John Martino

John Martino is an actor and singer who grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and began performing as a teenager. Sessions with John Cassavetes and classes at Universal Art Studios and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts were followed by his first stage part, in Hat Full of Rain, an off-Broadway show. A hit single, Baby Sitting Baby, put him on Dick Clark's American Bandstand. He then moved to California, where his earliest screen appearance came on the television series The Wild Wild West, and he joined the Screen Actors Guild. His break came with the role of Paulie Gatto in Mario Puzo's The Godfather (1972). He also wrote screenplays, and in 2006 he won a Crystal Reel Award for his leading part in Confessions of a Thug, presented by the Florida Motion Picture Television Association. In 2013 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Treasure Coast International Film Festival.