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Vincent Andrew Schiavelli was an American character actor noted for his work on stage, screen, and television. Described as an "instantly recognizable sad-faced actor", he was diagnosed with Marfan syndrome in childhood.
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culture · American actor (1948–2005) · actor · stage actor · television actor · journalist · film actor · voice actor · writer · also Vincent Schiavelli, Schiavelli
Born 11 November 1948 · Died 26 December 2005 · Q333190
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At the age of 57 at his home in Polizzi Generosa, the Sicilian town near Palermo where his grandfather Andrea Coco was born, and about which he wrote in his 2002 book Many Beautiful Things: Stories and Recipes from Poliz
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Died 2005-12-26.
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Played a children's television show host turned heroin addict named Buggy Ding Dong in Death to Smoochy
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Appeared in the music video for ZZ Top's "Breakaway", alongside Fairuza Balk and in 1997, was named one of America's best character actors by Vanity Fair magazine
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Vincent Schiavelli then married harpist Carol Sue Mukhalian on October 23, 1992.
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Played the Subway Ghost in Ghost and in 1992, he played in Tim Burton's Batman Returns as the "Organ Grinder", one of the Penguin's henchmen
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Starred alongside Tim Conway in the short film comedy Dorf on Golf, and then Dorf and the First Games of Mount Olympus in 1988
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Appeared as Lyle, a gangster, in the MacGyver season 2 episode "Soft Touch"
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As Peter Panama in The Corner Bar, the first sustained portrayal of a gay character on American television
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Born 1948-11-11.
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