Leonardo Cimino (November 4, 1917 – March 3, 2012) was an American film, television and stage actor who in 1937 appeared in the original stage production of Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock. Cimino's most well known roles are in the 1983 science fiction miniseries, V as Abraham Bernstein and the 1987 feature film The Monster Squad as the "Scary German guy".
Life and career
Born in Manhattan, Cimino was the son of Andrea and Leonilda Cimino. His father was a tailor.
Cimino was initially interested in pursuing a career as a violinist, and studied the instrument at the Juilliard School when he was a teenager. While studying the violin he became interested in acting and dancing, and began studying those as well. It was not until a decade later, however, that Cimino would become dedicated full-time to an acting career. During the late 1930s and early 1940s he studied acting, directing and modern dance at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.
Filmography
Film
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! Role
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|1961||Mad Dog Coll||Wickles - Bar Owner||
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|1961||The Young Savages||Mr. Rugiello||Uncredited
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|1964||Quick, Let's Get Married||Dr. Paoli||
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|1969||Stiletto||Allie Fargo||Uncredited
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|1970||Cotton Comes to Harlem||Tom||
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|1972||Come Back, Charleston Blue||Frank Mago||
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|1973||Jeremy||Cello Teacher||
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|1975||The Man in the Glass Booth||Dr. Alvarez||
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|1980||Hide in Plain Sight||Don Angelo Venucci||
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|1980||Stardust Memories||Sandy's Analyst||
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|1982||Amityville II: The Possession||Chancellor||
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|1982||Monsignor||The Pope||
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|1984||Dune||The Baron's Doctor||
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|1987||The Monster Squad||Scary German Guy||
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|1987||Moonstruck||Felix||
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|1988||The Seventh Sign||Head Cardinal||
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|1989||Penn & Teller Get Killed||Ernesto||
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|1990||Q&A||Nick Petrone||
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|1990||The Freshman||Lorenzo||
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|1991||Hudson Hawk||Cardinal||
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|1993||Claude||Daddy V.J.||
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|1993||Household Saints||Mario, a Storyteller||
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|1995||Waterworld||Elder||
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|1999||Cradle Will Rock||VTA - Man in Line||
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|2001||18 Shades of Dust||Connie Broglio||
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|2001|| Hannibal ||Sammie|| (scenes deleted, available on home video releases)
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|2001||Made||Leo||
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|2007||Before the Devil Knows You're Dead||William||(final film role)
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Television
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! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
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|1949||The Big Story||Tyler||1 episode
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|1958||Armstrong Circle Theatre|| ||1 episode
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|1958||Naked City||Shellshock||1 episode
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|1959||The Phil Silvers Show||Bandit #3||1 episode
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|1959||The DuPont Show of the Month|| ||1 episode
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|1959||Brenner||Mr. Jackson||1 episode
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|1960||Armstrong Circle Theatre||Joe March||1 episode
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|1960||The Witness|| ||1 episode
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|1960||The DuPont Show of the Month|| ||1 episode
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|1960||Naked City||Johnny||1 episode
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|1961||Give Us Barabbas!||Caleb||TV movie
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|1961||The Power and the Glory|| ||TV movie
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|1961||Way Out||Nighttime Murderer||1 episode
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|1961||Route 66||Vendor||1 episode
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|1961||Naked City||Miklos Konya||1 episode
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|1961||Naked City||Julio Varraco||1 episode
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|1962||Naked City||Alberto Russo||1 episode
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|1963||Naked City||Sid Kitka||1 episode
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|1963||The Defenders||Ralph Kinderman||1 episode
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|1965||For the People||LeBlanc||1 episode
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|1966||ABC Stage 67||Dino||1 episode
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|1973||The Doctors||Tennessee Eddie Hawkins
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|1973||Honor Thy Father||Sam DeCavalcante||TV movie
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|1974||Kojak||Ruby Kabelsky||2 episodes
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|1976||Kojak||Cordick||1 episode
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|1976||Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers||Ben Rosselli||mini-series, 1 of 4 episodes
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|1980||A Time for Miracles||Italian Priest||TV movie
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|1980||Rappaccini's Daughter||Rappaccini||TV movie
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|1981||Ryan's Hope||Alexei Vartova||10 episodes
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|1983||V (1983 miniseries)||Abraham Bernstein||mini-series, 2 of 2 episodes
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|1983||Cocaine and Blue Eyes||Orestes Anatole||TV movie
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|1983||Will There Really Be a Morning?||Adolph Zukor||TV movie
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|1984||One Life to Live||Antonescu||1 episode
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|1986||The Equalizer||Thomas Marley Sr|| Episode: "Counterfire"
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|1989||The Equalizer||Doctor Molinari||
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|1989||The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd||Orambello Johnson||1 episode
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|1991||Dead and Alive: The Race for Gus Farace|| ||TV movie
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|1994||M.A.N.T.I.S.||Benny Cruikshank||1 episode
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|1996||Law & Order||Costello||1 episode
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|1997||The Hunger||Nero||1 episode
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|1998||Witness to the Mob||Neil Dellacroce||TV movie
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|2000||Law & Order||Tommy Valducci||1 episode
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