
Frank Pesce
Frank Pesce (December 8, 1946 – February 6, 2022) was an American film and television actor. Born in New York City, Pesce was the son of two working-class Italian parents.
Pesce started his film career as an extra in The Godfather Part II, and got his first credited role in 1976, in an episode of the television series Police Story. He guest-starred a large number of well-known TV-series, including Knight Rider, Kojak and Matlock, and was a busy character actor in films, notably appearing in Rocky, Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop and Flashdance. He wrote the script of the film 29th Street, based on his own autobiographical experiences. He made his last appearance in 2015, in Creed.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.978 |
Birthday | 1946-12-08 |
Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Frankie Pesce, Franck Pesce, Frank J. Pesce, |

1993

South Beach
2.5/5
Former NFL star Mack Derringer now works as a private detective. Someone is out to get Derringer and his ex-wife. Can Derringer put the pieces of t...
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1988

Midnight Run
7.2/1109
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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1986

Hollywood Harry
2.3/3
Tongue-in-cheek account of a private eye hired to find a young porn actress.
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Hollywood Harry

2014

Reach Me
5.3/106
Each member of a group of people has a connection to a self-help book authored by a reclusive former football coach.
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Reach Me

1982

Vigilante
6.263/97
New York City factory worker Eddie Marino is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murd...
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Vigilante

2009

Citizen Jane
5.1/11
Jane Alexander's idyllic life in San Francisco is shattered when her beloved, elderly aunt is brutally murdered. But when her fiancé, Tom O'Donnell, b...
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1979

Tilt
5/10
Tilt is the story of a precocious young girl who is a pinball wizard. Because she does not get on with her parents, Tilt is contemplating running away...
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1979

Killer Fish
4.595/63
Jewel thieves attempt to recover treasure from piranha infested waters. Mistrust and betrayals happen amongst the gang in the quest for gold.
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1991

29th Street
7.1/36
After winning $6.2 million in the 1976 New York State Lottery, he is arrested for throwing rocks at a church. He then tells his story at the police st...
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1994

Trapped in Paradise
5.601/245
Residents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers' plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve.
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1992

Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence
5.2/150
When Kate Sullivan storms a hostage situation, the whole incident is captured on tape by an unscrupulous media crew who edit the footage to show her k...
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1988

Maniac Cop
6.1/478
Innocent people are brutally killed on the streets of New York by a uniformed police officer. A young cop, Jack Forrest, finds himself marked as the c...
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2001

The Joe Spinell Story
5.7/7
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1994

Ice
4.5/10
A married couple of cat burglars scheme to rob a set of stolen diamonds from the local mafia only to be hampered by persistent police detectives, anot...
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2005

Jane Doe: Til Death Do Us Part
5.9/10
When a ruthless arms Kingpin stages an ingenious escape from prison, Jane Doe and Frank Darnell, NSA head, realize he's bent on a vengeance killin. Wh...
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1989

Hit List
6.1/16
A family man and a mob witness hunt for a hit-man who has mistakenly kidnapped the family man's son.
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1978

Paradise Alley
5.81/134
Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's p...
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1990

Bar Girls
0/0
Failed series pilot about a pair of mismatched law partners who struggle to stay ahead of their creditors.
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1980

Defiance
6.3/23
Tommy takes up temporary housing in a New York neighborhood plagued by a violent gang called the Souls. Tommy is waiting for his next assignment as a...
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Defiance

1997

Night Vision
5.7/14
A psycho serial killer who videotapes each of his bloody conquests is on the loose, and it's up to alcoholic motorcycle cop Dak and his new tough-as-n...
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1983

Eureka
5.246/71
An Alaskan gold prospector lives in luxury with his family on an island which gangsters want.
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Eureka

1993

Blindsided
3/3
An ex-cop is temporarily blinded when he steals cash from a money laundering operations. While recuperating in Mexico, the thief falls in love with a...
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1980

Maniac
6.445/445
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and local girl American models and takes their scalps as trophies.
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1983

Emergency Room
0/0
An ER doctor divides her time between saving lives, playing hospital politics, and juggling a love affair with a fellow doctor.
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Emergency Room

1996

Uncle Sam
4.9/54
It's Fourth of July Weekend, and the recently discovered corpse of Sgt. Sam Harper rises from the dead to punish the unpatriotic.
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Uncle Sam

2014

The Expendables 3
6.2/5027
Barney, Christmas and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks...
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1983

The Big Score
5/3
A narcotics detective, played by Fred Williamson, lets nothing stand in the way of his bringing down a major drug dealer. After a bust gone awry, he's...
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2013

The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti
6/1
Documentary on the life and films of Antonio Margheriti.
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1982

Young Doctors in Love
5.2/59
An 'Airplane!'-style spoof of hospital soap operas—a brilliant young trainee can't stand the sight of blood; a doctor romances the head nurse in order...
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1980

