Frank Adonis

Frank Adonis

Birth : 1935-10-27, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Death : 2018-12-26

History

Frank Adonis (born October 27, 1935), sometimes credited as Frank Martin, is an American film and television actor. He was born Frank Testaverde Scioscia in Brooklyn, New York. Adonis is a long-time character actor frequently cast in gangster roles.

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Frank Adonis

Movies

The Trouble with Cali
Uncle Vito
The Woods Have Eyes
Writer
When a group of young campers wander into the backwoods of upstate New York to see if Cappy's Cabin--a place they think exists only in urban legend--is real, they find themselves in a twisted game of predator and prey as night begins to fall. All they have to do is survive until dawn, but Cappy is very, very real, and night has only just begun...
The Woods Have Eyes
Bubba
When a group of young campers wander into the backwoods of upstate New York to see if Cappy's Cabin--a place they think exists only in urban legend--is real, they find themselves in a twisted game of predator and prey as night begins to fall. All they have to do is survive until dawn, but Cappy is very, very real, and night has only just begun...
Saddam
Joe DIBello
The story of two Italian men who are posted to Iraq on a mysterious mission to guard the cell of a prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison. What's strange is that neither man knows who is inside; they must simply follow orders not to let anyone enter or leave the cell. As time passes their nerves are tested and they begin to wonder whether their charge could be Saddam Hussein...
Find Me Guilty
Phil Radda
Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.
High Times Potluck
Frank
High Times' Pot Luck is an upbeat pot caper that centers around a mobster who discovers the magic of marijuana.
Black and White
Frank
Rich Bower is an up-and-coming star in the hip-hop world. Everyone wants to be around him, including Raven and her fellow upper-class white high school friends. The growing appeal of black culture among white teens fascinates documentary filmmaker Sam Donager, who sets out to chronicle it with her husband, Terry. But before Bower was a rapper, he was a gangster, and his criminal past comes back to haunt him and all those around him.
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Valerio's Bodyguard
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of ancient Japan finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
The Juror
DeCicco
With his gangster boss on trial for murder, a mob thug known as "the Teacher" tells Annie Laird she must talk her fellow jurors into a not-guilty verdict, implying that he'll kill her son Oliver if she fails. She manages to do this, but, when it becomes clear that the mobsters might want to silence her for good, she sends Oliver abroad and tries to gather evidence of the plot against her, setting up a final showdown.
Casino
Rocky
In early-1970s Las Vegas, Sam "Ace" Rothstein gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. At first, he's a great success in the job, but over the years, problems with his loose-cannon enforcer Nicky Santoro, his ex-hustler wife Ginger, her con-artist ex Lester Diamond and a handful of corrupt politicians put Sam in ever-increasing danger.
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Vinnie
He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!
Finding Interest
The Godfather
Barney Barnaby was alone, stuck in a life that seem to be heading straight to nowhere. He could only find excitement in the larger-than-life world of action films. Looking for real life adventure, Barney hires a hitman to have himself killed.
True Romance
Frankie
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Bad Lieutenant
Large
While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
GoodFellas
Anthony Stabile
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
King of New York
Paul Calgari
A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.
Spike of Bensonhurst
Vinaca
Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob, and then goes to a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican part of Brooklyn.
Wall Street
Charlie
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.
Wolfen
Scola
A New York City cop and an expert criminologist trying to solve a series of grisly deaths in which the victims have seemingly been maimed by feral animals discover a sinister connection between the crimes and an old legend.
Raging Bull
Patsy
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
Eyes of Laura Mars
Sal Volpe
A famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a serial killer.
The Gambler
Man in Park with Donny (as Frank Scioscia)
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
The Sister in Law
Benjo
Robert and Edward are brothers involved in a web of adultery and deceit. They share Edward's wife and his mistress and a mission to deliver a package of jewels across the Canadian border, but the mission turns out to be deadly.
Shaft's Big Score!
Rip
John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.