Vincent Riotta
Birthday: Born in 1959-01-03 in London, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
Vincenzo Ricotta is a British stage and film actor professionally known as Vincent Riotta.
TV Credits
Zen
Character: Giorgio de Angelis
Zen is a British television mini series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the BBC, co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology series, Mediaset and ZDF. It stars Rufus Sewell and Caterina Murino and is based on the Aurelio Zen detective novels by Michael Dibdin. The series was filmed on location in Italy, but the dialogue is in English. The series, which comprises three 90-minute films, was broadcast in the United Kingdom on Sunday evenings from 2 January 2011 on BBC One. The thr...
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Mario Ascanio
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions....
New Tricks
Character:
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes....
Hustle
Character: Carlo Bachini
A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings....
Monk
Character: Vladimir Kazinsky
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways....
Caruso, la voce dell’amore
Character: Stitch
Caruso, the voice of love is an Italian television miniserie of 2012, inspired by Enrico Caruso, broadcast on Rai 1 on 23 and 24 September 2012. It was produced by Claudia Mori, for Hi Guys. The story focuses on contrasting relationships between Enrico Caruso and the two Florentine sisters Rina and Ada Giachetti-from which he had two children, Rodolfo and Enrico Jr. - And on marriage with the young American Dorothy Benjamin, from which Caruso had his daughter Gloria. (Translated from Italian, ...
Per Elisa - Il caso Claps
Character: Phil James
Reconstruction of one of the most shocking crime news events in recent decades: the murders of Elisa Claps and Heather Barnett by Danilo Restivo. The story begins on 12 September 1993 and takes place over a period of about twenty years between Potenza and the English coast of Bournemouth....
Pie in the Sky
Character: Chief Supt. Barry Simmonds
Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first broadcast in five series on BBC1 between 13 March 1994 and 17 August 1997 as well as being syndicated on other channels in other countries, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series departs slightly from other police dramas in that the protagonist, Henry Crabbe, while still being an on-duty policeman, is also the head chef of the tit...
Il capo dei capi
Character: Tommaso Buscetta
The story of Salvatore Riina, a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily....
A.D.
Character: Stephanus
A 12 hours miniseries adapted from Anthony Burgess's novel The Kingdom of the Wicked....
Babylon 5
Character: Bryce
Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, its goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Wor...
A Touch of Frost
Character: Philip Townsend
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch....
Giovanni Falcone - L'uomo che sfidò Cosa Nostra
Character: Rudolph Giuliani
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Don Matteo
Character: Giorgio Pacari
Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help....
Blood & Treasure
Character: Father Giancana
An antiquities expert teams up with an art thief to catch a terrorist who funds his attacks using stolen artifacts....
Here We Go
Character: Alf
Family life with no filter. The Jessops navigate life's everyday challenges - from changing jobs to kidnapping dogs....
JAG
Character: Major Kassim
Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related crimes. He works closely with Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie, and together they do what needs to be done to find the truth....
JAG
Character: Ambassador Moshak
Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related crimes. He works closely with Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie, and together they do what needs to be done to find the truth....
JAG
Character: Temir
Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related crimes. He works closely with Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie, and together they do what needs to be done to find the truth....
Squadra antimafia – Palermo oggi
Character: Michelangelo Lo Bianco alias "Mickey"
Fighting a modern, fragmented and brutal Mafia, the Sicilian Anti-Mafia Squad seeks to crush the criminal network that holds a death grip on the region. Sophisticated surveillance helps, unless the enemy lies within....
Moses
Character: Midan
An ordinary man is called upon by God to do the impossible in this lovingly told production of the Old Testament story. When the Pharaoh of Egypt begins to tighten the noose on his Jewish slaves, Moses leads them to freedom....
NewsRadio
Character: Photographer
The office politics and interpersonal relationships among the staff of WNYX NewsRadio, New York's #2 news radio station....
Shadow of the Noose
Character: Herbert Bennett
Drama centering on the cases of the celebrated London barrister of the Victorian era, Edward Marshall Hall....
Movie Credits
Abraham
Character: König Arjoch
Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mankind... A man of great faith, Abraham continues to believe in God even when He seems to have abandoned him....
Moses
Character: Midan
When Pharaoh Rameses II begins to tighten the noose on his Jewish slaves, Israelite Moses, called upon by God, leads his people to freedom....
