Known for Acting
Tony Darrow (born Anthony Borgese; October 1, 1938) is an Italian-American actor. Darrow was born in the East New York section of Brooklyn. Darrow had plenty of opportunity to observe would-be mobsters and their attitudes while growing up in his neighborhood in Brooklyn. As a teenager, he gravitated towards show business, entering and winning talent shows while working odd jobs. After ten years of singing in nightclubs, Darrow received an offer to appear in what turned out to be a cult film, Street Trash in which he played a mobster. Several months after Street Trash, Darrow was contacted by the film director Martin Scorsese. It turned out that Scorsese had seen Street Trash and wanted him to audition for a role in Goodfellas. He was successful and was cast as the owner of the Bamboo Lounge, Sonny. Darrow was also in the Woody Allen films Bullets over Broadway, Mighty Aphrodite, Deconstructing Harry, Small Time Crooks and Sweet and Lowdown. In 1999, Darrow played a large role in Analyze This with Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal. The following year, he appeared in Mickey Blue Eyes with Hugh Grant, and got another big role as mobster Larry Barese in the HBO hit series The Sopranos, which he was on for the entire series run (1999–2007). More recently, Darrow starred in the independent film Lynch Mob.
Born
October 1, 1938 (age 87)
Birthplace
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Filmography
31 films, 8 shows


Once a Week for Life
2026 · 1h 50m
country: United States
NYPD Lt. Adam Galanis leads the Fugitive Task Force as he tumbles through a merciless life while balancing on a razors edge. Adam fights personal demons and addictions when he's forced to take revenge on plotting traitors and the mafia who are trying to kill him.


Micki
2023 · 50m
country: United States
Sixteen-year-old Micki never met her parents. Raised by her ex-gangster grandfather Pops and crazy Uncle Sal, she develops a scheme to set her family up for life. A simple robbery, a violent loan shark, and a ticking clock. What could go wrong?


The Families Feud
2023 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
A mob boss must fend off repeated assassination attempts from a rival boss while battling backwoods Bigfoot hunting hillbillies who've captured his Capo and crew.


Killin Smallz
2022 · 1h 10m
country: United States
A mob family that is not earning like they did in the past comes up with crazy idea after watching the movie, Stealing A Survivor, to kidnap someone famous for ransom. After picking their target, Tom Guiry known as Smalls from the Sandlot, they enlist the help of the director of Stealing A Survivor, Ray Martin, to consult them on how to kidnap a celebrity.


Made in Chinatown
2021 · 1h 29m
country: United States
A young Chinese nobody sets out to become a Don in the Italian Mafia. It turns out that earning respect, finding love, and discovering his identity doesn't come so easy. He'll have to fight his way to the top.


Offstage Elements
2019 · 1h 47m
country: United States
An aspiring heavy metal band's lead singer returns to the rock scene as a devout "born-again" Christian after his cancer goes into remission. The band's members struggle with this drastic transformation while dealing with their own downward spirals.


The Brawler
2019 · 1h 35m
country: United States
The true story of underdog boxer, Chuck Wepner, who gets a shot to fight the champ, Muhammed Ali.


The Uncle Gerry Show
2017 · 27m
country: United States
Set in 1978, "The Uncle Gerry Show" chronicles the chaos of the most successful regional late night entertainer. Gerry Rocco is adored by all. His manager Donnie books the hottest acts of the 1960's and 1970's. Gerry struggles dealing with the temptations of fame, the time period, and a business run with his family, as a budding Italian film director captures the reality of Uncle Gerry's life. In the pilot episode John Lennon and Yoko Ono go head to head with Uncle Gerry.


Friends and Romans
2014 · 1h 28m
country: Unknown
A group of lifelong mob movie extras mount a production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in their local Staten Island theater in order to finally get some speaking roles. But the theater is the secret hideout of a real-life gangster who fancies himself an actor, and whom the FBI are hunting for the recent murder of a Broadway producer. The Feds insert their own undercover agent to audition for the role of Cassius, seeking to determine who is the real gangster among a cast of make-believe criminals. All the while, the oblivious cast seek only to prove to themselves, their families, and friends that they are more than just extras.


Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn
2013 · 1h 56m
country: United States
After being released from prison, Bobby goes back to the mob connected streets. When forced to make a life altering decision the truth is revealed that he was too blind to see.


