Joe Pantoliano

Actors

Joseph Peter Pantoliano (born September 12, 1951) is an American actor who has played more than 150 roles across film, television, and theater. He made his film debut in Joseph Strick’s Road Movie (1974), with Robert Drivas, Regina Baff, and Barry Bostwick; followed by an uncredited role in Peter Yates’s For Pete’s Sake (1974), with Barbra Streisand, Michael Sarrazin, and Estelle Parsons.

Films in the early 1980s include Taylor Hackford’s The Idolmaker (1980), with Ray Sharkey, Peter Gallagher, Paul Land, and Tovah Feldshuh; Frank Perry’s Monsignor (1982), with Christopher Reeve, Geneviève Bujold, Fernando Rey, Jason Miller, Joseph Cortese, Adolfo Celi, Leonardo Cimino, and Tomas Milan; Andrew Davis’s The Final Terror (1983), with John Friedrich, Rachel Ward, Daryl Hannah, Adrian Zmed, Mark Metcalf, and Akosua Busia; Risky Business (1983), with Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay, Nicholas Pryor, Janet Carroll, Richard Mauser, Curtis Armstrong, and Bronson Pinchot; Martin Davidson’s Eddie and the Cruisers (1983), with Tom Berenger, Michael Paré, Mathew Laurence, Helen Schneider, David Wilson, Michael “Tunes” Antunes, Ellen Barkin, and Kenny Vance; The Mean Season (1985), with Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan, Richard Masur, Joe Pantoliano, Luis Tamayo, and Andy García; and Richard Donner’s The Goonies (1985), with Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green, Martha Plimpton, Ke Huy Quan, John Matuszak, Robert Davi, and Anne Ramsey.

Films in the mid to late 1980s include Peter Hyams’s Running Scared (1986), with Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, Steven Bauer, Darlanne Fluegel, Dan Hedaya, Jimmy Smits, Jon Gries, Tracy Reed, and Larry Hankin; Scenes from the Goldmine (1987), with Catherine Mary Stewart, Cameron Dye, Steve Railsback, Alex Rocco, and Jewel Shepard; La Bamba (1987), with Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, Elizabeth Peña, and Danielle von Zerneck; The Squeeze (1987), with Michael Keaton and Rae Dawn Chong; Amazon Women on the Moon (1987), with Rosanna Arquette, Paul Bartel, Ralph Bellamy, Carrie Fisher, Sybil Danning, Griffin Dunne, Steve Forrest, Monique Gabrielle, Steve Allen, Steve Guttenberg, Arsenio Hall, Howard Hesseman, Lou Jacobi, Ed Begley, Jr., Russ Meyer, Kelly Preston, Henny Youngman, and B.B. King; Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun (1987), with Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, Masatō Ibu, Leslie Phillips, Ben Stiller, and Robert Stephens; The In Crowd (1988), with Donovan Leitch, Peter Boyle, and Bruce Kirby; and Midnight Run (1988), with Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, and Dennis Farina.

Films in the early 1990s include Richard Benjamin’s Downtown (1990), with Anthony Edwards, Forest Whitaker, and Penelope Ann Miller; The Last of the Finest (1990), with Brian Dennehy, Jeff Fahey, Bill Paxton, Deborra-Lee Furness, Guy Boyd, and Henry Darrow; Short Time (1990), with Dabney Coleman, Matt Frewer, and Teri Garr; an uncredited role in Backstreet Dreams (1990), with Brooke Shields, Jason O’Malley, Sherilyn Fenn, Anthony Franciosa, Burt Young, and Nick Cassavetes; Zandalee (1991), Nicolas Cage, Judge Reinhold, Erika Anderson, Viveca Lindfors, Aaron Neville,Marisa Tomei, Steve Buscemi, Ian Abercrombie, and Zach Galligan; Beeban Kidron’s Used People (1992), with Shirley MacLaine, Marcello Mastroianni, Bob Dishy, Kathy Bates, Marcia Gay Harden, Jessica Tandy, and Doris Roberts; Three of Hearts (1993), with William Baldwin, Kelly Lynch, and Fenn; The Fugitive (1993), with Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Julianne Moore, Andreas Katsulas, and Jeroen Krabbé; Calendar Girl (1993), with Jason Priestley, Gabriel Olds, and Jerry O’Connell; Me and the Kid (1993), with Danny Aiello, Alex Zuckerman, Cathy Moriarty, and David Dukes; Robot in the Family (1994), with John Rhys-Davies, Danny Gerard, and Amy Wright; Teresa’s Tattoo (1994), with C. Thomas Howell, Nancy McKeon, Phillips, Melissa Etheridge, Casey Siemaszko, Jonathan Silverman, Adrienne Shelly, Majel Barrett, and Tippi Hedren; and Patrick Read Johnson’s Baby’s Day Out (1994), with Joe Mantegna, Lara Flynn Boyle, Brian Haley, John Neville, and Eddie Bracken.

