Dennis Farina

Q: Did Dennis Farina win any awards during his career?

While Dennis Farina did not win an Academy Award, he received nominations for various awards, including the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Q: What was Dennis Farina's first film?

Dennis Farina's first film was 'The Last Rites of Ransom Pride', released in 2009, although he appeared in smaller roles prior to that.

Q: What is Dennis Farina's estimated net worth?

Dennis Farina's estimated net worth was around $8 million at the time of his passing.

Q: How did Dennis Farina start his acting career?

Dennis Farina started his acting career after working as a police officer in Chicago, where he was encouraged to pursue acting while participating in a theater group.

Q: What genres did Dennis Farina typically act in?

Dennis Farina acted in a variety of genres, including crime dramas, comedies, and thrillers, showcasing his range as an actor.

Q: What was Dennis Farina's last film?

Dennis Farina's last film was 'Unsolved Mysteries: Behind the Legacy', released in 2023 before his passing.

Q: What was Dennis Farina known for in his acting style?

Dennis Farina was known for his strong presence, distinctive voice, and ability to portray both serious and comedic characters.

Known for

Snatch (2017)

IMDb 6.9 / 10

2017 / Drama / 43mins

A group of up-and-coming hustlers stumble upon a truckload of stolen gold bullion and are suddenly thrust into the high-stakes world of organized crime.

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

IMDb 8.6 / 10

1998 / Drama, War / 169 min

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain...

Law & Order (1990–2010)

IMDb 7.8 / 10

1990–2010 / Crime, Drama / 45 min

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken...

Name

Dennis Farina

Height

5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)

Born

29 February 1944, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Spouses

Patricia Farina (1970–1980)