Kill the Irishman
2011 · 1h 46m
country: United States
Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob.
Lynch Mob
Lynch Mob
2009 · 1h 39m
country: United States
The rural town of Lynchburg Georgia holds a dark secret. A century old curse has condemned the citizens to a diet of human flesh. Unable to leave the city limits the town folks must lure unsuspecting travelers to their quaint town where they soon become the menu item of choice.


Searching for Bobby D
2005
country: Unknown
Four young filmmakers try to raise money for their project by telling potential investors that Robert De Niro is on board -- now, they have to find him.


Crooked Lines
2003 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Johnny, Chris, Sal, and Joe are four petty crooks thrown together for the job of a lifetime. $1 million in mob money being held at a delicatessen for pick-up seems like an easy score until the bumbling quartet collaborate to mess the whole thing up. Suddenly the Brooklyn mafia and police are on their trail and the fool proof plan now looks like a death trap.


Small Time Crooks
2000 · 1h 34m
country: United States
A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.


Sweet and Lowdown
1999 · 1h 35m
country: United States
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.


Mickey Blue Eyes
1999 · 1h 42m
country: United Kingdom
An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "favors" would be asked of him.


Analyze This
1999 · 1h 43m
country: United States
Countless wiseguy films are spoofed in this film that centers on the neuroses and angst of a powerful Mafia racketeer who suffers from panic attacks. When Paul Vitti needs help dealing with his role in the "family," unlucky shrink Dr. Ben Sobel is given just days to resolve Vitti's emotional crisis and turn him into a happy, well-adjusted gangster.


Celebrity
1998 · 1h 53m
country: United States
The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one lavish party to another and engages in numerous empty romances, he starts to doubt the worth of his work. Meanwhile, top TV producer Tony falls for Robin and introduces her to the world of celebrity.


The North End
1998 · 1h 48m
country: Unknown
A young filmmaker living in Boston's Italian district, the North End, wants to make a film about the neighborhood. He needs the blessing of a local celebrity, famous for playing gangsters in movies.


Deconstructing Harry
1997 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
On Seventh Avenue
On Seventh Avenue
1996 · 2h
country: United States
A rising designer leaves a top fashion house to rescue her retired father's New York apparel business.


Mighty Aphrodite
1995 · 1h 35m
country: United States
When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda Ash, a kindhearted prostitute and porn star, Lenny is determined to reform her immoral lifestyle. A Greek chorus chimes in to relate the plot to Greek mythology in this quirky comedy.


Bullets Over Broadway
1994 · 1h 38m
country: United States
After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a psychiatrist—but not only is she a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist—she's a dreadful actress. David puts up with the leading man who is a compulsive eater, the grand dame who wants her part jazzed up, and Olive's interfering hitman/bodyguard—but, eventually he must decide whether art or life is more important.


Who Do I Gotta Kill?
1994 · 1h 24m
country: United States
A struggling writer takes a job for his mobster uncle in order to obtain first-hand material for a book on conspiracy plots and the JFK assassination. They often say that a good writer lives what he writes, but what happens when the life that the writer is living could likely get him killed?


Men Lie
1994 · 1h 27m
country: Unknown
Swearing fidelity to his fiancée, two-faced Scott attempts to bed every woman who crosses his path.


Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
1992 · 1h 30m
country: United States
For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, the fight was on to see who could follow him. Jackie Presser was the son of a long time union board member and when he retired, Jackie was elevated to one of the most powerful position in the country; President of the Teamsters Union.


The Good Policeman
1991 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Isaac Seidel is a highly unconventional New York police-commissioner. He is well-abled in dealing with trouble at the headquarter, the maffia and situations in the streets. His loyalty to his profession and the city he so loves make him do the utmost to solve the problems, even if it means he has to bend the rules.


GoodFellas
1990 · 2h 25m
country: United States
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.


Swirlee
1989 · 16m
country: United States
Tells the story of Mr. Softee, a mutant hybrid with an ice cream cone for a head, who was the victim of the anti-miscarriage drug "Nodroppinum" which changed the pregnant mother's child into whatever food she craved at the time (a parody of the Thyladimide scandal from the 60s.) Softee was the head of an ice cream company, until he was forced out of business by the artificial ice cream mafia, led by Don Tofutti.


Street Trash
1987 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A group of hobos begin melting into multicolored piles of goo after drinking sixty-year-old liquor. At the same time, the psychotic Vietnam War vet who rules the hobo camp snaps and begins killing at random. Two brothers set out to stop the liquor and the killer.