Joe Pesci
Joseph Frank “Joe” Pesci (born February 9, 1943) is an American actor, comedian, singer and musician. He is known for his roles as violent mobsters, funnymen, comic foils and quirky sidekicks. Pesci has starred in a number of high profile films such as Goodfellas, Casino, Raging Bull, Once Upon a Time in America, My Cousin Vinny, Easy Money, JFK, Moonwalker, Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Lethal Weapon films. In 1990, Pesci won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the psychopathic mobster Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas, ten years after receiving a nomination in the same category for Raging Bull.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 44.064 |
Birthday | 1943-02-09 |
Place of Birth | Newark, New Jersey, USA |
Also Known As | Joseph Frank Pesci, Joey Dee, Joseph „Joe“ Francesco DeLores Eliot Pesci , |
1984
Once Upon a Time in America
8.4/5437
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the gh...
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Once Upon a Time in America
1998
Lethal Weapon 4
6.59/2642
Officers Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh of the Los Angeles Police Department must stop a dangerous crime lord from China from getting his brother out...
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Lethal Weapon 4
1989
Lethal Weapon 2
7.015/3386
In the opening chase, Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh stumble across a trunk full of Krugerrands. They follow the trail to a South African diplomat wh...
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Lethal Weapon 2
1992
Lethal Weapon 3
6.696/2902
Archetypal buddy cops Riggs and Murtaugh are back for another round of high-stakes action, this time setting their collective sights on bringing down...
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Lethal Weapon 3
1995
Casino
8/5847
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 ov...
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Casino
2006
The Good Shepherd
6.331/1151
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young...
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The Good Shepherd
1980
Raging Bull
7.9/4335
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.
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Raging Bull
1993
A Bronx Tale
7.861/2505
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime b...
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A Bronx Tale
1990
GoodFellas
8.457/12994
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...
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GoodFellas
1990
Home Alone
7.4/11401
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. Wh...
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Home Alone
1992
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
6.8/9760
Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems f...
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
1991
JFK
7.6/2117
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
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JFK
1992
My Cousin Vinny
7.5/1592
Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - V...
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My Cousin Vinny
2005
Raging Bull: After the Fight
8/0
The fourth and final installment about the production of "Raging Bull."
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Raging Bull: After the Fight
2005
Raging Bull: Outside the Ring
8/1
The third part about the production of "Raging Bull."
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Raging Bull: Outside the Ring
1994
Jimmy Hollywood
5.195/64
Jimmy Alto is an actor wannabe who stumbles into the role of a lifetime. He becomes a vigilante crime-fighter, aided by his sidekick William, who has...
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Jimmy Hollywood
1992
The Public Eye
6.2/86
A crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.
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The Public Eye
1997
Gone Fishin'
4.8/147
Two fishing fanatics get in trouble when their fishing boat gets stolen while on a trip.
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Gone Fishin'
1988
Moonwalker
6.9/541
Moonwalker is a 1988 American experimental anthology musical film starring Michael Jackson. Rather than featuring one continuous narrative, the film e...
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Moonwalker
2024
Day of the Fight
8.5/4
On the day of his first fight since his release from prison, a once-renowned boxer embarks on a redemptive journey through his past and present.
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Day of the Fight
1997
8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
5/160
Mafia hitman Tommy Spinelli is flying to San Diego with a bag that holds eight severed heads, which he's bringing to his superiors to prove that some...
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8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
1983
Eureka
5.2/70
An Alaskan gold prospector lives in luxury with his family on an island which gangsters want.
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Eureka
1976
Family Enforcer
6.5/17
A kid from the neighborhood goes to work for the Mafia as a collector.
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Family Enforcer
1994
With Honors
6.777/205
Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who m...
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With Honors
2005
Raging Bull: Before the Fight
10/2
The first part of a four-part documentary about the production of "Raging Bull."
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Raging Bull: Before the Fight
2010
Love Ranch
5.39/50
Story of a couple that starts the first legal brothel in Nevada and a boxer they own a piece of.
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Love Ranch
1984
All for the Moral Majority!
5.615/26
The incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as u...
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All for the Moral Majority!
1983
Easy Money
6/124
To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.
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Easy Money
1987
Man on Fire
5.7/73
Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swank...
