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Vincent Pastore
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Vincent Pastore

Born 1946 · Bronx, New York, USA · Active 1984–2024

Vincent Pastore, born in 1946, is an Italian-American actor known for his memorable portrayals of mobsters. He brings a unique presence to the horror genre in Return to Sleepaway Camp (2008), where his character adds a layer of dark humor to the film's campy narrative. Pastore's experience in crime dramas, particularly as Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero on The Sopranos, informs his performance, making him a fitting addition to the cult cinema landscape. His role in this sequel connects the gritty world of mob life with the over-the-top thrills of exploitation horror.

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Return to Sleepaway Camp

Return to Sleepaway Camp

2008 ★ 5.8
as Frank

In 2003, Alan (Michael Gibney) is a boy who is at a summer camp at Camp Manabe. The movie shows that Alan is a socially awkward and immature teen with a slovenly appearance. He tries to act tough against small kids like Pee-Pee, but does this in anger as he is bullied by other kids. Among his abusers are his stepbrother Michael (Michael Werner) and his friends Vinny (Christian Hess) and T.C. (Christopher Shand), and the girls at the camp, mainly a girl named Bella (Shahidah McIntosh). Several boys are lighting farts one night. Alan tries, and after failing, he threatens the other boys, but is soon stopped by camp counselor, Randy (Brye Cooper). In the dining hall, Alan gets into a violent confrontation with Randy after he complains about the food. Ronnie (Paul DeAngelo), the head counselor (from the original) who is nice to everyone including Alan, allows Alan to get something else to eat, but Alan gets in trouble with cook Mickey (Lenny Venito), who attacks Alan for taking an ice cream sandwich from the freezer. Alan throws a butcher knife at Mickey and the camp owner, Frank (Vincent Pastore), argues with Alan. Alan runs away, with Michael chasing him. In the kitchen, Mickey is killed after being held above and dumped into the deep fryer. His body is dumped in the trash compactor. During a social, Alan is fooled by campers Terry (Adam Wylie), nicknamed "Weed", Spaz, and Stan (Chas Brewer) into smoking dried cow manure, which makes him cough and fall on Stan's crotch, earning him the nickname "Blowjob." After the social, Weed is tied to his chair and gasoline is squirted down his throat. The killer tapes his mouth shut with a “Drugs are for dummies” sticker and pokes a hole through it with a lit cigarette, causing his insides to explode. Ronnie suspects the murders that happened twenty years ago are happening again, but Frank states the murders were accidental. A week later, Alan manages to convince two girls, Karen (Erin Broderick) and Marie (Samantha Hahn), to go to his "secret hideout", which is just a place in the woods where he eats junk food and enjoys watching the frogs. Michael makes Alan look like he skinned the frogs, and Karen and Marie run away. Alan catches up to Karen to try to explain what happened, but T.C. gives Alan a wedgie, and he falls in the water. Later that night Michael, T.C. and Marie force Karen to lure Alan to the back of the stage, where they take his clothes off, tie him up, blindfold him and embarrass him at the social. Ronnie suspects that counselor Petey (Kate Simses) is the killer for always being nearby when Alan is in trouble. Petey always makes a point to stick up for Alan and angrily lashes out at Alan's tormenters. After returning to his cabin, Frank is knocked unconscious with a hammer and wakes up with his head inserted in a birdcage. The killer opens the birdcage and places two rats inside the cage. The rats eat through his head and down into his intestines. Randy and his girlfriend Linda (Jackie Tohn) go to the pump house to have sex. Whilst Randy urinates, the killer ties him to a tree, using fishing line to wrap around his penis. Upon returning, Linda panics after hearing Randy placate the killer and drives off in the jeep, but the fishing line is tied to the jeep and tears off Randy's penis. Linda crashes after driving through a wrapped barbed wire line, which wraps around her face. After Spaz visits T.C., a wooden spear comes through a hole in the floor while T.C. is looking into it and gouges his eye out, whereas he forces it through his head by walking into a wall. Ronnie and another camper, Jenny (Jaime Radow), find Frank dead and begin rounding up everyone. Bella goes to her cabin, where she finds that the bunk above her has been replaced with a board with spikes. The killer jumps down from the rafters and lands on the top bunk, causing the spikes to impale and kill Bella. T.C. and Bella are found dead and Ricky Thomas (Jonathan Tiersten), Angela's cousin, is called by Sheriff Jerry. Karen runs through the camp. She finds Randy and Linda dying before bumping into the killer and fainting. Karen wakes up with a rope hanging from a basketball hoop tied around her neck. The killer flips a switch to raise the net, causing Karen to be lifted off the ground. Michael arrives, prompting the killer to run off, and lowers the net. After Karen tells him she thinks Alan is the killer, Michael grabs a croquet mallet and runs to Alan's secret hideout, where he finds Alan, and starts beating Alan with the mallet. However, the real killer appears behind Michael as the screen fades to black. Ronnie, Ricky and Jenny find a badly wounded Alan. Sheriff Jerry walks up, explaining through his mechanical voice box that the victims never learned, felt the need to be so mean all the time, thought they could do anything to their victims and get away with it, and eventually got what they deserved. The killer is revealed to be Sheriff Jerry, who in turn reveals himself to be Angela Baker, the murderer from the first movie, which causes Ronnie to say "I knew it was you!" Jenny finds something on the ground and runs away screaming. Ronnie and Ricky investigate and find Michael skinned alive on the ground. The film ends with Angela laughing maniacally before suddenly stopping and staring evilly into the camera. In a post-credits scene, a flashback set three weeks prior to film shows how Angela escaped from the psychiatric clinic from the fourth film. She causes a brake fluid leak in a car and flags down Sheriff Pete (Carlo Vogel), the real sheriff. She murders him by dropping the car on his head and steals his clothes to become the new sheriff. It's summer camp as usual at Camp Manabe where the kids torment each other for fun while the underpaid camp staff provides as little supervision as possible. Greedy camp owner Frank and junior partner Ronnie do their best to keep everyone in line, but something sinister is about to put a slash in the roster.

