Television and Film
Albano played a role in the Wise Guys (1986) film along Danny DeVito and also as the video game character Mario, Nintendo's mascot, in the live-action segments and the voice in the animated segments of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, which was a TV series made based upon the classic Nintendo hit Super Mario Bros. games. He also had roles in the TV series 227, Hey Dude, and Miami Vice and the 1992 film Stay Tuned, and had recurring appearances on the game show Hollywood Squares.
Lou Albano also played a bad guy spinoff of himself as the character "Captain Lou Morano", along with Dirk Benedict and Roddy Piper in the 1986 movie Body Slam. Other wrestling greats like Ric Flair, Freddie Blassie, and Bruno Sammartino also made cameo appearances in the film.
He also played the role of the father in Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", "Goonies R' Good Enough" and "She Bop" music videos, as well as a cook in the "Time After Time" music video.
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