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Joseph Vito DeSantis (June 15, 1909 - August 30, 1989) was an American radio, television, movie and theatrical actor and sculptor.
Joe De Santis was born Joseph Vito Marcello De Santis to Italian immigrant parents in New York City. De Santis played in numerous films; the high point of his career came in 1962 with A Cold Wind in August. He was also featured in I Want to Live! and The Brotherhood.
With the advent of television, Joe became known as a skilled character actor who could play convincing dialect characters, mugs, suave heavies and emotional leads. He was active in such early television series as Playhouse 90, Studio One, Sheriff of Cochise, and he appeared regularly on the programs of Red Buttons, Martha Raye and Sid Caesar shows. In addition to many single performances on other series like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Joe had a recurring presence in such shows as The Untouchables, 77 Sunset Strip, Perry Mason, Mission: Impossible, and in the westerns such as Sugarfoot, Daniel Boone, Gunsmoke, Sara, and Bonanza.
De Santis retired to Provo, Utah in 1978 to be close to family, and resided there until his death in 1989. He died in 1989 at the age of eighty of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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21 July 1957
A juvenile delinquent on parole receives support from a social worker and a girl from a slum.
19 November 1977
A policeman devises an unorthodox plan for bringing criminals to justice after his partner is brutally gunned down.
14 April 1968
A wild beach boy takes a job on a tuna fishing boat.
16 April 1971
A Mexican bandit is about to be executed in the United States, so his brother takes over a train and holds the passengers as hostages unless his brother is released.
01 November 1966
An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.
01 December 1959
Director George Sherman's 1959 circus drama stars Michael Callan as a cocky aerialist causing romantic problems under the Big Top.
26 July 1961
An older woman gets involved with her young neighbor.
03 March 1966
Holly Parker, the wife of a wealthy diplomat, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who has been romantically pursuing her.
01 June 1958
A rookie cop takes on criminals who have the local government in their pocket.
01 August 1959
After getting out of prison, a Latino criminal tries to go straight.
01 March 1973
Joseph Bologna stars as Bill Bonanno in this made-for-television adaptation of the controversial bestseller from Gay Talese, chronicling the rise of New York's infamous Bonanno organized crime family.
05 October 1975
A harrowing look at the 60s and early 70s through the eyes of Katherine Alman, a wealthy debutante who slowly, but inexorably spirals down into a fight for the causes that shook a nation, leading a path to the underground life.
01 December 1968
The son of a powerful Mafia don comes home from his army service in Vietnam and wants to lead his own life, but family tradition, intrigues and powerplays involving his older brother dictate otherwise, and he finds himself being slowly drawn back into that world.
23 May 1952
New York City newspaper The Day is in trouble. Even though editor Ed Hutcheson has worked hard running the paper, its circulation has been steadily declining.
25 March 1959
In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio.
11 August 1949
A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused.
01 August 1958
Passing through a border town, a man is caught up in a Mexican's murder of a member of the town's most powerful family.
02 September 1966
Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff.
17 May 1966
A boy longs to be a shepherd in New Mexico but is repeatedly told he is too young.
22 February 1974
This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life in a wheelchair following his crippling automobile accident in 1959.
03 October 1956
When the owner of a stagecoach station is killed, a gunman takes his place.
27 November 1951
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals.
30 April 1956
A buffalo hunter has a falling-out with his partner, who kills for fun.
02 August 1957
Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920s stage star Jeanne Eagels.
18 November 1958
Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.
22 November 1961
The 1961 film biography of the nightclub dancer-turned-movie star George Raft.
24 November 1966
Former CIA man, Bill Fenner, now a downbeat, loner journalist, is sent to Venice to investigate the shock suicide bombing by an American diplomat at a peace conference.
22 June 1973
A gangster's former mistress hooks up with a troupe of circus midgets who, as a sideline, rob banks and casinos.
24 June 1957
A woman marries a man for his wealth, then concocts a plan to kill him, take his money, and run off with her lover.
08 November 1987
Depicts the factual accounts of Vincenzo Di Francesca and Parley P. Pratt and how they came to appreciate the contents of the Book of Mormon.
25 December 1956
A father-in-law's visit makes life even more complicated for a struggling writer and his pregnant wife.
31 August 1966
Stephen Rojack is a decorated war vet who has now found success as an outspoken television personality.
20 June 1957
American soldiers must use stealth to take over a German command post in Normandy.