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Filmography

163 credits
2020s 16 credits
2024
Movie ★ 6.8
2024
A Brooklyn Love Story as Benny 'The Snail' Tucci
Movie
2024
Don Q as Italian American Actor
Movie ★ 5.6
2024
Movie ★ 2.0
2023
Spinning Gold as Big Joey
Movie ★ 5.3
2023
The Zombie Wedding as Mayor Fanucci
Movie ★ 2.0
2023
The Curse as Vincent Pastore
TV ★ 6.4
2022
Movie
2021
Made in Chinatown as Amadore Condimento
Movie ★ 5.8
2021
Movie ★ 5.1
2021
TV ★ 7.5
2020
Movie
2020
Movie ★ 1.0
2020
TV ★ 6.7
2020
TV ★ 10.0
2010s 38 credits
2019
Movie ★ 6.2
2019
Clinton Road as Club Owner
Movie ★ 2.9
2019
Vault as Frank
Movie ★ 5.6
2019
Bad Art as Papi
Movie
2019
TV ★ 8.2
2018
Black Wake as Dr. Jones
Movie ★ 2.3
2018
Papa as Frankie Vincent
Movie ★ 4.3
2018
Bully as Frankie
Movie ★ 5.9
2018
Sarah Q as Mr. Tommy
Movie ★ 6.0
2018
Who's Jenna...? as Thomas Roma
Movie ★ 3.2
2018
Honor Amongst Men as FBI Agent surveillance
Movie
2017
Pasquale's Magic Veal as Chef Pasquale
Movie
2017
Movie ★ 5.5
2017
The Eyes as Harry
Movie ★ 5.2
2017
The Uncle Gerry Show as Donnie Zizzo
Movie ★ 9.0
2017
Calico Skies as Vincenzo
Movie ★ 5.5
2017
Movie ★ 4.8
2017
Movie
2016
Oiled Up as Detective James
Movie ★ 2.0
2015
Red Herring as Saffiote
Movie ★ 2.8
2015
Staten Island Summer as Leo Manicucci
Movie ★ 5.6
2014
179th Street as Sal Mancini
Movie ★ 5.0
2014
Surviving Family as Mayor Avenoso
Movie ★ 4.4
2013
The Family as Fat Willy
Movie ★ 6.4
2013
Movie ★ 4.0
2013
Movie ★ 5.9
2013
Torture Chamber as Dr. Fiore
Movie ★ 3.2
2013
Movie
2013
Movie ★ 7.4
2012
Pizza with Bullets as Don Vito Perspirino
Movie ★ 6.0
2011
Movie ★ 7.0
2011
Spy as Dante LeClair
Movie ★ 5.4
2010
Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay! as Carmine Ferraro
Movie ★ 5.1
2010
Pair of Kings as Yamakoshi (voice)
TV ★ 7.8
2010
Pair of Kings as Yamaguchi (voice)
TV ★ 7.8
2010
Blue Bloods as Richie Tomlin
TV ★ 7.8
2010
Hawaii Five-0 as Vito Russo
TV ★ 7.7
2000s 53 credits
2009
Street Boss as Frank 'The Shank'
Movie
2009
Split Ends as Tiny Provenzano
Movie ★ 6.0
2009
Shark Tank as Self
TV ★ 6.8
2008
Movie ★ 5.8
2008
The Devil's Dominoes as Big John Calabrese
Movie ★ 3.8
2008
Movie ★ 5.0
2008
Movie ★ 3.0
2008
Dough Boys as Mr. Conti
Movie ★ 3.0
2008
P.J. as Burt
Movie ★ 3.5
2008
Movie ★ 5.5
2007
7-10 Split as Tony P.
Movie ★ 3.9
2007
Movie
2006
The Last Request as Father Patton
Movie ★ 2.1
2006
Bachelor Party Vegas as Carmine/ Mr. Kidd
Movie ★ 4.9
2006
Movie ★ 1.0
2006
TV ★ 5.1
2005
Revolver as Zach
Movie ★ 6.4
2005
Movie ★ 6.4
2005
Remedy as Casper Black
Movie ★ 5.2
2005
Celebrity Fit Club as Self - Contestant
TV ★ 9.0
2005
TV ★ 8.1
2004
Shark Tale as Luca (voice)
Movie ★ 6.0
2004
The Cookout as Poo Salesman
Movie ★ 4.7
2004
TV ★ 6.4
2004
TV ★ 5.9
2004
TV ★ 6.5
2004
The Celebrity Apprentice as Self - Contestant
TV ★ 5.1
2003
Movie ★ 4.6
2003
Movie ★ 5.3
2003
Movie ★ 5.5
2003
Las Vegas as Jimmy 'The Chin' Aversano
