Tony Rosato

Tony Rosato was a Canadian actor and comedian who came to Canada from Naples at age four and grew up in Halifax, Ottawa and Toronto. He began in improv comedy with The Second City, leaving the University of Toronto, and his first notice came after he and Robin Duke became part of SCTV's cast in 1980. His best known character on the show was Marcello Sebastiano, a TV chef. He then spent the 1981 to 1982 season on Saturday Night Live. In 1983 he played Aldo, a busboy, on Bea Arthur's short lived series Amanda's, and from 1985 to 1989 he played Arthur Morelli on the Canadian police drama Night Heat. He voiced Luigi in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World, and later provided the voice of Dario Rosso and the title creature in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. He died in 2017.