Under the Tuscan Sun
Character: Martini
After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together starting with the villa and finds that life sometimes has unexpected ways of giving her everything she wanted....
Revolver
Character: Benny
Hotshot gambler Jake Green is long on bravado and seriously short of common sense. Rarely is he allowed in any casino because he's a bona fide winner and, in fact, has taken so much money over the years that he's the sole client of his accountant elder brother, Billy. Invited to a private game, Jake is in fear of losing his life....
Anemos
Character:
Anemos is a conceptual film in which, following the call to spirituality, we go through history on a trip from Magna Grecia to the Aeolian Islands, from the desert to the Cathar countries, observing the wind that rushes towards the Mediterranean. We follow it as it moves between the natural and the artificial, from rocky hermitages to overcrowded contemporary cities, to the stratosphere where we meet Gaia, the creature that breathes cosmic air and feeds on the Universe. The winds are her circula...
Unstoppable
Character: Miller
The deranged military and former CIA agent Dean Cage is in a rehab program, trying to forget the traumatic loss of his best friend Scott in Bosnia. When he dates with his girl-friend and Scott's sister, Detective Amy Knight, in a dinning restaurant, he is mistakenly taken as being the CIA agent that is investigating the robbery of the military experiment EX by a man called Sullivan. He is injected with the drug and abducted by the thieves. Amy has six hours to find the also stolen antidote and s...
Shadow Man
Character: Harry
An intelligence operative discovers that no one is what they seem in the shadowy world of espionage....
Love in the Villa
Character: Carlo Caruso
A young woman takes a trip to romantic Verona, Italy, after a breakup, only to find that the villa she reserved was double-booked, and she'll have to share her vacation with a cynical British man....
Lupo bianco
Character: Console Stati Uniti
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Running Late
Character: Messenger
Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at his office that his wife needs to see him urgently - a matter of life and death - his life is irreversibly altered. And so the frantic search begins for George Grant 's truth - and his wife....
Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
Character: Hanno
It is 200 years before the birth of Christ and Rome is the new superpower of the ancient world. She believes she is invincible - but one man is destined to change that. He is a man bound by oath to avenge the wrongs inflicted on his home and, in pursuit of revenge, he will stop at nothing. Hannibal explores the man behind the myth, revealing what drove the 26-year-old to mastermind one of the most audacious military moves in history. With 40,000 soldiers and 37 elephants, he marched 1,500 miles ...
Texas '46
Character: prigioniero italiano
Based on a true story its the untold story of Italian World War II POW"S in Jan 1946. Luca Zingaretti stars as one of over 50,000 Italian Prisoners of War detained at POW camps in the U.S. Roy Schneider stars as Colonel Gartner, the Commander of the camp. Things take a turn for the worse when Manin is brought back from his most recent escape by a patrol force, only to realize that the camp has been evacuated while he was gone. Gartner is forced to keep Manin at the camp until another patrol forc...
Belly of the Beast
Character: Fitch McQuaid
Jake and Sunti go to meet Mongkol, the leader of the Abu Karaf. Mongkol confirms that ever since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Jantapan has worked to corner the narcotics and arms markets. Jake must engage in a battle that will put both his physical and spiritual powers to the ultimate test....
Leon The Pig Farmer
Character: Elliot Cohen
An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that his is the product of artificial insemination....
Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy
Character: Guiliano Mignini
Based on the events surrounding the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.Hayden Panettiere (Heroes) and Marcia Gay Harden (Academy Award winner for Pollock) star in the Lifetime Original Movie Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy based on the international headline-grabbing story of the now infamous American exchange student accused by Italian authorities of brutally killing her roommate. Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy poses the question of whether Knox (Panettiere), the Seattle ho...
Falling Sky
Character: Mr. Hanes
Pulling up stakes for a fresh start in Las Vegas, aspiring singer Reese and daughter Emily are looking forward to the future with optimism. But mom's problem drinking and her struggles to pay the bills threaten the pair's plans for a better life. Frequently cast in the role of mothering her own mother, teenage Emily must learn to hold on to hope in this poignant coming-of-age drama....
Body Contact
Character: Tony Zulu (as Vincenzo Ricotta)
In the future, around Tottenham and Hackney, taxi driver Smiley comes to the assistance of the beautiful Dominique Renoir, who's on the run from her violent Mafia boyfriend....
