# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vincent-gardenia
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:34:57.263Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vincent-gardenia"
name: "Vincent Gardenia"
slug: "vincent-gardenia"
description: "Vincent Gardenia was an Italian American stage, film and television actor. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, first for Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) and again for Moonstruck (1987). He also portrayed Det. Frank Ochoa in Death Wish (1974) and its 1982 sequel, Death Wish II, and played Mr. Mushnik in the musical film adaptation Little Shop of Horrors (1986). His other notable feature films include Murder Inc. (1960), The Hustler (1961), The Front Page (1974), Greased Lightning (1977), Heaven Can Wait (1978) and The Super (1991)."
tagline: "American actor (1920-1992)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vincent_Gardenia_All_In_the_Family_1972_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1920-01-07"
deathDate: "1992-12-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump