Frank Vincent Biography

New Jersey-born character actor Frank Vincent is best known for playing threatening thugs and gangsters, but he actually started out working with Joe Pesci as a comedy duo during the early '70s. Before that, Pesci and Vincent had worked together in a honky tonk band, the Aristocrats, in which Pesci sang lead and Vincent played the drums. The duo broke up in 1975, but not before landing supporting roles as gangsters in the low-budget crime drama Death Collector. Afterward, Vincent disappeared from the entertainment industry until 1978, when he again encountered Pesci, who helped him land the part of Salvi, the gangster whom Pesci badly beats in Martin Scorsese's epic biography Raging Bull (1980). The former duo subsequently teamed in Dear Mr. Wonderful (1982), Scorsese's GoodFellas (1990), where Pesci gave Vincent a fatal beating, and in Casino, where the worm turned and Vincent got to kill Pesci. Vincent found fairly steady employment playing small supporting roles in films of widely varying quality through the early '90s. After appearing in Alan Rudolph's Mortal Thoughts and Spike Lee's Jungle Fever (1991), Vincent began getting larger screen roles. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

• 1. Billy Batts: Now go home and get your fuckin' shine box.
  2. Tommy DeVito: Mother fuckin' mutt! You, you fucking piece of shit!
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• 1. Billy Batts: Go home and get your shinebox!
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• 1. Billy Batts: Why don't you go get your shine box?
  2. Tommy DeVito: [everyone laughs] Ya motherfucker!
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• 1. Billy Batts: Now Go Home and Get Your Fucking Shinebox!
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