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Frank Vincent (born Frank Vincent Gattuso on 4 August, 1939) is an Italian-American actor.

He was born in North Adams, Massachusetts, but was raised in Jersey City, New Jersey. His father was also called Frank. His mother was Mary (nee Ricci). Frank has two brothers: Nick and Jimmy. Frank's father was one of six children, all born in the United States to Sicilian immigrants: Niccolo Gattuso and Francesca di Peri.

As an accomplished player of the drums, trumpet and piano, Frank Vincent originally intended on a career in music but in 1975, aged thirty-six, he starred in a low-budget gangster movie called The Death Collector where he was spotted by Martin Scorsese. Scorsese was impressed and hired Vincent to star in Raging Bull
. Joe Pesci co-starred with Vincent in The Death Collector and the two were re-united in several other movies; another familiar co-star of Vincent is Robert De Niro.

Vincent is often typecast as a gangster, the most recent example being The Sopranos
where he plays Phil Leotardo. In the 1990 movie, Goodfellas
, Vincent played the doomed Billy Batts, who suffers a grisly end at the hands of Tommy DeVito (memorably played by Joe Pesci) after foolishly taunting DeVito by telling him to "go get your fucking shinebox!". Another gangster role was in Scorsese's 1995 film Casino. In the television movie, Gotti
, Vincent played Robert DeBinardo, an associate of Mafia boss John Gotti, whose life the film chronicled. Vincent had leading role in the heist movie This Thing of Ours in 2003. In 1999 he won the Italian American Entertainer of the Year Award.

In 2001, Frank Vincent lent his voice to a Mafia don in the controversial computer and video game Grand Theft Auto III and later reprised that role in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004) and now in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (2005).

One of his more light-hearted roles came recently when he was in a British television commercial for Peugeot cars. In early 2005, Frank Vincent appeared on Irish television in a series of television commercials for Irish building society Permanent TSB. As of August 2005, his image can still be seen on the homepage of the Permanent TSB . In 2006, he released his first book: A Guy's Guide to Being a Man's Man.

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Frank Vincent has the dubious cinematic distinction of getting severely beaten by Joe Pesci in two Martin Scorsese films. In Raging Bull he plays unfortunate mobster Salvy who gets beaten unconscious by Joey LaMotta (Pesci) after he catches him flirting with his brother's wife. In Goodfellas, he gets beaten, stabbed, and shot to death by Pesci after his character, Billy Batts, taunts Pesci's character, Tommy De Vito in a bar. Vincent finally got his revenge five years later in Casino after he beats Pesci's character, Nicky Santoro, and his brother with a baseball bat in a cornfield and buries them both alive. Frank Vincent and his wife Kathy have three children and two grandchildren.

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