A Man’s Man with Frank Vincent

Frank Vincent is an acclaimed actor, musician, comedian, author and producer. He was born in North Adams, Massachusetts of first generation Italian-Americans and raised in the Greenville section of Jersey City, New Jersey. Frank’s father, an amateur actor, introduced him to show business at an early age. Frank acted in school plays and studied music at St. Paul’s grammar school. He played piano, trumpet and drums, but his love for the drums soon took center stage. Frank spent his adolescence playing and traveling with various national championship drum and bugle corps. This passion evolved into playing in small combos at various nightclubs. He then met record producer Bill Ramal who became his musical mentor. In time, he became a successful recording drummer for such prominent names as Don Costa, Paul Anka, Del Shannon, Trini Lopez and the Belmonts. He found himself playing 5-6 nights a week and recording 3-4 days a week. His insatiable desire for performing soon came to the forefront and his drum playing became secondary. At this pace, he developed a stage personality and learned the meaning of comedic timing and discipline, which would soon lend itself to his acting career. In 1975, Frank made his feature film acting debut in Ralph DeVito’s “Death Collector”. Martin Scorsese saw his work and cast him in the 1980 Academy Award-nominated film of the decade, “Raging Bull”… From that point until the present day, Frank has appeared in numerous television shows, music videos and over fifty feature films. Frank has demonstrated the ultimate degree of versatility as an actor from his Raging Bull’s arrogant “Salvi”, to his Do The Right Thing’s soaking wet “Charlie”, Jungle Fevers racist “Mike Tucci”, Casino’s suave “Frankie Marino” and his “Go home and get your shine box” Goodfella “Billy Batts”… Frank has worked with some of the greatest directors of our time, notably Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Spike Lee, John Sayles, Andrew Bergman and Sydney Lumet… He has ac