Children

3 children: Dennis Farina Jr., Michael Farina, and Amy Farina

Parents

Josephine Farina, and a father whose name is not widely reported

Estimated Net Worth

$8 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2014	Movie Lucky Stiff An English shoe salesman inherits 6 million dollars from a recently deceased uncle he has never met before, on the...	Luigi	TMDB 4.4 / 10
2014	Movie Authors Anonymous When a dysfunctional group of unpublished writers accept Hannah into their fold, the last thing they expect is her overnight...	John K. Butzin	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2012	TV Luck A drama set in the world of horse racing focusing on lives of owners, jockeys, trainers and gamblers who are...	Gus Demitriou	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2011	Movie The Last Rites of Joe May Now in his sixties, Joe is released from the hospital after a long battle with pneumonia and forced to confront...	Joe May	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2011	TV New Girl Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with...	Walt Miller	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2011	TV The Looney Tunes Show Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the rest of the “Looney Tunes” characters are back with more adventures for a new...	Frank Russo (voice)	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2010	Movie Knucklehead A fight promoter deeply in debt to his crooked rival and desperate for a new fighter catches a break when...	Memphis Earl	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2008	Movie Bottle Shock Paris-based wine expert Steven Spurrier heads to California in search of cheap wine that he can use for a blind...	Maurice Cantavale	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2008	Movie What Happens in Vegas During a wild vacation in Las Vegas, career woman Joy McNally and playboy Jack Fuller come to the sober realization...	Richard Banger	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2007	Movie Bagboy Bagboy is the "from bags to riches" story of a lowly grocery store clerk who endeavors to win the international...	Marty	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2007	Movie The Grand The Grand is in the tradition of improvisational comedies like Best In Show and This Is Spinal Tap. The story...	L.B.J. Deuce Fairbanks	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2007	Movie Purple Violets Patti Petalson is a promising writer, but her marriage and conventional job keep her from her dream. She longs to...	Gilmore	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2007	Movie You Kill Me While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in...	Edward O'Leary	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2006	Movie Wait 'Til Next Year: The Saga of the Chicago Cubs Using the frame of opening day, 2006, this documentary examines the Cubs' 100 years without a World Series title. Between...	Narrator	Not rated
2005	TV Empire Falls The humorous, poignant story of a declining New England town and its inhabitants, whose lives are deeply rooted in and...	Walt Comeau	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2005	TV Law & Order: Trial by Jury The inner workings of the judicial system, beginning with the arraignment, and continuing through the prosecutors' complicated process of building...	Joe Fontana	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2005	Movie The Making of 'Heat' Behind the scenes documentary on the classic Michael Mann heist film.	Self	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2004	Movie Paparazzi A rising Hollywood actor decides to take personal revenge against a group of four persistent photographers to make them pay...	Detective Burton	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2004	Movie This Old Cub Jeff Santo explores the life and career of his father, Chicago Cub great Ron Santo.	Himself	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2004	TV Justice League Unlimited The galaxy's most powerful superheroes return to battle the allied villains and criminal plots that endanger the universe.	Wildcat (voice)	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2002	TV In-Laws In-Laws is an American situation comedy that aired on NBC from September 2002 until January 2003. Newlyweds Matt and Alex...	Victor Pellet	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2002	Movie Stealing Harvard John and his girlfriend have vowed to marry once they save $30,000 for their dream house. But the minute they...	Mr. Warner	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2002	Movie Big Trouble The story of how a mysterious suitcase brings together, and changes, the lives of a divorced dad, an unhappy housewife,...	Henry Desalvo	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2001	Movie Sidewalks of New York The film follows the marital and dating lives of three men and three women who unknowingly form a tangled web...	Carpo	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2001	TV Dinner for Five Dinner for Five is a television program in which actor/filmmaker Jon Favreau and a revolving guest list of celebrities eat,...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2001	Movie Making 'Snatch' The making of Guy Ritchie's 'Snatch'.	Self	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2000	Movie Snatch Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookies, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewellers fight to track down a...	Avi	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2000	Movie Bad Seed Preston Tylk is an ordinary guy living in Seattle. When he discovers that his beloved wife, Emily, is having an...	Dick Muller	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2000	Movie Reindeer Games After assuming his dead cellmate's identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the reluctant participant in a...	Jack Banks	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1999	TV The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn Craig Kilborn hosted this zany talk show, which followed David Letterman's show, from 1999 until 2004. Kilborn left The Daily...	Self	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1999	Movie The Mod Squad Three youthful delinquents escape conviction for their crimes by teaming with the LAPD.	Captain Adam Greer	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1999	TV Family Guy Sick, twisted, politically incorrect and Freakin' Sweet animated series featuring the adventures of the dysfunctional Griffin family. Bumbling Peter and...	Dennis Farina (voice)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1998	TV Buddy Faro Buddy Faro was the best private detective in the business, until he disappeared in 1978 after a case went bad....	Buddy Faro	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1998	Movie Saving Private Ryan As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind...	Lieutenant Colonel Anderson	TMDB 8.2 / 10
1998	Movie Out of Sight Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco...	Marshall Sisco	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1997	Movie Bella Mafia Following the brutal murder of her husband and male kin, Sophia unites with her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law, in a fierce...	Don Roberto Luciano	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1997	Movie That Old Feeling A bride's divorced parents find their old feelings for each other during the wedding reception and over the course of...	Dan De Mora	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1996	Movie Eddie Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The...	John Bailey	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1995	Movie Get Shorty Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent to L.A. to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a...	Ray 'Bones' Barboni	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1995	Movie Out of Annie's Past Annie's got a secret past she's eager to hide from her husband and her family. An iconclastic bounty hunter blackmails...	Charlie Ingle	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1995	Movie Bonanza: Under Attack After a rogue band of Pinkerton detectives led by ruthless Charley Siringo bushwhacks reformed outlaw Frank James, he seeks sanctuary...	Charley Siringo	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1994	Movie Little Big League When the owner of the Minnesota Twins passes away, he bequeaths the team to his preteen grandson. The newly minted...	George O'Farrell	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1994	Movie The Corpse Had a Familiar Face The Corpse had a Familiar Face is a 1994 American TV-Movie with Elizabeth Montgomery, playing Edna Buchanan, a Miami's criminal...	Detective Harry Lindstrom	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1994	Movie One Woman's Courage Because Grace's husband Craig is having an affair she starts drinking. One night Grace witnesses a man attacking a girl;...	Craig McKenna	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1993	Movie A Stranger in the Mirror A naive young woman arrives in Hollywood to become a star, but after she gets drugged and raped during a...	Unknown character	TMDB 3.5 / 10
