Greg Antonacci

{{Short description|American actor, director, and producer (1947–2017)}}

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| caption = Greg Antonacci on Boardwalk Empire

| birth_name = Gregory Gerald Antonacci

| birth_date = {{birth date|1947|2|2|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City

| death_date = {{death date and age|2017|09|20|1947|2|2}}

| death_place = Massapequa, New York, U.S.

| occupation = Television actor, director, producer, writer

| years_active = 1970–2017

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{{marriage|Annie Potts
|1978|1980|end=div}}
{{marriage|Lynda Costanzo|1981}}

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Gregory Gerald Antonacci (February 2, 1947 – September 20, 2017) was an American television actor, director, producer, and writer. He portrayed Johnny Torrio in Boardwalk Empire in every season, from 2010 to 2014,{{cite news|title='Boardwalk Empire' recap: Nucky goes on offense in mob war|url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-boardwalk-empire-recap-nucky-goes-on-offense-in-mob-war-20140914-story.html|access-date=14 December 2017|agency=The Los Angeles Times|date=September 14, 2014}} and Phil Leotardo's right-hand man Butch DeConcini in The Sopranos from 2006 to the series finale in 2007.{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/09/14/551047977/actor-frank-vincent-who-portrayed-mobsters-in-goodfellas-and-the-sopranos-dies|title=Actor Frank Vincent, Who Portrayed Mobsters in 'Goodfellas' and 'The Sopranos,' Dies|website=NPR|access-date=14 December 2017}}

Early life and career

Antonacci was born in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. As a director, producer, and writer, he worked on a number of television series, including Busting Loose, Brothers, The Tortellis, Perfect Strangers, The Royal Family, The John Larroquette Show, Herman's Head, It's a Living, Soap, and other series.{{cite web|url=https://tv.yahoo.com/contributor/128058/credits;_ylt=AvxxCGbpOU0vgoK2l06ja5y.o9EF|title=Greg Antonacci credits|publisher=Yahoo! TV|access-date=August 26, 2011}}

As an actor, he had roles in The Rockford Files, as Vinnie Morabito on Busting Loose, Tony Manucci on Makin' It, Butch DeConcini on The Sopranos, and Johnny Torrio on Boardwalk Empire.{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/118854/Greg-Antonacci/biography |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121201120841/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/118854/Greg-Antonacci/biography |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 1, 2012 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2012 |title=Greg Antonacci Movies & TV|access-date=August 26, 2011}} In 1976, he played the role of Hector in "A Nun's Story" and "Good Time Girls" during season two of Laverne & Shirley. He made a cameo appearance as a mobster in the 2013 film The Family.

Antonacci was also a playwright, theatrical actor, and director, participating in multiple productions and roles at the La MaMa Experimental Theater Club in the East Village throughout the early through mid-1970s.La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190117070257/https://catalog.lamama.org/Detail/Entities/2576 "Individual: Greg Antonacci." Accessed January 16, 2019.] He wrote and performed in the 1971 Off-Off-Broadway musical "Dance Wi' Me (or, The Fatal Twitch)," which was directed by Joel Zwick and produced at La MaMa. This play was produced again at La MaMa in 1974, and then renamed and re-staged as the Broadway musical "Dance With Me," opening January 23, 1975 at the Mayfair Theatre in New York City.La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. [https://web.archive.org/web/20180711031643/https://catalog.lamama.org/Detail/Occurrences/823 "Work: Dance Wi' Me (or, The Fatal Twitch)"]. Accessed January 16, 2019.

Personal life and death

Antonacci died at the age of 70 in Massapequa, New York, on September 20, 2017.{{cite web|title=Gregory G. Antonacci|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/gregory-antonacci-obituary?pid=186716897&view=guestbook|website=Legacy.com| date=20 September 2017 |access-date=14 December 2017}} His death occurred exactly one week after that of Frank Vincent, who played Phil Leotardo, Butch DeConcini's boss, on The Sopranos.{{Citation needed |date=June 2024}}

Filmography

Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes
class="wikitable"
1972	Summer Soldiers	Miguel
1974	The Rehearsal
2006-2007	The Sopranos	Butch DeConcini
2013	The Family	NY Mobster	Uncredited
2010-2014	Boardwalk Empire	Johnny Torrio

References

External links

{{IMDb name|0031246|Greg Antonacci}}
{{YouTube|F2DtsGpCqc0|Greg Antonacci (Johnny Torrio) in HBO's 'Boardwalk Empire' at the Manhattan premiere (September 15, 2010)}}
[http://catalog.lamama.org/index.php/Detail/Entity/Show/entity_id/2576 Greg Antonacci's page on La MaMa Archives Digital Collections]

Category:1947 births

Category:2017 deaths

Category:20th-century American dramatists and playwrights

Category:20th-century American male actors

Category:20th-century American male writers

Category:20th-century American screenwriters

Category:21st-century American dramatists and playwrights

Category:21st-century American male actors

Category:21st-century American male writers

Category:21st-century American screenwriters

Category:American male dramatists and playwrights

Category:American male screenwriters