Films in the mid 1990s include Bad Boys (1995), with Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Téa Leoni, Tchéky Karyo, Theresa Randle; an uncredited role in Congo (1995), with Laura Linney, Dylan Walsh, Ernie Hudson, Grant Heslov, Joe Don Baker, Tim Curry, and Bruce Campbell; The Last Word (1995), with Timothy Hutton, Michelle Burke, Chazz Palminteri, and Tony Goldwyn; Steal Big Steal Little (1995), with García, Alan Arkin, Rachel Ticotin, Ally Walker, David Ogden Stiers, Kevin McCarthy, and Richard Bradford; The Immortals (1995), with Eric Roberts, Tia Carrere, Chris Rock, William Forsythe, Clarence Williams III, and Tony Curtis; Bad Business (1996), with Chris Mulkey, Chase Clifford, Tony Plana, Lawrence Mintz, Brian Doyle-Murray, and Karen Landry; The Wachowskis‘s Bound (1996), with Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, John Ryan, Christopher Meloni, and Richard C. Sarafian; Natural Enemy (1996), with Donald Sutherland, William McNamara, Lesley Ann Warren, and Carrere; Top of the World (1997), with Peter Weller, Dennis Hopper, Carrere, David Alan Grier, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Peter Coyote, Martin Kove, and Ed Lauter; and Tinseltown (1997), with Ayre Gross, Ron Perlman, Kristy Swanson, and Tom Wood.

Films in the late 1990s U.S. Marshals (1998), with Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey Jr., Daniel Roebuck, Wood, and LaTanya Richardson; Taxman (1998), with Wade Dominguez, Elizabeth Berkley, Robert Townsend, Michael Chiklis, Mike Starr, and Fisher Stevens; Hoods (1998), with Joe Mantegna, Kevin Pollak, and Tilly; an uncredited cameo in Forces of Nature (1999), with Ben Affleck, Sandra Bullock, Maura Tierney, Steve Zahn, Blythe Danner, and Ronny Cox; The Matrix (1999), with Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Hugo Weaving; James Toback’s Black and White (1999), with Downey, Gaby Hoffmann, Allan Houston, Jared Leto, Scott Caan, Claudia Schiffer, Brooke Shields, Bijou Phillips, Elijah Wood, Raekwon, Method Man, Ghostface Killah, Oli “Power” Grant, Masta Killa, Bruce Lamar Mayfield “Chip Banks”, Inspectah Deck, Fredro Starr, Sticky Fingaz, Stiller, Mike Tyson, and Michael B. Jordan; The Life Before This (1999), with Catherine O’Hara, Sarah Polley, and Stephen Rea; and New Blood (1999), with John Hurt, Nick Moran, Moss, and Shawn Wayans.

