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Nicodemo Antonio Massimo Mancuso (born May 29, 1948) is an Italian-Canadian actor, artist, playwright, and director. Beginning his career as a stage actor, he had his breakthrough role in the 1981 drama Ticket to Heaven , for which he won the Genie Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor .
Mancuso was canceled at the end of the season. However, selected episodes were rerun by NBC as part of its summer prime time lineup in 1993. Loggia earned an Emmy nomination as outstanding lead actor in a dramatic series for his performance. [1] "Nick Mancuso" is also a name shared by a real-life actor (NBC series Stingray, 1985–1987).
O'Brien appoints only two agents, Nick Mancuso (Loggia), a cynical, bitter veteran who is close to retirement, and Dave Ross (Lance Guest), an idealistic but inexperienced young agent, to investigate the Martinez assassination. Ross is delighted with the assignment, but Mancuso explains that it's a setup because if the bureau was serious about ...
Stingray is an American drama television series created and produced by Stephen J. Cannell that ran in 23 episodes on NBC from July 14, 1985, to May 8, 1987. It starred Nick Mancuso, who plays the mysterious character known only as Ray, whose trademark is a black 1965 Corvette Sting Ray.
Ticket to Heaven is a 1981 Canadian drama film directed by Ralph L. Thomas and starring Nick Mancuso, Saul Rubinek, Meg Foster, Kim Cattrall, and R.H. Thomson.The plot concerns the recruiting of a man into a group portrayed to be a religious cult, and his life in the group until forcibly extracted by his family and friends.
Mancuso spent three days during post-production recording dialogue for the character, describing the experience as being "very avant-garde", with Clark encouraging him to improvise with the character's voice. [32] During some of these sessions, Mancuso stood on his head to compress his thorax, making his voice sound more raspy and demented.
The film follows Holden Downs (Nick Mancuso), a powerful, hot-tempered workaholic real estate developer struggling with an environmental injunction against a property that he plans to build, which threatens to halt construction of his dream development.
Angelo Mancuso in the novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) by author John Kennedy Toole; Bart Mancuso, played by Scott Glenn in the film The Hunt for Red October (1990); Nick Mancuso, played by Robert Loggia in the television miniseries Favorite Son (1988) and the television crime series Mancuso, F.B.I. (1989)