Joe Pantoliano
Joseph Peter Pantoliano (born September 12, 1951) is an American actor who has played over 150 roles across film, television, and theater. He is best known for portraying Francis Fratelli in The Goonies (1985), Captain Conrad Howard in the Bad Boys film series (1995–2024), Cypher in the Wachowskis' sci-fi action film The Matrix (1999), Teddy in Christopher Nolan's psychological thriller film Memento (2000), and Ralph "Ralphie" Cifaretto on the HBO crime drama The Sopranos (2001–2004), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Other notable film credits include Risky Business (1983), Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (1987), La Bamba (1987), Midnight Run (1988), The Fugitive (1993), Baby's Day Out (1994), the Wachowskis' directorial debut Bound (1996), and Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010). In 2025, he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in The Last of Us. Pantoliano has published two memoirs and is active in the field of mental health, having documented his mother's issues and his own. He founded the nonprofit No Kidding, Me Too!, which is dedicated to removing the stigma from mental illness. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joe Pantoliano, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Sep 12, 1951 In Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 167
- First Appeared:
- In the series M*A*S*H 1972-09-17
- Latest Project:
- Movie I Took My Avocado to Aspen, Colorado 2027
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | I Took My Avocado to Aspen, Colorado | Narrator | 2027 |
| Movie | Higher Love | Unknown | 2027 |
| Series | Wonder Man | Joe Pantoliano | 2026-01-27 |
| Movie | The Isolate Thief | Unknown | 2026-07-10 |
| Movie | Violent Night 2 | Unknown | 2026-12-02 |
| Movie | Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story | Uncle Tommy Rossi | 2025-11-22 |
| Movie | Bad Boys: Ride or Die | Captain Howard | 2024-06-05 |
| Movie | Home Delivery | Gary Templeton | 2024-02-05 |
| Movie | Bad Boys: Legacy | Self | 2024-07-24 |
| Series | Dexter: Original Sin | Anthony Moretti | 2024-12-15 |
| Movie | A Journey to Sundance | Self | 2023-01-01 |
| Series | The Last of Us | Eugene Lynden | 2023-01-15 |
| Series | Chucky | Joe Pantoliano | 2021-10-12 |
| Series | Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years | Sticky Fins Whiting (voice) | 2021-03-04 |
| Movie | The Santa Stakeout | Mr. Miller | 2021-10-24 |
| Movie | Hide and Seek | Collin Carmichael | 2021-11-19 |
| Movie | Bad Boys for Life | Captain Howard | 2020-01-15 |
| Series | Reunited Apart | Self | 2020-04-27 |
| Movie | The Brawler | Al Braverman | 2019-01-18 |
| Series | Tacoma FD | Eddie Penisi Sr. | 2019-03-25 |
| Movie | From the Vine | Marco Gentile | 2019-12-27 |
| Movie | Feast of the Seven Fishes | Uncle Frankie | 2019-11-15 |
| Movie | Happy Anniversary | Aldo | 2018-03-30 |
| Movie | Lake Placid: Legacy | Henderson | 2018-05-28 |
| Movie | Random Tropical Paradise | Vincent Gambazzo | 2017-06-09 |
| Movie | Just Getting Started | Joey | 2017-12-01 |
| Series | MacGyver | Eric Andrews | 2016-09-23 |
| Movie | The Perfect Match | Marty | 2016-03-11 |
| Movie | Sense8: A Christmas Special | Michael Gorski | 2016-12-23 |
| Series | Sense8 | Michael Gorski | 2015-06-05 |
| Movie | Hail Ceasar with Joe Pantoliano | Self | 2014-08-18 |
| Movie | The Identical | Avi Hirshberg | 2014-09-05 |
| Movie | Loosies | Carl | 2012-02-01 |
| Movie | 12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief | Self | 2012-12-12 |
| Movie | Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life | Oswald | 2012-03-06 |
| Movie | Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief | Gabe Ugliano | 2010-02-01 |