Films in the 2000s include Ready to Rumble (2000), with David Arquette, Oliver Platt, Caan, Bill Goldberg, Rose McGowan, Diamond Dallas Page, and Martin Landau; Christopher Nolan’s Memento (2000), with Guy Pearce, Moss, Mark Boone Junior, Stephen Tobolowsky, Harriet Sansom Harris, and Thomas Lennon; A Better Way to Die (2000), with Andre Braugher, Natasha Henstridge, and Philips; a voice role in Cats & Dogs (2001), with Jeff Goldblum, Elizabeth Perkins, Alexander Pollock, the voices of Tobey Maguire, Alec Baldwin, Sean Hayes, Susan Sarandon, Charlton Heston, Jon Lovitz, and Michael Clarke Duncan; The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002), with Eddie Murphy, Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson, Jay Mohr, Luis Guzmán, James Rebhorn, Boyle, Pam Grier, and John Cleese; Daredevil (2003), with Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Duncan, Colin Farrell, Jon Favreau, and David Keith; Bad Boys II (2003), with Smith, Lawrence, Randle, Jordi Mollà, Gabrielle Union, and Peter Stormare; Silver Man (2003), with Paul Popowich, Audrey Lupke, Daniel Baldwin, and Eugene Levy; Second Best (2004), with Tilly, Boyd Gaines, Pinchot, Barbara Barrie and Polly Draper; Perfect Opposites (2004), with Piper Perabo, Martin Henderson, Tilly, and Artie Lange; and a voice role in The Easter Egg Adventure (2004), with Shields and James Woods.

Films in the mid to late 2000s include a voice role in Racing Stripes (2005), with Hayden Panettiere, Bruce Greenwood, Wendie Malick, M. Emmet Walsh, the voices of Frankie Muniz, Mandy Moore, Duncan, Jeff Foxworthy, Joshua Jackson, Michael Rosenbaum, Steve Harvey, David Spade, Snoop Dogg, Fred Dalton Thompson, Dustin Hoffman and Whoopi Goldberg; The Amateurs (2005), with Lloyd Bridges, Ted Danson, William Fichtner, Patrick Fugit, Lauren Graham, Glenne Headly, Tim Blake Nelson, Valerie Perrine, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and Eileen Brennan; Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006), with Larry the Cable Guy, Iris Bahr, Bruce Bruce, Joanna Cassidy, Brooke Dillman, Tony Hale, David Koechner, Lisa Lampanelli, Megyn Price, and Tom Wilson; Michael Ian Black’s Wedding Daze (2006), with Jason Biggs, Isla Fisher, Joanna Gleason, Edward Herrmann, Michael Weston, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Margot Martindale; Canvas (2006), with Marcia Gay Harden and Devon Gearhart; Unknown (2006), with Jim Caviezel, Greg Kinnear, Bridget Moynahan, Barry Pepper, Jeremy Sisto, and Stormare; The Job (2009), with Patrick Flueger, Taryn Manning, Perlman, and Katie Lowe; and Falling Up (2009), with Joseph Cross, Sarah Roemer, Snoop Dogg, Rachael Leigh Cook, Claudette Lali, Mimi Rogers, and Annette O’Toole.

Films in the 2010s include Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), with Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, Jake Abel, Sean Bean, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Coogan, Dawson, Catherine Keener, Kevin McKidd, and Uma Thurman; Deadly Impact (2010), with Sean Patrick Flanery, Carmen Serano, Greg Serano, and Amanda Wyss; a voice role in Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010), with Chris O’Donnell, Jack McBrayer, Fred Armisen, Paul Rodriguez, the voices of James Marsden, Nick Nolte, Christina Applegate, Katt Williams, Bette Midler, Neil Patrick Harris, Wallace Shawn, Roger Moore, Sean Hayes, and Duncan; a voice role in The Legend of Secret Pass (2010), with Muniz, Graham Greene, Shelley Berman, Chiklis, David Cross, Debi Derryberry, Perlman, and Christy Carlson Romano; Loosies (2011), with Peter Facinelli, Jaimie Alexander, Michael Madsen, William Forsythe, Romano, Glenn Ciano, Vincent Gallo and Chad A. Verdi; Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life (2011), with Mira Sorvino; and The Identical (2014), with Erin Cottrell
Amanda Crew, Brian Geraghty, Seth Green, Ashley Judd, Blake Rayne, and Ray Liotta.

