Tom Rosqui
Biography
Tom Rosqui was an American character actor who began his professional career in 1951, acting in Show Boat at St. John Terrell's Music Circus in Sacramento. Raised in Sacramento, he attended Sacramento Junior College and then the College of the Pacific on a drama scholarship. He performed with San Francisco's Actor's Workshop while in the U.S. Navy, then toured nationally in The Cocktail Party. After his discharge he moved to New York and later returned to San Francisco for Herbert Blau's play Gift of Fury. Blau and Jules Irving brought him into the Lincoln Center Repertory Company, where he spent two years in The Condemned of Altona and Danton's Death. On Broadway he took roles in Sticks and Bones and The Price. On screen he was best known as Rocco Lampone, the Corleone family bodyguard, in the first two Godfather films, including The Godfather: Part II (1974). By the 1980s he worked in theater.
62years old at death
- Born Oakland
- Died Los Angeles
- Star sign: GeminiThe sign runs May 21 to June 20
- Also credited as Thomas Francis Rosqui
Movie Career
- Films
- 4
- Career span
- 9 years1968 to 1977
Every film, newest first
- 1977MacArthurIMDb rating 6.5
- 1976The Great Texas Dynamite ChaseIMDb rating 5.8
- 1974The Godfather: Part IIIMDb rating 9.0
- 1968The Thomas Crown AffairIMDb rating 6.9
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Worked with
Tom Rosqui shares two films with G.D. Spradlin, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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All films by Francis Ford Coppola
All films by Norman Jewison
Joseph SargentDirector, 1 film, 1977
All films by Joseph Sargent
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