| Movie | Deadly Impact | David Kaplow | 2010-04-20 |
| Movie | Making of a Cult Classic: The Unauthorized Story of 'The Goonies' | Self | 2010-07-13 |
| Movie | The Legend of Secret Pass | Chuckster (voice) | 2010-10-14 |
| Movie | Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore | Peek (voice) | 2010-07-29 |
| Movie | New York Street Games | Self | 2010-07-28 |
| Movie | No Kidding, Me Too! | Himself | 2009-01-01 |
| Movie | The Job | Perriman | 2009-09-26 |
| Movie | Falling Up | George | 2009-09-29 |
| Movie | The Dream Is Always the Same: The Story of Risky Business | Self | 2008-09-16 |
| Movie | The Amateurs | Some Idiot | 2006-04-22 |
| Movie | Wedding Daze | Smitty | 2006-09-09 |
| Movie | Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector | Mayor M.T. Gunn | 2006-03-24 |
| Movie | Deceit | Anthony | 2006-10-22 |
| Movie | Unknown | Bound Man | 2006-11-03 |
| Movie | Canvas | John Marino | 2006-11-12 |
| Movie | ...So Goes the Nation | Self | 2006-10-04 |
| Movie | Racing Stripes | Goose (voice) | 2005-01-06 |
| Movie | The Check Up | The Inspector | 2005-01-21 |
| Series | But Can They Sing? | Unknown | 2005-10-30 |
| Movie | Perfect Opposites | Louis Carbonelli | 2004-02-06 |
| Movie | The Easter Egg Adventure | Terrible Timothy Takit (voice) | 2004-09-05 |
| Movie | Second Best | Elliot | 2004-01-01 |
| Series | The Tony Danza Show | Self - Guest | 2004-09-13 |
| Movie | Return to Source: The Philosophy of The Matrix | Cypher | 2004-12-07 |
| Series | Dr. Vegas | Unknown | 2004-09-24 |
| Movie | Daredevil | Ben Urich | 2003-02-14 |
| Movie | Bad Boys II | Captain Howard | 2003-07-18 |
| Movie | Beyond Hell's Kitchen: Making 'Daredevil' | 2003-07-29 | |
| Series | The Handler | Joe Renato | 2003-09-26 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Pluto Nash | Mogan | 2002-08-16 |
| Movie | Cats & Dogs | Peek (voice) | 2001-07-04 |
| Series | Good Day Live | Self | 2001-09-17 |
| Movie | The Matrix Revisited | Self - Cypher (archive footage) | 2001-11-19 |
| Movie | A Better Way to Die | Flash | 2001-09-26 |
| Movie | Silver Man | Norbert | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | Ready to Rumble | Titus Sinclair | 2000-04-07 |
| Movie | Memento | Teddy | 2000-10-11 |
| Movie | The Making of Olive, The Other Reindeer | Self | 2000-12-14 |
| Movie | Black and White | Bill King | 1999-09-04 |
| Series | SpongeBob SquarePants | Sticky Fins Whiting (voice) | 1999-05-01 |
| Movie | The Matrix | Cypher | 1999-03-31 |
| Movie | The Life Before This | Jake Maclean | 1999-09-15 |
| Series | The Sopranos | Ralph Cifaretto | 1999-01-10 |
| Movie | Taxman | Al Benjamin | 1999-09-16 |
| Movie | Olive, the Other Reindeer | Martini (voice) | 1999-12-17 |
| Movie | New Blood | Hellman | 1999-11-15 |
| Movie | Making "The Matrix" | Self | 1999-09-21 |
| Series | Roswell | Kal Langley | 1999-10-06 |
| Movie | U.S. Marshals | Renfro | 1998-03-06 |
| Movie | Hoods | Charlie Flynn | 1998-08-05 |
| Series | The Lionhearts | (voice) | 1998-09-19 |
| Series | Godzilla: The Series | Victor "Animal" Palotti | 1998-09-12 |
| Movie | Tinseltown | Arnie | 1997-01-01 |
| Movie | Top of the World | Vince Castor | 1997-05-01 |
| Series | The View | Self | 1997-08-11 |
| Movie | Pitch | Self | 1997-09-04 |
| Movie | Cigars!: The New Rage! | Self | 1996-01-01 |
| Movie | Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice | Det. Meyer Meyer | 1996-02-18 |
| Series | Arli$$ | Vic Freed | 1996-08-10 |
| Movie | Natural Enemy | Stuart | 1996-12-31 |
| Series | EZ Streets | Jimmy Murtha | 1996-10-27 |
| Movie | Bound | Caesar | 1996-09-13 |
| Series | The Outer Limits | Stan Harbinger | 1995-03-26 |
| Movie | Bad Boys | Captain Howard | 1995-04-07 |
| Movie | Congo | Eddie Ventro (Uncredited) | 1995-06-09 |
| Movie | The Immortals | Pete | 1995-10-05 |