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Man on Fire
1990
Betsy's Wedding
5.7/46
Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but B...
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Betsy's Wedding
1991
The Super
5.891/110
Louie Kritski is a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ghetto apartment that he is threatened with jail time. The judge giv...
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The Super
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
7.5/71
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between ma...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
1982
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
6/2
An adaptation of Barbara Gordon's nonfiction account of her addiction to Valium.
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I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
1961
Hey, Let's Twist!
3.7/3
Film about the creation of New York's famous Peppermint Lounge, where the Twist became a dance craze.
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Hey, Let's Twist!
2005
Raging Bull: Inside the Ring
9/2
The second part about the production of "Raging Bull."
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Raging Bull: Inside the Ring
1982
Dear Mr. Wonderful
4.8/5
Ruby Dennis is an middle-aged man with an unfulfilled ambition as a singer. As he begins to pursue that ambition, his family falls apart.
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Dear Mr. Wonderful
1998
Joe Pesci: Wise Guy
0/0
Music video for the actor Joe Pesci's deadpan gangster rap song Wise Guy about a foul-mouthed no-nonsense misogynistic mobster brag rapping about how...
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Joe Pesci: Wise Guy
1988
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
0/0
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide...
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
1985
Half Nelson
0/0
Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to Hollywood decides to try his luck out as an actor...
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Half Nelson
2023
Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
8.6/8
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Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
2014
Inside Rupert Pupkin
0/0
Thelma Schoonmaker on Martin Scorsese and 'The King of Comedy'
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Inside Rupert Pupkin
2020
Making 'The Irishman'
7/4
Join legendary director Martin Scorsese, and acting icons Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino going behind the scenes of their universally acclaim...
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Making 'The Irishman'
2016
I Go Back Home - Jimmy Scott
0/0
In I GO BACK HOME - JIMMY SCOTT, we meet the German music producer Ralf Kemper, who takes on the journey to produce a record with the almost forgotten...
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I Go Back Home - Jimmy Scott
2004
Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
0/0
A documentary that presents a brief yet detailed account on the making of Martin Scorsese's "GoodFellas" (1990), the successful film that redefined th...
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Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
1990
Catchfire
5.5/91
A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to ge...
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Catchfire
2007
Making Casino
0/0
A four-part making-of documentary about Scorcese’s 1995 Vegas crime epic Casino featured in physical media releases and split into sections on the Sto...
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Making Casino
2012
Bad 25
7.3/71
Spike Lee pays tribute to Michael Jackson's Bad on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the epochal album, offering behind-the-scenes footage of Jackson re...
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Bad 25
2019
The Irishman
7.599/6842
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank...
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The Irishman
1990
Catchfire
5.5/91
A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to ge...
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Catchfire
1977
Short Eyes
6.809/34
A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City’s infamous Tombs prison. When the other inmates in his cell block find ou...
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Short Eyes
1990
Martin Scorsese Directs
9/2
Providing behind the scenes footage of the director on set with clips from his own films, Martin Scorsese Directs depicts to riveting effect the way S...
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Martin Scorsese Directs
2012
Rising Above the Blues: The Story of Jimmy Scott
0/0
About Jimmy Scott, who has had profound influence on the world of jazz and pop, but was never recognized by a wider audience. The documentary takes us...
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Rising Above the Blues: The Story of Jimmy Scott
2019
The Irishman: In Conversation
7.5/107
Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino in conversation about The Irishman.
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The Irishman: In Conversation
2020
The Collaboration Of A Lifetime: Scorsese’s Epic The Irishman
7/3
Join legendary director Martin Scorsese, and acting icons Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino as we go behind the scenes of their universally acc...
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The Collaboration Of A Lifetime: Scorsese’s Epic The Irishman
2013
Behind the Gate
0/0
Behind The Gate is the untold story of the Sport of Kings, American Horse Racing. Starring Joe Pesci in his first film in seven years, Oscar De La Hoy...
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Behind the Gate
1994
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
7/3
Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! was a 1994 TV special that aired on ABC to celebrate Sesame Street's 25th anniversary....
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Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
2018
Google Assistant: Home Alone Again
0/0
The ad follows a similar plot to the Christmas comedy, with Culkin waking up in an empty house alone - except for his Google Assistant, of course.
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