List of Italian American Actors - 1930s

1930s

• Frank Adonis (born 1935) – long term character actor
• Danny Aiello (born 1933) film/television actor
• Alan Alda (born 1936) actor, writer, director and political activist. Alda is of Italian and Irish descent.
• Frankie Avalon (Avallone) (born 1939) actor and teen idol in the 1950s and early 1960s
• Anne Bancroft (Italiano) (1931–2005) Academy Award-winning actress
• Robert Blake (Gubitosi) (born 1933) film actor, perhaps most famous for starring in the U.S. television series Baretta, and for being found not guilty of the murder of wife Bonnie Lee Bakley
• Joseph Bologna (born 1934) film/television actor
• Sonny Bono (1935–1998) son of Sicilian parents- actor and pop singer (Airplane II)
• Victor Buono (1938–1982) Italian father and German mother – film and television actor, poet
• Carmine Caridi (born 1934) film actor (The Godfather Part III)
• Richard S. Castellano (1933–1988) film actor (The Godfather)
• John Cazale (1935–1978) film actor (The Godfather)
• Dominic Chianese (born 1931) television actor (The Sopranos)
• Sam Coppola (born 1935) film/television actor
• Bobby Darin (Cassoto) (1936–1973) actor, singer and one of the most popular rock and roll American teen idols of the 1950s
• James Darren (Ercolani) (born 1936) television and film actor, television director, and singer
• Dom DeLuise (1933–2009) comic actor
• Connie Francis (Franconero) (born 1938) actress and pop singer, known for her 1957 hit "Who's Sorry Now?"
• Ben Gazzara (1930–2012) son of Sicilian parents film/television actor
• Morgana King (born 1930) (Maria Grazia Morgana Messina DeBerardini) daughter of Sicilian parents- film actress (The Godfather)
• Frank Langella (born 1938) stage, film and television actor
• Richard Libertini (born 1933) an American stage, film and television actor known for playing numerous character roles (Popeye)
• Robert Loggia (born 1930) son of Sicilian parents- film actor
• Garry Marshall (Marsciarelli) (born 1934) Italian-American father and part Scottish mother—actor, director, and writer- brother of Penny Marshall
• Sal Mineo (1939–1976) son of Sicilian parents- actor and theater director, famous for his Academy Award-nominated performance opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause
• Paula Prentiss (Ragusa) (born 1938) film actress
• Alex Rocco (Petricone) (born 1936) film actor (The Godfather)
• Reni Santoni (born 1939) 50% Italian, 25% French and 25% Spanish- film actor (Dirty Harry)
• John Saxon (Orrico) (born 1936) film actor
• Paul Sorvino (born 1939) actor, father of Mira Sorvino
• Joe Spinell (Spagnulo) (1936–1989) film actor (The Godfather II)
• Connie Stevens (Ingolia) (born 1938) Italian father and Irish mother – actress and singer
• Frankie Valli (Castelluccio) (born 1934) singer and actor (The Sopranos)
• Frank Vincent (Gattuso) (born 1939) film/television actor (The Sopranos)
• Joe Viterelli (1937–2004) film actor (Shallow Hal)
• Brenda Vaccaro (born 1939) T.V. and movie actress