Submerged
Character: Harold Preble
A moment by moment account of the sinking and rescue of the crew of the submarine USS Squalus which was the first rescue of living crew on a submarine....
Goffredo e l'Italia chiamò
Character: Ammiraglio Giorgio Mameli
The film tells the life of the young Genoese poet and patriot Goffredo Mameli, who died in battle in Rome at the age of 21, in 1849. In addition to being one of the main exponents of the Risorgimento....
Book Club: The Next Chapter
Character: Chef Gianni
Four best friends take their book club to Italy for the fun girls' trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure....
Giovanni Falcone - L'uomo che sfidò Cosa Nostra
Character: Rudolph Giuliani
TV-Movie on the life and accomplishments of Giovanni Falcone, the legendary Sicilian judge who boldly opposed the Mafia...
Good Vibes
Character:
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Rush
Character: Lauda's Mechanic
In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it all....
Fade to Black
Character: Alberto Cava
Still reeling from the painful breakup of his marriage to screen siren Rita Hayworth, filmmaker Orson Welles makes his way to Rome, where he gets pulled into a tangled political plot involving murder and mysterious motives. A beautiful actress proves a tempting distraction. But if they want to stay alive, Welles and his young Italian driver need to stay focused....
Rocketry: The Nambi Effect
Character: Luigi Crocco
The story of the great Indian rocket scientist, Shri Nambi Narayanan's life, a true patriot, who was turned into a villain in the blink of an eye after being falsely accused of treason....
Il meglio di te
Character:
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Character: Quartermaster
When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander....
Heaven
Character: Chief Guard
Cate Blanchett stars as Philippa, a British teacher living in Turin, Italy, who has seen many friends, including her husband, fall victim to drug overdoses. Philippa has repeatedly contacted the police with information about Turin's biggest drug dealer but, complicit in his dealings, they have completely ignored her. So Philippa decides to dole out her own form of justice with a homemade bomb -- setting her off on a journey from young widow to fugitive on the run....
TÁR
Character: Cory Berg
As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present....
Pope John Paul II
Character: Teodor Krawick
Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic world....
Mya - Un sogno da vivere
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Nine
Character: Luigi
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother....
L'ultimo Dei Corleonesi
Character: Vintaloro
The rise and fall of sicilian most important mafia bosses after WWII: Luciano Liggio, Totò Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, all from Corleone. Their friendship and struggle against italian state....
The Listening
Character: Frank Vaughan
Estranged by the degree of corporate influence within the largest U.S. listening station in the world, an aging NSA officer defects and mounts a clandestine counter-listening station high in the Italian alps....
Third Person
Character: Gerry
An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship....
I racconti della domenica
Character:
It follows Francesco Giuffrida, an honest Sicilian politician from childhood to his disappearance....
Estomago 2: The Cookfather
Character: Dom Galante
Sequel to the award-winning 2007 film, Stomach 2 tells the tasty and bloody dispute between a faction leader and an Italian boss for control of the prison where they are held and the privilege of being served by the talented cook Raimundo Nonato...
The Dark Knight
Character: Cop at 250 52nd St.
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker....
Hanna's War
Character: Yoel (as Vincenzo Ricotta)
Hanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who would become Israel's "Joan of Arc". As a young person, she fled Nazi-occupied Hungary for Palestine, where she was recruited and trained by the British to serve as a commando. After completing her training in Britain, she parachutes into Yugoslavia with a commando team to establish escape routes across the Hungarian-Yugoslavian border for downed British pilots. Her attempts to save Hungarian Jews in Na...
Power and Lovers
Character: Nicola
Two brothers start to bicker and battle when Nick, an aggressive businessman, finds himself thwarted by a group of scientists, headed by his brother Tony. Seems the scientists stand in the way of big profits for Nick. It's a dramatic duel between two opposite siblings who have more in common than they think -- including the sexy, strong women in their lives....
Ballad of the Nightingale
Character: Michael Wynn-Booth
A down-on-her luck prostitute embarks on a wild adventure that puts her in contact with the Mafia....
Black Butterfly
Character: Lt Carcano
Paul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light....
Natale a Londra - Dio salvi la Regina
Character: Mike The Hammer
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55 Steps
Character: James Adams
The inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they’re in a hospital, and Colette Hughes, the lawyer appointed to her case....
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
Character: Valery Mashenko
True story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl....
