1997
Bella Mafia
6.8/25
Following the brutal murder of her husband and male kin, Sophia unites with her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law, in a fierce quest for vengeance agai...
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Bella Mafia
2000
Bad Seed
5.8/5
Preston Tylk is an ordinary guy living in Seattle. When he discovers that his wife, Emily, whom he adores, is having an affair, he is devastated. Stor...
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Bad Seed
2011
The Last Rites of Joe May
5.8/15
Now in his sixties, Joe is released from the hospital after a long battle with pneumonia and forced to confront the harsh reality of his legacy: every...
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The Last Rites of Joe May
1987
Six Against the Rock
4.9/4
In May of 1946, Alcatraz inmate Bernie Coy initiates a carefully thought out plan to escape the island prison. His plan, carried out with five accompl...
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Six Against the Rock
1985
Final Jeopardy
6.3/7
A small-town couple find themselves stranded in an unfamiliar, and unfriendly, big city. Weaving in and out of the proceedings are a bunch of murderou...
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Final Jeopardy
1989
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
6.3/14
The chilling true story of the "two of a kind" killing cousins, Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers.
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The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
1986
Birthday Boy
5/3
A salesman in a sporting-goods store takes a cross-country trip on his birthday in order to visit his old gym coach, and sell him a supply of basketba...
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Birthday Boy
2014
Authors Anonymous
4.7/53
When a dysfunctional group of unpublished writers accept Hannah into their fold, the last thing they expect is her overnight success. Can these lovabl...
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Authors Anonymous
1992
Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
5/1
This follow-up to "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" chronicles the fact-based fight by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Colombian government to...
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Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
2005
The Making of 'Heat'
6.5/2
Behind the scenes documentary on the classic Michael Mann heist film.
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The Making of 'Heat'
1992
We're Talkin' Serious Money
5/4
A couple of bumbling con men go on the lam when they can't repay a loan from the mob.
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We're Talkin' Serious Money
1990
People Like Us
6/2
When a wealthy scriptwriter and socialite's daughter is murdered, he feels let down by the courts, and so decides to use his powerful position to enab...
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People Like Us
2014
Lucky Stiff
5/6
An English shoe salesman inherits 6 million dollars from a recently deceased uncle he has never met before, on the condition that he takes the uncle's...
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Lucky Stiff
1988
Open Admissions
0/0
An indifferent speech professor doing hack work in an urban college suddenly finds herself challenged by a ghetto youth with an intense desire to get...
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Open Admissions
1990
Men Of Respect
4.7/20
In this modern day version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a hitman heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that he will rise to the head of his family. He starts...
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Men Of Respect
2001
Making 'Snatch'
6.2/18
The making of Guy Ritchie's 'Snatch'.
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Making 'Snatch'
1984
Hard Knox
8/2
A retired fighter pilot becomes the head of his alma matter military high school for two weeks with hilarious consequences. He shapes up the school an...
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Hard Knox
1986
Crime Story: Pilot
8.333/3
One former cop goes against the whole Mafia. The feature-length pilot for the cult 80s show.
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Crime Story: Pilot
1994
One Woman's Courage
0/0
Because Grace's husband Craig is having an affair she starts drinking. One night Grace witnesses a man attacking a girl; she helps her to the hospital...
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One Woman's Courage
1994
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
6/1
The Corpse had a Familiar Face is a 1994 American TV-Movie with Elizabeth Montgomery, playing Edna Buchanan, a Miami's criminal journalist.
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The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
1993
Romeo Is Bleeding
6.285/188
A corrupt cop gets in over his head when he tries to assassinate a beautiful Russian hit-woman.
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Romeo Is Bleeding
1983
Through Naked Eyes
4.2/5
A musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite him--until he finds out one day that an attractiv...
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Through Naked Eyes
1995
Out of Annie's Past
5.7/3
Annie's got a secret past she's eager to hide from her husband and her family. An iconclastic bounty hunter blackmails her to keep that past a secret....
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Out of Annie's Past
1995
Bonanza: Under Attack
6.7/8
After a rogue band of Pinkerton detectives led by ruthless Charley Siringo bushwhacks reformed outlaw Frank James, he seeks sanctuary on the Ponderosa...
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Bonanza: Under Attack
1984
The Killing Floor
8/2
During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the orga...
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The Killing Floor
1993
The Disappearance of Nora
5/1
A beautiful woman is found stranded in the desert with no recollection of who she is or how she got there, so a casino boss makes it his mission to he...
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The Disappearance of Nora
2004
This Old Cub
0/0
Jeff Santo explores the life and career of his father, Chicago Cub great Ron Santo.
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This Old Cub
1992
Mac
5.8/29
Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli is the eldest of three brothers in 1950s Queens. Mac is a construction builder, a trade he learned from his late father, and hel...
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Mac
1992
The American Gangster
10/1
They fixed the World Series. They built Las Vegas. They terrorized America with their vicious murders and fearless robberies. They are men named Bugsy...
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The American Gangster
1990
Havana
5.8/150
During the revolution, a high-stakes gambler arrives in Cuba seeking to win big in poker games. Along the way, he meets and falls in love with the wif...
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Havana
1992
Street Crimes
5.1/7
When two cops start a gym to help keep kids out of the drug trade, the local crime lord schemes to keep control of the streets. Meanwhile, officer Bri...
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Street Crimes
2006
Wait 'Til Next Year: The Saga of the Chicago Cubs
0/0
Using the frame of opening day, 2006, this documentary examines the Cubs' 100 years without a World Series title. Between conversations with a half-do...
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Wait 'Til Next Year: The Saga of the Chicago Cubs
1991
Perfect Crimes
5/2
True stories about individuals seeking to commit a perfect crime.
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Perfect Crimes
1984
The Impostor
6/1
After being released from prison, small-time con artist Cade tracks down his old girlfriend. When she rebuffs him, he fakes his past in order to get h...
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The Impostor
1986
Triplecross
5.8/4
Three cops become instant millionaires after saving a rich crime victim. They retire from the force and use their money to become flamboyant private d...
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