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Director, Producer, Actor
Born:
1933 in New York, NY
Biography:"Tony Mordente" was born in New York City in 1933. Trained as an actor, dancer, and singer, his first major credit was in the role of Action in "West Side Story", on which he also served as an assistant choreographer. He also had a short-lived recording career around 1960, on Roulette Records, which was hoping to capitalize on the success of "West Side Story". Mordente concentrated primarily on stage roles during the early '60s, a period in which he was based in New York, and his only screen role, apart from "West Side Story", came in 1963 with a small part in Love With the Proper Stranger. His early television appearances included two episodes of "Combat" during the series' first season, but it was his role as Genaro Planetta in "The Outer Limits" episode "The Invisibles" -- one of the most chilling in the series' output -- that showed him at the peak of his powers as an actor. Portraying Planetta,... Full Biography
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