Vince got his role as a TV exec in Man on the Moon (1999) from his few appearances with Andy Kaufman on "Taxi" (1978).
Was frequently cast in Milos Forman films
Son, with Allyce Beasley, Andrea.
His grandfather, whom he grew up with, was a cook for an Italian baron before moving to the United States. Vincent speaks fluent Sicilian.
Studied at the New York University School of the Arts in 1969 and 1970.
His character Peter Panama on "The Corner Bar" (1972) was the first sustained gay character on American network television.
[2001] Vincent directed a theater piece in Sicily based on nine traditional fables. Six of the eight actors were Sicilian, and everything was authentic down to the local dialect. After the production, Vincent went out on stage with the actors and was met with a five-minute storm of wild flowers from the audience.
During his high school years in Brooklyn (1962 - 1966), he was the star of all the Drama Society's presentations, and was a member of the National Honor Society.
Appeared in two different, completely unrelated productions in which he played a hit man targeting a character played by Teri Hatcher: the television series "MacGyver" (1985) and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997).
Italian-American.
Vincent Schiavelli (1948) is a noted American character actor in movies and on television.
Vincent Andrew Schiavelli was born into a Sicilian-American family in Brooklyn, New York. He studied acting through the Theater Program at New York University and began working on the stage in the 1960s.
He first appeared on film in 1971, in Milos Forman's Taking Off. His aptitude and distinctive appearance soon gave him a steady career in supporting roles. Forman in particular was a regular user of his talents. He has appeared in almost fifty films. Noticed in movies he got his first television work in 1972, a minor character in The Corner Bar.
Schiavelli is also author of a number of cookbooks, his grandfather was a respected Sicilian chef, and Schiavelli has also written food articles for magazines and newspapers. He received a James Beard Foundation Journalism Award in 2001 and has been nominated on a number of other occasions.
He was married to the actress Allyce Beasley from 1985 until 1988, marrying the musician Carol Mukhalian in 1992.