1993	Movie Striking Distance Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes...	Nick Detillo	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1993	Movie Romeo Is Bleeding A corrupt cop gets in over his head when he tries to assassinate a beautiful Russian hit-woman.	Nick Gazzara (uncredited)	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1993	Movie Another Stakeout A pair of immature detectives are joined by a pesky assistant district attorney in staking out a lakeside home where...	Brian O'Hara	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1993	Movie The Disappearance of Nora A beautiful woman is found stranded in the desert with no recollection of who she is or how she got...	Denton	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1992	Movie Mac Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli is the eldest of three brothers in 1950s Queens. Mac is a construction builder, a trade he...	Mr. Stunder	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1992	Movie Street Crimes When two cops start a gym to help keep kids out of the drug trade, the local crime lord schemes...	Brian	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1992	Movie The American Gangster They fixed the World Series. They built Las Vegas. They terrorized America with their vicious murders and fearless robberies. They...	Narrator	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1992	TV Cruel Doubt A college student and two friends are accused of murdering one's stepfather and injuring his mother whom refuses to believe...	Tom Brereton	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1992	Movie We're Talkin' Serious Money When a pair of misfits loses a New York mobster's money, they flee to Los Angeles, where a compromising video...	Sal	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1992	TV Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel A D.E.A. Agent goes to Columbia to take on the Cartel. He learns that the Cartel is not above killing...	Mike Cerone	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1992	Movie Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel This follow-up to "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" chronicles the fact-based fight by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the...	Mike Cerone	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1991	Movie Perfect Crimes True stories about individuals seeking to commit a perfect crime.	Armand Zaro	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1990	Movie Havana During the revolution, a high-stakes gambler arrives in Cuba seeking to win big in poker games. Along the way, he...	Joe Volpe's Assistant (uncredited)	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1990	Movie Men Of Respect In this modern day version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a hitman heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that he will rise to the...	Bankie Como	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1990	TV Law & Order In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects...	Joe Fontana	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1990	Movie People Like Us When a wealthy scriptwriter and socialite's daughter is murdered, he feels let down by the courts, and so decides to...	Elias Renthall	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1990	TV Blind Faith Successful insurance salesman Rob Marshall, his bright and devoted wife Maria, and their three sons are the perfect American family....	Prosecutor Kelly	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1989	TV Tales from the Crypt Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the...	Antoine	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1989	Movie The Case of the Hillside Stranglers The chilling true story of the "two of a kind" killing cousins, Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as...	Angelo Buono	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1988	TV Unsolved Mysteries Combines four to five segments of dramatic re-enactments, interviews and updates of real human and paranormal mysteries. An audience interactive...	Host	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1988	Movie Open Admissions An indifferent speech professor doing hack work in an urban college suddenly finds herself challenged by a ghetto youth with...	Fred Carlson	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1988	Movie Midnight Run A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I.,...	Jimmy Serrano, Chicago mobster	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1988	TV China Beach Dateline: November 1967. Within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and hospital on China Beach filled...	Lt. Colonel Edward Edward Vincent	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1987	Movie Six Against the Rock In May of 1946, Alcatraz inmate Bernie Coy initiates a carefully thought out plan to escape the island prison. His...	Robert Stroud	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1986	TV Crime Story The hard-boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Lieutenant Mike Torello and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca.	Lt. Mike Torello	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1986	Movie Crime Story: Pilot One former cop goes against the whole Mafia. The feature-length pilot for the cult 80s show.	Lt. Mike Torello	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1986	Movie Manhunter FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecktor, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game...	Jack Crawford	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1986	Movie Triplecross Three cops become instant millionaires after saving a rich crime victim. They retire from the force and use their money...	Veteran Cop, Ernie	TMDB 4.6 / 10
1986	Movie Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling Although Jo Jo Dancer has achieved success as a stand-up comedian, he hasn't found happiness. After receiving severe burns in...	Freddy	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1986	Movie Birthday Boy A salesman in a sporting-goods store takes a cross-country trip on his birthday in order to visit his old gym...	Diner Owner	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1985	Movie Final Jeopardy A small-town couple find themselves stranded in an unfamiliar, and unfriendly, big city. Weaving in and out of the proceedings...	Policeman #2	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1985	TV Lady Blue Lady Blue is a crime drama starring Jamie Rose as a Chicago female homicide detective Katy Mahoney. The show was...	Unknown character	Not rated
1985	Movie Code of Silence A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he...	Det. Dorato	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1985	TV MacGruder and Loud MacGruder and Loud is an American crime drama from Aaron Spelling Productions that aired on ABC in 1985. The series...	Bodyguard	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1984	Movie The Impostor After being released from prison, small-time con artist Cade tracks down his old girlfriend. When she rebuffs him, he fakes...	Detective	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1984	Movie The Toughest Man in the World Mr. T's first starring made-for-TV movie role has him playing a tough and scowling, but softhearted, nightclub bouncer who finds...	John	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1984	TV Hunter Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter...	Vic Terranova	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1984	TV Miami Vice The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on...	Albert Lombard	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1984	Movie Hard Knox A retired fighter pilot becomes the head of his alma matter military high school for two weeks with hilarious consequences....	Unknown character	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1984	Movie The Killing Floor During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where...	Supervisor	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1983	Movie Through Naked Eyes A musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite him--until he finds...	Patrolman	TMDB 4.6 / 10
1983	TV Hardcastle and McCormick Hardcastle and McCormick is an American action/drama television series from Stephen J. Cannell Productions, shown on ABC from 1983 through...	Ed Coley	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1982	TV Remington Steele Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman,...	Uniform	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1981	Movie Thief Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire...	Carl	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1962	TV The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10