Known for Acting
Reni Santoni (April 21, 1939 – August 1, 2020) was an American film, television and voice actor. Santoni was born in New York City of French and Spanish descent. He began his career in off-Broadway theatre. His first significant film role was an uncredited appearance in the 1964 film The Pawnbroker, starring Rod Steiger, in which he played a junkie trying to sell a radio to the title character, using anti-Semitic slurs that have absolutely no effect. Santoni's first leading role was as the young actor in Carl Reiner's Enter Laughing. His other well-known film roles include Inspector "Chico" González in the 1971 classic Dirty Harry, as Ramon Herrera in the 1983 hit drama Bad Boys, and as detective Tony Gonzales in 1986 action film Cobra. Around that time, he also made guest appearances on television shows such as Barnaby Jones, Lou Grant, Hawaii Five-O, Hardcastle and McCormick, Hill Street Blues and Midnight Caller. In 1973, he was a junior partner on, "Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law". (Santoni and "Owen Marshall" co-star Lee Majors were born the same week in April 1939). Santoni continued to work in film and television through to the 21st century. Some of his more memorable characterizations include "Poppie," the unhygienic restaurateur on TV's Seinfeld, and "Captain Carlos Rodríguez" in Carl Reiner's comedy film Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. Description above from the Wikipedia article Reni Santoni, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
April 21, 1939
Died
August 1, 2020 (age 81)
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Filmography
42 films, 46 shows


A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
2008 · 24m
country: United States
Filmmakers, social scientists and authors take a provocative look at the moral, political and ethical themes of the Dirty Harry films.


The Business End: Violence in Cinema
2008 · 30m
country: United States
An unflinching look at the ongoing debate on violence in movies and its effect on the audience.


The Evolution of Clint Eastwood
2008 · 26m
country: United States
Follow Eastwood's career from television star to matinee idol to Oscar-winning director in this wide-ranging documentary.


Gang Warz
2004 · 1h 37m
country: Unknown
L.A.'s top Latino gang leader is release from jail on a technicality, swearing to kill both the cop who put him away and the priest who testified against him.


Dr. Dolittle 2
2001 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A group of beavers ask Dr. Dolittle to save their habitat from loggers. The only hope is to get the forest preserved because it's the home of a protected bear, but there's a problem: the bear's the only bear in the forest, so she can't reproduce. Undaunted, Dolittle persuades a circus bear to help out, but he has to teach him not just the ways of the wild, but the wiles of lady bears too.


28 Days
2000 · 1h 43m
country: United States
After getting into a car accident while drunk on the day of her sister's wedding, Gwen Cummings is given a choice between prison or a rehab center. She chooses rehab, but is extremely resistant to taking part in any of the treatment programs they have to offer, refusing to admit that she has an alcohol addiction.


Late Last Night
1999 · 1h 30m
country: United States
After a fight with his wife, who's leaving him, Dan's day is getting worse by the minute. He calls an old friend for a night of binge drinking and intoxication. They start a cathartic ride through the city's underbelly.


Doctor Dolittle
1998 · 1h 25m
country: United States
A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is suddenly reawakened with a vengeance! Now every creature within squawking distance wants the good doctor's advice, unleashing an outrageous chain of events that turns his world upside down!


Can't Hardly Wait
1998 · 1h 40m
country: United States
It's graduation day at Huntington Hills High, and you know what that means - time to party. And not just any party, either. This one will be a night to remember, as the nerds become studs, the jocks are humiliated, and freshman crushes blossom into grown-up romance.


Murder One: Diary of a Serial Killer
1997
country: United States
Wyler and associates take on the case of an admitted serial killer.


Private Parts
1997 · 1h 49m
country: United States
The life and career of shock-jock superstar Howard Stern is recounted from his humble beginnings to his view from the top. Possessing a desire to be an on-air personality since childhood, Stern meanders through the radio world, always with his supportive wife, Alison, by his side. Landing a gig in Washington, D.C., Stern meets Robin Quivers, who will become his long-time partner in crime. When the two move to New York, they face the wrath of NBC executives.


The Late Shift
1996 · 1h 35m
country: United States
David Letterman vies with Jay Leno and his manager to succeed Johnny Carson, retiring from "The Tonight Show."


The Brady Bunch Movie
1995 · 1h 29m
country: United States
The original '70s TV family is now placed in the 1990s, where they're even more square and out of place than ever.


