Anthony Peter "Tony" Musante, Jr. (June 30, 1936 - November 26, 2013) was an American actor, probably best known for the TV series Toma.

Life and career

Musante was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut into an Italian-American family, the son of Natalie Anne (née Salerno), a school teacher, and Anthony Peter Musante, an accountant. He attended Oberlin College and Northwestern University.

Musante acted in numerous feature films, in the United States and elsewhere, including Italy. Among his body of work are the television series Toma (predecessor to Baretta) and the soap opera As the World Turns, and the 1975 Broadway play, P. S. Your Cat Is Dead!, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work in a 1975 episode of Medical Center, A Quality of Mercy. Musante also played Nino Schibetta, a feared Mafia boss and the Italian gang leader inside of Emerald City during the first season of the HBO critically acclaimed television series Oz.

He died of complications following surgery on November 26, 2013, aged 77, in Manhattan, New York.

Filmography

• The DuPont Show of the Week (1961)
• Ride with Terror (1963)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1964)
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964)
• Once a Thief (1965)
• The Trials of O'Brien (1965-1966)
• The Fugitive (1966)
• The Incident (1967)
• The Detective (1968)
• The Mercenary (1968)
• Metti una sera a cena (1969)
• The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
• The Anonymous Venetian (1970)
• The Last Run (1971)
• Grissom Gang (1971)
• Il caso Pisciotta (1972)
• Marcus Welby, M.D. (1973)
• Toma (1973-1974)
• Police Story (1974-1976)
• The Rockford Files (1975)
• Medical Story (1975-1976)
• Origins of the Mafia (1976)
• Nowhere to Hide (1977)
• Goodbye and Amen (1977)
• Eutanasia di un amore (1978)
• The Thirteenth Day: The Story of Esther (TV movie) (1979)
• American Playhouse (1982)
• The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
• The Trap (1985)
• MacGruder and Loud (1985)
• The Repenter (1985)
• Oz (1997)
• Exiled: A Law & Order Movie (1998)
• The Yards (1999)
• The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)
• As the World Turns (2000-2003)
• La vita come viene (2003)
• We Own the Night (2007)

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