Acting
Frank Serpico
Born
1936-04-16 (90)
Place of birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known for
Acting
Credits
4 titles
Francesco Vincent Serpico (born April 14, 1936) is an American retired New York Police Department detective, best known for whistleblowing on police corruption. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was a plainclothes police officer working in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan to expose vice racketeering. In 1967, he reported credible evidence of widespread police corruption, to no effect. In 1970, he contributed to a front-page story in The New York Times on widespread corruption in the NYPD, which drew national attention to the problem. Mayor John V. Lindsay appointed a five-member panel to investigate accusations of police corruption, which became the Knapp Commission. Serpico was shot i…
Known for
5.9In 1972, officer Frank Serpico exposes the corruption which poisons the roots of the NYPD and becomes famous in 1973 when director Sidney Lumet tells his story in the classic film “Serpico,” starring Al Pacino.
Frank Serpico
2017
6.8An examination of the Oscar-winning director who brought to life some of cinema's most beloved motion pictures.
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
2017
10.0For fifty years, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark has challenged the abuses of U.S. power and championed the causes of human rights.
Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle
2017
9.5Explore America’s enduring relationship with firearms: From the first European settlements in the New World to frontier justice; from 19th Century immigrant riots to gangland violence in the Roaring Twenties; from the Civil War to Civil Rights, guns have been at center of our national narrative for four hundred years.
After Newtown: Guns in America
2013
Film credits
2010s · 4 titles
5.9In 1972, officer Frank Serpico exposes the corruption which poisons the roots of the NYPD and becomes famous in 1973 when director Sidney Lumet tells his story in the classic film “Serpico,” starring Al Pacino.
Frank Serpico
2017
6.8An examination of the Oscar-winning director who brought to life some of cinema's most beloved motion pictures.
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
2017
10.0For fifty years, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark has challenged the abuses of U.S. power and championed the causes of human rights.
Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle
2017
9.5Explore America’s enduring relationship with firearms: From the first European settlements in the New World to frontier justice; from 19th Century immigrant riots to gangland violence in the Roaring Twenties; from the Civil War to Civil Rights, guns have been at center of our national narrative for four hundred years.
After Newtown: Guns in America
2013