Groundhog Day
1993 · 1h 41m
country: United States
A cynical TV weatherman, along with his idealistic producer and his sardonic cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.


Only You
1992 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Dumped by his fiancée, Clifford Godfrey goes on vacation anyway where he ends up torn between a sober party girl and his travel agent.


Cat Chaser
1989 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A Miami hotel owner finds danger when he becomes romantically involved with the wife of a deposed general from the Dominican Republic where he fought many years back.


The Package
1989 · 1h 48m
country: United States
Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.


Rain Man
1988 · 2h 14m
country: United States
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.


Bright Lights, Big City
1988 · 1h 47m
country: Japan
A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.


The Pick-up Artist
1987 · 1h 21m
country: United States
A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.


Radioactive Dreams
1986 · 1h 34m
country: Mexico
After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in an bunker, stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. Now, 19 years old, they leave their shelter to find a world full of mutants, freaks and cannibals. They become famous detectives in the struggle for the two keys that could fire the last nuclear weapon.


Cobra
1986 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans.


Second Serve
1986 · 1h 38m
country: United States
Fact-based story about tennis pro Renee Richards, whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it was revealed that she was a trans woman. Flashback to 1964 before she was out as trans, a successful New York doctor with a great lifestyle, a flashy girl friend, and a secret life. Her psychiatrist mother refuses to deal with her and sends her to a colleague who diagnoses with a psychotic gender confusion, which he says can be unlearned. After a failed marriage and parenthood, she comes out as trans, with a new life in California.


No Greater Gift
1985 · 45m
country: United States
Two terminally ill boys strike up a friendship in a hospital ward. One of the boys decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to the other so he can have a chance at life.


Summer Rental
1985 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters, and steadily get worse. Jack ends up in a feud with a local yachtsman, and has to race him to regain his pride and family's respect.


Brewster's Millions
1985 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can successfully spend $30 million in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's a lot harder than it sounds!


Bad Boys
1983 · 2h 3m
country: United States
Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a rite of passage and respect is measured in vengeance.


Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.


They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
1978 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Dewey and Wallace are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison inmates to find out where a gang of thieves have hidden their loot. While they're undercover, however, the governor dies, and because no one else knows about the ruse Dewey and Wallace are stranded in prison.


Tarzana
1978 · 30m
country: United States
A private detective takes on a strange case.


I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
1977 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.


Panic on the 5:22
1974 · 1h 13m
country: United States
Three armed men take over a private railroad car, determined to rob and kill the passengers.


Indict and Convict
1974 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A prosecutor must try his friend, a deputy district attorney, who has been charged with murdering his wife and her lover.


Dirty Harry
1971 · 1h 42m
country: United States
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath.


Powderkeg
1971 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A Mexican bandit is about to be executed in the United States, so his brother takes over a train and holds the passengers as hostages unless his brother is released. Now both the Americans and Mexicans are baffled as to what to do. One of the passengers — who wrote the letter for their captor — has a suggestion: call mercenaries Hank Brackett and Johnny Reech. They do, and as expected they do come up with a plan, but the president of the railroad is not sure if it will work.


The Student Nurses
1970 · 1h 22m
country: United States
Four female college students in Los Angeles, who live together and have nursing internships at the same hospital, have their lives complicated by love, sex, drugs and revolution.


Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969 · 1h 45m
country: United States
When Mexican revolutionary leader Quintero is left to rot in jail by the forces of President Diaz, it's up to his subordinate, Max, to bust him out. With $600 in hand, he crosses the border into America and hires Chris Adams, a mercenary of considerable skill, who uses the rest of the cash on more hired guns. After the team is rounded out by experts on close-combat fighting, explosives, and knife-throwing, they set off to free Quintero.


Anzio
1968 · 1h 57m
country: Italy
American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to Rome, they dig in and the Germans fight back ferociously.
A Great Big Thing
A Great Big Thing
1968 · 1h 20m
country: Canada
A 23-year-old Canadian wanders aimlessly throughout his wasted life.


Enter Laughing
1967 · 1h 52m
country: United States
A machinist's apprentice in Depression-era New York, David dreams of becoming the new Ronald Colman. Defying the wishes of his parents, David lands a nonpaying job in a seedy theatrical production directed by broken-down ham Marlowe.


The Pawnbroker
1965 · 1h 56m
country: United States
A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.


Strangers in the City
1962 · 1h 20m
country: United States
When their father loses his job, members of a Puerto Rican family struggle to survive in New York.