Marilyn: The Untold Story
8.2/2
The story of the life and times of the legendary Hollywood blonde bombshell, Marilyn Monroe, from her meteoric rise to stardom to her marriages and un...
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Marilyn: The Untold Story

1988

Cameron's Closet
4.8/28
A father who experiments with his son's psychokinetic powers is unaware that these experiments have released a demon from hell which lives in his son'...
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Cameron's Closet

1976

Rocky
7.8/7968
An uneducated collector for a Philadelphia loan shark is given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fight against the world heavyweight boxing champion...
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1980

American Gigolo
6.148/667
Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife...
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American Gigolo

1999

Black and White
4.7/66
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 schoo...
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1994

Another Midnight Run
6.6/5
Jack Walsh tries to track down two of the top con-artists around. But they know every trick in the book and Jack has trouble bringing them back to LA...
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2011

Tower Heist
6.104/2974
A luxury condo manager leads a staff of workers to seek payback on the Wall Street swindler who defrauded them. With only days until the billionaire g...
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Tower Heist

1993

Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story
5.7/13
Joey Buttafuoco's story, of how a sexy, possessive young girl destroyed his life by telling her friends the two are lovers, and then shooting his wife...
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1989

Relentless
5.5/30
Two Los Angeles police detectives hunt for a serial killer who randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory.
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Relentless

1990

Maniac Cop 2
5.9/234
After being framed by corrupt superiors and brutally assaulted in prison, Officer Matt Cordell teams up with a vicious serial killer to track down tho...
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1977

Sorcerer
7.427/558
Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting...
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Sorcerer

1989

The Cover Girl and the Cop
3/1
Julia Duffy is the cover girl and Dinah Manoff the cop in this made-for-TV contrivance.
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2015

Creed
7.408/7499
The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apoll...
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2002

On the Edge
2.7/3
Dakota Smith is an ex-cop and former private eye with a proclivity for community service. When a young basketball player entangles himself with drug d...
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1994

Seduce Me: Pamela Principle 2
5/5
Charles is bored with being a wealthy, successful architect. He takes a temporary job photographing undressed women and falls for Pamela. His wife, El...
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1992

The Pamela Principle
4.6/8
Pamela is a young actress who has moved into New York City from the midwest. She meets up with Carl who is middle-aged tailor of women's clothings and...
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2018

King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
6.6/17
A feature-length documentary focusing on the acclaimed work and eclectic career of maverick filmmaker Larry Cohen, writer-director of "Black Caesar,"...
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1983

Flashdance
6.5/1482
Alex Owens, a young woman juggling between two odd jobs, aspires to become a successful ballet dancer. Nick, who is her boss and lover, supports and e...
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1996

Original Gangstas
5.7/31
A violent street gang, the Rebels, rule the streets of Gary, Indiana. The Rebels shoot Marvin Bookman, a store-keeper, for giving the police informati...
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1993

Mirror Images II
4.5/9
Shannon Whirry stars as Carrie and Terrie, a pair of twins who were separated in youth when their father murdered their mother and was in turn killed...
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1991

Steel and Lace
5/24
After her attackers go free, Gaily Morton, the victim of a vicious assault, commits suicide. Her vengeful brother, brilliant robotics engineer and sci...
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Steel and Lace

1992

In the Shadow of a Killer
0/0
Courtroom drama involving the mafia inspired by true events.
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In the Shadow of a Killer

1997

Donnie Brasco
7.537/4483
An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
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1989

Lock Up
6.8/1214
Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Dru...
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Lock Up

2013

Grudge Match
6.1/1292
A pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout -- 30 years after their last match.
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1986

The Messenger
5.2/6
When his girlfriend dies of a drug overdose, a former Green Beret decides to take vengeance on the drug gangs responsible for her death.
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The Messenger

2001

Double Take
5.596/104
A man on the run takes another man's passport, only to find himself stuck with the identity of a street hustler.
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Double Take

2008

Final Approach
5.2/19
FBI hostage rescue team leader Jack Bender has been sacked for not being a team player, and months later he finds himself in the ultimate hostage nigh...
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Final Approach

2004

The Whole Ten Yards
5.7/960
Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski now spends his days compulsively cleaning his house and perfecting his culinary skills with his wife, Jill, a purported assa...
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The Whole Ten Yards

1996

The Cottonwood
0/0
Four friends get three million dollars and decide to construct a screenplay of 52 stolen scenes from the greatest movies ever made.
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The Cottonwood

1984

Beverly Hills Cop
7.2/4217
Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered,...
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Beverly Hills Cop

1987

Beverly Hills Cop II
6.512/2581
Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sg...
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Beverly Hills Cop II

1986

Top Gun
7.056/8756
For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pi...
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