No Problem
Character: Anselmo Lorenzi
A war correspondent ventures into a territory being fought over by various warring factions. To enhance his reputation as a journalist, he fabricates news stories, and these manipulations of truth will be his undoing....
7 Days in Entebbe
Character: Dan Shomron
In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane en route from Tel Aviv to Paris and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda. With 248 passengers on board, one of the most daring rescue missions ever is set in motion....
Dolce Fine Giornata
Character: Lodovici
In Tuscany, Maria's stable family life begins to erode as her relationship with a young immigrant develops against a backdrop of terrorism and eroding democracy....
The Chinese Widow
Character: Jimmy Doolittle
It’s 1941 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has destroyed America’s morale. The US President Franklin D. Roosevelt then decides to risk it all by bombing Tokyo and raise more hope for his citizens. After completing its mission, a unit of the US Air Force is forced to make an emergency landing in China. Its commander Jack Turner (Emilie Hirsch) barely survives but gets rescued by Ying (Crystal Liu), a local widow who will stop at nothing to hide him from the Japanese occupant....
Rome in Love
Character: Paolo Petruzzi
An unknown actress lands the role of a lifetime in Rome. Paired with an American journalist writing a profile, she will discover surprises about love and life in the eternal city....
The Listening
Character: Vaughan
Estranged by the degree of corporate influence within the largest U.S. listening station in the world, an aging NSA officer defects and mounts a clandestine counter-listening station high in the Italian alps....
Father Hope
Character: Aldo Torrisi
Don Vasari is an anti-conformist priest. For this reason he is transferred to a juvenile prison in a small town in the southern of Italy. Nino, a sixteen year old inmate, is accused of murder but Don Vasari does not believe his guilt and he starts a courageous investigation to help him....
At War for Love
Character: Maggiore Maone
It's 1943 and World War II is raging in Europe. In New York, Arturo and Flora the daughter of a restaurant owner are in love, but she is promised in marriage to the son of a Mafia boss. There is a way around this, but to be able to marry Flora, Arturo needs to get permission from her father, who lives in a village in Sicily. Arturo doesn't have any money, so the only way he can get to Sicily is to enlist in the U.S. Army, which is preparing for a landing on the island....
Inferno
Character: Death Mask Guard
After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot....
In Love and War
Character: Italian Officer (as Vincenzo Ricotta)
After teenage ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway takes shrapnel in the leg during World War I, he falls in love with Agnes von Kurowsky, a beautiful older nurse at the hospital where he's sent to recover. Their affair slowly blossoms, until Hemingway boldly asks Agnes to be his wife and journey to America with him....
Divorzio a Las Vegas
Character: Judge pistons
Lorenzo known as Ghandi and Elena met at 18 during a vacation through Nevada and ended up doing the classic madness: they got married in Las Vegas. A few hours later everyone was going their own way, putting the incident behind them (or at least that's what Elena thinks). Twenty years later Elena is about to marry a very rich and brilliant man, but her best friend Sara, a lawyer, informs her that, being technically still married to Lorenzo, she must first dissolve that bond or she will be accuse...
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Character: CID Chief Detective
Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions....
The Two Popes
Character: Driver
Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church....
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
Character: Ricardo del Monte
Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary of Rembrandt and, indeed, more celebrated during his life, Goltzius seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books. In return, he promises him an extraordinary book of pictures of illustrating the Old Testament’s biblical stories. Erotic tales of Lot and his daughters, David and Bathsheba, Sams...
The Party
Character: Richard Maine (as Vincenzo Ricotta)
10 May 1968. In Paris the barricades are about to burst into flames as students and police clash. In London the fashionable Left are having a dialogue....
Car Trouble
Character: Kevin (as Vincenzo Riccota)
In the throes of a midlife crisis, a man buys a new Jaguar, and it immediately becomes his new love. What he doesn't know is that his wife is as attracted to the Jaguar salesman as he is to the car....
House of Gucci
Character: Fernando Reggiani
When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately… murder....
Chiara e Francesco
Character: Favarone
Italy, XIII century. The story of friendship between two young people who dedicated their lives to God and others: St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi. Children of the bourgeoisie and the nobility, respectively, gave up their lives accommodated by a life of sacrifice, humility and proselytizing ......
Harem
Character: Salim
A young British woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheikh and held captive in his harem. At first she frantically tries to escape, but as they slowly get to know and appreciate each other the difference between captor and captive dissolves....