Films in the mid to late 2010s include The Perfect Match (2016), with Terrence J, Cassie Ventura, Donald Faison, Dascha Polanco, Robert Christopher Riley, Lauren London, and Paula Patton; Just Getting Started (2017), with Morgan Freeman, Jones, Rene Russo, Headly, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Elizabeth Ashley, George Wallace, Graham Beckel, Jane Seymour, and Johnny Mathis; Happy Anniversary (2018), with Noël Wells, Ben Schwartz, Jeff Grace, Rahul Kohli, Kristin Bauer van Straten, Kate Berlant, Leonardo Nam, David Walton, Isidora Goreshter, and Annie Potts; Feast of the Seven Fishes (2018), with Skyler Gisondo, Madison Iseman, Josh Helman, Addison Timlin, Ray Abruzzo, Lynn Cohen, Paul Ben-Victor, and Jessica Darrow; The Brawler (2018), with Zach McGowan, Amy Smart, and Taryn Manning; and From the Vine (2019), with Wendy Crewson, Paula Brancati, Marco Leonardi, Tony Nardi, Tony Nappo, Kevin Hanchard, and Frank Moore.

Films in the 2020s include Bad Boys for Life (2020), with Smith, Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Paola Núñez, Charles Melton, Kate del Castillo, and Nicky Jam; Hide and Seek (2021), with Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jacinda Barrett, and Mustafa Shakir; Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024), with Smith, Lawrence, Tasha Smith, Eric Dane, Ioan Gruffudd, Melanie Liburd, and Rhea Seehorn; and Violent Night 2 (2026), with David Harbour, Kristen Bell, Jared Harris, Maxwell Friedman, Daniela Melchior, and Andrew Bachelor.