| Movie | Steal Big Steal Little | Eddie Agopian | 1995-09-29 |
| Movie | The Last Word | Doc | 1995-08-27 |
| Movie | Robot in the Family | Jack Shamir | 1994-03-02 |
| Movie | Dangerous Heart | Barclay | 1994-02-02 |
| Movie | Teresa's Tattoo | Bruno | 1994-03-15 |
| Movie | Baby's Day Out | Norby | 1994-07-01 |
| Series | Life with Louie | Jojo Stomopolous (voice) | 1994-12-24 |
| Movie | The Spy Within | Attorney Brezner | 1994-06-10 |
| Series | Beethoven | Sparky (voice) | 1994-09-10 |
| Movie | Three of Hearts | Mickey | 1993-04-30 |
| Movie | The Fugitive | Cosmo Renfro | 1993-08-06 |
| Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest | 1993-09-13 |
| Movie | Calendar Girl | Harvey Darpinian | 1993-09-03 |
| Movie | Me and the Kid | Roy | 1993-10-22 |
| Movie | Through the Eyes of a Killer | Jerry | 1992-09-30 |
| Movie | Used People | Frank | 1992-12-16 |
| Series | Highlander: The Series | Doctor Wilder | 1992-10-03 |
| Movie | Zandalee | Gerri | 1991-05-09 |
| Movie | One Special Victory | Daniel | 1991-12-08 |
| Series | Civil Wars | Stan DeMarco | 1991-11-20 |
| Movie | The Last of the Finest | Wayne Gross | 1990-03-09 |
| Movie | Short Time | Scalese | 1990-05-04 |
| Movie | Downtown | White | 1990-01-12 |
| Movie | Backstreet Dreams | Paul (uncredited) | 1990-09-29 |
| Movie | El Diablo | Kid Durango | 1990-07-22 |
| Series | The Fanelli Boys | Dominic Fanelli | 1990-09-08 |
| Movie | Nightbreaker | Sgt. Jack Russell | 1989-03-08 |
| Series | The Simpsons | Dante Calabresi Sr. (voice) | 1989-12-17 |
| Series | Tales from the Crypt | Casino Dealer (uncredited) | 1989-06-10 |
| Movie | The In Crowd | Perry Parker | 1988-02-01 |
| Movie | Midnight Run | Eddie Moscone, Bail Bonder | 1988-07-20 |
| Movie | Rock 'N Roll Mom | Ronnie | 1988-02-07 |
| Movie | La Bamba | Bob Keane | 1987-07-24 |
| Movie | The Squeeze | Norman | 1987-07-10 |
| Movie | Destination: America | Lt. Mike Amico | 1987-04-03 |
| Movie | Scenes from the Goldmine | Manny Ricci | 1987-08-08 |
| Series | Beverly Hills Buntz | Jimmy Montaigne | 1987-11-05 |
| Movie | Amazon Women on the Moon | Sy Swerdlow (segment "Hairlooming") | 1987-09-18 |
| Movie | Empire of the Sun | Frank Demarest | 1987-12-09 |
| Movie | The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun | Self | 1987-12-30 |
| Movie | Running Scared | Snake | 1986-06-27 |
| Movie | L.A. Law: Pilot | Ralph Cavanaugh | 1986-09-15 |
| Series | L.A. Law | Ralph Cavanaugh | 1986-09-15 |
| Movie | Roger Rabbit Screen Test | Eddie Valiant (uncredited) | 1986-11-02 |
| Series | Robert Kennedy & His Times | Roy Cohn | 1985-01-27 |
| Movie | The Mean Season | Andy Porter | 1985-02-15 |
| Series | Amazing Stories | Joe | 1985-09-29 |
| Movie | The Goonies | Francis | 1985-06-07 |
| Movie | Mister Roberts | Insigna | 1984-03-18 |
| Movie | The Final Terror | Eggar | 1983-05-01 |
| Movie | Risky Business | Guido | 1983-08-05 |
| Series | Hardcastle and McCormick | Teddy Hollins | 1983-09-18 |
| Series | The Hitchhiker | Brother Charles | 1983-11-23 |
| Movie | Eddie and the Cruisers | Doc Robbins | 1983-09-23 |
| Movie | Monsignor | Pvt. Joe Musso | 1982-10-22 |
| Series | Hill Street Blues | Sonny Orsini | 1981-01-15 |
| Series | Simon & Simon | Unknown | 1981-11-24 |
| Movie | The Idolmaker | Gino Pilato | 1980-11-14 |
| Series | Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story | Ray Neal | 1980-11-05 |
| Movie | Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story | Ray Neal | 1980-11-05 |
| Series | From Here to Eternity | Pvt. Angelo Maggio | 1979-02-14 |
| Series | Hart to Hart | Unknown | 1979-09-22 |
| Movie | More Than Friends | Ralphie | 1978-10-20 |
| Series | Free Country | Unknown | 1978-06-24 |
| Series | M*A*S*H | Gerald Mullen | 1972-09-17 |