Faustino "Doc" Santoro
- Played by: Daniel P. Conte
- Appears in: "Soprano Home Movies," "Stage 5," "Remember When"
Aging Mustache Pete mobster with a full head of white combed back hair. He is a veteran made man of the Lupertazzi crime family. He had the enmity of the rest of the family for his actions while Phil Leotardo was recovering from his heart attack. Ordered a hit on Gerry Torciano after the airing of a television show discussing who would take over the Lupertazzi crime family after Johnny Sack was sent to prison. As Gerry was the perceived successor to Phil Leotardo, Doc had him murdered while he ate dinner with Silvio Dante. During a sit-down in a restaurant, Doc humiliates Phil by taking food from his plate, even as Phil acknowledges Doc as the head of the family. Phil avenges his long-felt humiliations and has Doc murdered, along with his bodyguard outside a massage parlor in New York City, cementing his own claim to be the boss.
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Famous quotes containing the word doc:
“That’s a sucker game, Doc. There’s probably fifty fellows around town just waitin’ to see you get liquored up, so they can fill ya full of holes. Build themselves up a great reputation—the man that killed Doc Holliday.”
—Samuel G. Engel (1904–1984)