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

  • Road Movie (1974) – directed by Joseph Strick
  • For Pete’s Sake (1974) – directed by Peter Yates – uncredited
  • More Than Friends (1978) – directed by James Burrows – TV movie
  • From Here to Eternity (1979) – directed by Buzz Kulik – miniseries
  • The Idolmaker (1980) – directed by Taylor Hackford
  • Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (1980) – directed by Paul Krasny – TV movie
  • Monsignor (1982) – directed by Frank Perry
  • The Final Terror (1983) – directed by Andrew Davis
  • Risky Business (1983) – directed by Paul Brickman
  • Eddie and the Cruisers (1983) – directed by Martin Davidson
  • Mister Roberts (1984) – directed by Melvin Bernhardt – TV movie
  • Robert Kennedy and His Times (1985) – directed by Marvin J. Chomsky – miniseries
  • The Mean Season (1985) – directed by Phillip Borsos
  • The Goonies (1985)** – directed by Richard Donner
  • Running Scared (1986) – directed by Peter Hyams
  • Destination America (1987) – directed by Corey Allen – TV movie
  • Scenes from the Goldmine (1987) – directed by Marc Rocco
  • La Bamba (1987) – directed by Luis Valdez
  • The Squeeze (1987) – directed by Roger Young
  • Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) – directed by Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton, John Landis, & Robert K. Weiss – anthology
  • Empire of the Sun (1987) – directed by Steven Spielberg
  • The In Crowd (1988) – directed by Mark Rosenthal
  • Rock ‘n’ Roll Mom (1988) – directed by Michael Schultz – TV movie
  • Midnight Run (1988) – directed by Martin Brest
  • Nightbreaker (1989) – directed by Peter Markle – TV movie
  • Downtown (1990) – directed by Richard Benjamin
  • The Last of the Finest (1990) – directed by John Mackenzie
  • Short Time (1990) – directed by Gregg Champion
  • El Diablo (1990) – directed by Peter Markle – TV movie
  • Backstreet Dreams (1990) – directed by Rupert Hitzig & Jason O’Malley – uncredited
  • Arduous Moon (1990) – directed by Julie Cypher – short
  • Zandalee (1991) – directed by Sam Pillsbury
  • One Special Victory (1991) – directed by Stuart Cooper – TV movie
  • Used People (1992) – directed by Beeban Kidron
  • Through the Eyes of a Killer (1992) – directed by Peter Markle – TV movie
  • Three of Hearts (1993) – directed by Yurek Bogayevicz
  • The Fugitive (1993) – directed by Andrew Davis
  • Calendar Girl (1993) – directed by John Whitesell
  • Me and the Kid (1993) – directed by Dan Curtis
  • Dangerous Heart (1994) – directed by Michael M. Scott – TV movie
  • Robot in the Family (1994) – directed by Mark Richardson & Jack Shaoul
  • Teresa’s Tattoo (1994) – directed by Julie Cypher
  • Baby’s Day Out (1994)* – directed by Patrick Read Johnson
  • The Spy Within (1995) – directed by Steve Railsback
  • Bad Boys (1995) – directed by Michael Bay
  • The Immortals (1995) – directed by Brian Grant
  • Congo (1995)* – directed by Frank Marshall – uncredited
  • The Last Word (1995) – directed by Tony Spiridakis
  • Steal Big Steal Little (1995) – directed by Andrew Davis
  • Bad Business (1996) – directed by Murray Mintz
  • Bound (1996) – directed by The Wachowskis
  • Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct: Ice (1996) – directed by Bradford May – TV movie
  • Natural Enemy (1996) – directed by Douglas Jackson
  • Top of the World (1997) – directed by Sidney J. Furie
  • Tinseltown (1997) – directed by Tony Spiridakis
  • U.S. Marshals (1998) – directed by Stuart Baird
  • Taxman (1998) – directed by Avi Nesher
  • Hoods (1998) – directed by Mark Malone
  • Forces of Nature (1999) – directed by Bronwen Hughes – uncredited cameo
  • The Matrix (1999)** – directed by The Wachowskis
  • Black and White (1999) – directed by James Toback
  • The Life Before This (1999) – directed by Jerry Ciccoritti
  • New Blood (1999) – directed by Michael Hurst
  • Olive, the Other Reindeer (1999) – directed by Steve Moore – TV short
  • Ready to Rumble (2000) – directed by Brian Robbins
  • Memento (2000) – directed by Christopher Nolan
  • A Better Way to Die (2000) – directed by Scott Wiper
  • Cats & Dogs (2001) – directed by Lawrence Guterman
  • A Call for Help (2002) – directed by Michael Thai – short
  • The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) – directed by Ron Underwood
  • Daredevil (2003)* – directed by Mark Steven Johnson
  • Bad Boys II (2003) – directed by Michael Bay
  • Silver Man (2003) – directed by Peter Foldy
  • Second Best (2004) – directed by Eric Weber
  • Perfect Opposites (2004) – directed by Matt Cooper
  • The Easter Egg Adventure (2004) – directed by John Michael Williams
  • Racing Stripes (2005) – directed by Frederik Du Chau
  • The Check Up (2005) – directed by Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris – short
  • The Amateurs (2005) – directed by Michael Traeger
  • Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006) – directed by Trent Cooper
  • Wedding Daze (2006) – directed by Michael Ian Black
  • Canvas (2006) – directed by Joseph Greco
  • Unknown (2006) – directed by Simón Brand
  • The Job (2009) – directed by Shem Bitterman
  • Falling Up (2009) – directed by David M. Rosenthal
  • Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)* – directed by Chris Columbus
  • Deadly Impact (2010) – directed by Robert Kurtzman
  • Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010) – directed by Brad Peyton
  • New York Street Games (2010) – directed by Matt Levy – self – documentary
  • The Legend of Secret Pass (2010) – directed by Steve Trenbirth
  • Loosies (2011) – directed by Michael Corrente
  • Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life (2011) – directed by Tamar Halpern
  • The Identical (2014) – directed by Dustin Marcellino
  • The Perfect Match (2016) – directed by Bille Woodruff
  • Just Getting Started (2017) – directed by Ron Shelton
  • Happy Anniversary (2018) – directed by Jared Stern
  • Feast of the Seven Fishes (2018) – directed by Robert Tinnell
  • The Brawler (2018) – directed by Ken Kushner
  • From the Vine (2019) – directed by Sean Cisterna
  • Bad Boys for Life (2020) – directed by Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah
  • Hide and Seek (2021) – directed by Joel David Moore
  • Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024) – directed by Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah
  • Violent Night 2 (2026) – directed by Tommy Wirkola