TV ★ 7.0
2003
TV ★ 6.1
2003
Queens Supreme as Norm Delgado
TV ★ 6.1
2002
Movie ★ 5.4
2002
Deuces Wild as Father Aldo
Movie ★ 5.5
2002
Movie ★ 4.0
2002
TV ★ 6.9
2002
TV ★ 7.5
2001
Made as Jimmy
Movie ★ 5.8
2001
Movie ★ 4.4
2001
Movie ★ 6.7
2001
Grounded for Life as Uncle Sal
TV ★ 6.8
2001
TV ★ 9.0
2000
Movie ★ 5.0
2000
Blue Moon as Joey
Movie ★ 7.5
2000
Movie ★ 6.3
2000
TV ★ 6.6
2000
Ed as Ralph Pazzuti III
TV ★ 7.7
2000
Aqua Teen Hunger Force as Terry (voice) (uncredited)
TV ★ 7.5
1990s 52 credits
1999
Movie ★ 6.5
1999
Movie ★ 5.7
1999
The Hurricane as Alfred Bello
Movie ★ 7.4
1999
Movie ★ 4.5
1999
18 Shades of Dust as Matty "The Horse" Brancato
Movie ★ 5.3
1999
Movie ★ 6.0
1999
The Sopranos as Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero
TV ★ 8.7
1998
Movie ★ 5.5
1998
Witness to the Mob as Mikey De Batt
Movie ★ 7.1
1998
Movie ★ 5.3
1998
Hollywood Squares as Self - Panelist
TV ★ 7.6
1997
Movie ★ 5.9
1997
The Deli as Lou
Movie ★ 4.8
1997
Movie ★ 6.3
1997
The Practice as Lenny Pescatore
TV ★ 7.7
1997
The Last Don as Danny Fuberta
TV ★ 7.0
1996
Walking and Talking as Laura's Devil-Seeing Patient
Movie ★ 6.1
1996
No Exit as Tony Landano
Movie ★ 6.0
1996
Gotti as Angelo Ruggiero
Movie ★ 6.5
1996
Joe's Apartment as Apartment Broker #2
Movie ★ 5.8
1996
Sunset Park as Charlie the Super
Movie ★ 6.5
1996
Tales of Erotica as Teresa's Father (segment 'The Dutch Master')
Movie ★ 3.9
1995
The Basketball Diaries as Construction Worker
Movie ★ 7.4
1995
Money Train as Gambler
Movie ★ 5.9
1995
The Jerky Boys as Tony Scarboni
Movie ★ 4.4
1995
Siao Yu as Keeper
Movie ★ 7.3
1994
Who Do I Gotta Kill? as Aldo "Birdman" Badamo
Movie ★ 4.3
1994
It Could Happen to You as Bowling Team Member
Movie ★ 6.7
1994
Hand Gun as Harry
Movie ★ 4.9
1994
Sugar Hill as Sal’s Bodyguard (uncredited)
Movie ★ 5.6
1994
Movie ★ 7.0
1993
Carlito's Way as Copa Wiseguy
Movie ★ 7.8
1993
Taking the Heat as Tommy's Man on Courthouse Steps (uncredited)
Movie ★ 5.0
1993
Who's the Man? as Tony 'Clams' Como
Movie ★ 5.3
1993
The Dutch Master as Teresa's Father
Movie ★ 4.2
1993
Manhattan Murder Mystery as Man in Restaurant (uncredited)
Movie ★ 7.3
1993
TV ★ 7.7
1992
The Bet as Nino
Movie ★ 10.0
1992
Movie ★ 5.7
1991
New Jack City as Mobster (uncredited)
Movie ★ 6.7
1990
Movie ★ 4.8
1990
Q & A as Man Sitting in Bar (uncredited)
Movie ★ 5.9
1990
GoodFellas as Man with Coatrack
Movie ★ 8.5
1990
Street Hunter as Romano Guard Outside Coffin Factory
Movie ★ 5.6
1990
Awakenings as Ward #5 Patient #6
Movie ★ 7.8
1990
Movie ★ 5.2
1990
State of Grace as Borelli’s Man (uncredited)
Movie ★ 6.9
1990
Law & Order as John Joseph Furini
TV ★ 7.3
1990
Law & Order as Dominick
TV ★ 7.3
1990
TV ★ 7.3
1990
Law & Order as Jimmy Pogosian
TV ★ 7.3
1980s 3 credits
1989
True Love as Angelo
Movie ★ 5.9
1988
Black Roses as Tony's Dad
Movie ★ 5.1
1984
TV ★ 7.8
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