# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tony-lip
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:03:50.435Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/tony-lip"
name: "Tony Lip"
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description: "He played mob muscle on screen for decades, then became the subject himself when his stint as driver and bodyguard to a Black concert pianist in the segregated South turned into an Oscar-winning film half a century later."
tagline: "American actor (1930–2013)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/Tony_lip_actor.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1930-07-30"
deathDate: "2013-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Frank Anthony Vallelonga Sr. was born July 30, 1930, and went by Tony Lip. Working at the Copacabana nightclub, he met Francis Ford Coppola and Louis DiGiaimo, which led to a small role in The Godfather—his film debut. From there he built a career playing mobsters: Philip Giaccone in Donnie Brasco, Francesco Manzo in Goodfellas, and crime boss Carmine Lupertazzi across multiple seasons of The Sopranos. In the early 1960s he'd driven and protected classical pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Jim Crow South; that chapter of his life became Green Book in 2018, with Viggo Mortensen playing him, and the film took Best Picture. He also co-wrote Shut Up and Eat! in 2005. Lip died January 4, 2013.