Vincent Gallo

Acting

Vincent Gallo

Born 1961-04-11 · Buffalo - New York - USA

Vincent Gallo (born April 11, 1961) is an American film actor, director, producer, screenwriter, singer-songwriter, and painter. Although he has had minor roles in mainstream films such as Goodfellas, he is most associated with independent movies, including Buffalo '66, which he wrote, directed, did the music for and starred in; The Brown Bunny, which he also wrote, directed, produced, starred in and photographed; Arizona Dream; The Funeral; and Palookaville. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Gallo was a painter in the New York City art scene showing with famed art dealer Annina Nosei, performed in a rap duo and was part of the first hip hop television broadcast Graffiti Rock, and played in an industrial band called Bohack which released an album title It Took Several Wives. In the early 2000s, he released several solo recordings on WARP records. Gallo is known for his outspoken views and generally sarcastic nature, once stating: "I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings; and I did it out of spite." Gallo was awarded the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor at the 67th Venice International Film Festival for his performance as a wordless escaping Muslim prisoner in Jerzy Skolimowski's Essential Killing. His own feature film Promises Written In Water, which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in, also screened In Competition at the festival.

Acting credits

GoodFellas poster
8.5

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

GoodFellas

1990

Buffalo '66 poster
7.1

Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.

Buffalo '66

1998

The House of the Spirits poster
6.9

A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.

The House of the Spirits

1993

Arizona Dream poster
7.1

Rebellious young Axel Blackmar gets caught up into the family car business when his cousin, Paul, coaxes him to come to Arizona to attend the wedding of their Uncle Leo. As Axel makes the decision to try selling Cadillacs with his family, he meets an eccentric woman named Elaine and her equally quirky stepdaughter, Grace. Their lives become inextricably intertwined through romance, dreams – and death.

Arizona Dream

1993

Tetro poster
6.8

In Buenos Aires, 17-year-old Bennie seeks out his estranged brother Tetro, a once-promising writer haunted by their family’s past. As Bennie uncovers Tetro’s hidden manuscript, old secrets and rivalries resurface, forcing both men to confront the truth about their father and the tangled legacy that tore their family apart.

Tetro

2009

The Brown Bunny poster
5.4

Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshire, he has five days to get to his next race in California. During his road trip, he is haunted by memories of the last time he saw Daisy, his true love.

The Brown Bunny

2003

Metropia poster
6.1

In the near future, oil reserves are nearly depleted and Europe is connected by series of underground tunnels. While navigating these tunnels, Roger hears voices, one in particular. Seeking a way to rid himself of the voice only leads Roger deeper into a bizarre conspiracy of control - mind and body.

Metropia

2009

Basquiat poster
6.6

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.

Basquiat

1996

Shut In poster
6.8

A young single mother is held captive along with her two children by a violent ex and must plot their escape before it’s too late.

Shut In

2022

The Agent poster
4.0

The talent agent Ari Sheinwold is visited one day by his top client Vincent Gallo for a meeting, which begins with some good news. When Sheinwold does not receive the response he expects from Gallo after telling him the "good news", the agent begins to reveal his true nature.

The Agent

2010

Stranded poster
5.5

A team of astronauts on the first mission to Mars crashes onto the surface, losing contact with Earth. With no other recourse, and help millions of miles away, the crew is forced to make desperate choices in order to stay alive. Will they be able to survive as the minutes slip away?

Stranded

2001

The Funeral poster
6.8

After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge.

The Funeral

1996

2 Days in New York poster
5.6

Marion and Mingus both come from failed relationships but, by bringing their children together, they've managed to form a small yet happy family. Tensions in their household soon begin to spike when Marion's jovial father shows up on their doorstep with his randy daughter and her peculiar boyfriend in tow. As the motor-mouthed houseguests shatter every taboo imaginable, the happy couple begin to question their commitment.

2 Days in New York

2012

Moscow Zero poster
3.4

In Moscow, the priest Owen hires a team to guide him in the underworld to find his friend Sergei that is missing while researching the legend about the existence of demons and an entrance to hell beneath the city.

Moscow Zero

2006

Trouble Every Day poster
5.8

Newlyweds Shane and June arrive in Paris for their honeymoon. In the process of trying to find a cure for his strange, bloodthirsty disease, Shane stumbles upon the story of a doctor and his flesh eating wife.

Trouble Every Day

2001

Loosies poster
5.7

A young pickpocket in the New York subways – living a fast, free lifestyle – is confronted by a woman who he had a one night affair with. She informs him that she is pregnant with his child. He must now choose between continuing with his lifestyle and taking responsibility for his actions.

Loosies

2012

The Perez Family poster
6.1

In the midst of the Mariel boat lift -- a hurried exodus of refugees from Cuba going to America -- an immigration clerk accidentally presumes that dissident Juan Raul Perez and Dorita Evita Perez are married. United by their last name and a mutual resolve to emigrate, Dorita and Juan agree to play along. But it gets complicated when the two begin falling for each other just as Juan reunites with his wife, Carmela, whom he hasn't seen in decades.

The Perez Family

1995

Goodbye Lover poster
5.6

Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.

Goodbye Lover

1999

Truth or Consequences, N.M. poster
6.1

Raymond Lembecke is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago. (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap for Vago.) Lembecke thinks Vago owes him big time so, when his former boss gets him a measly job in a warehouse, he decides on revenge and plans to steal a million dollars worth of drugs from him.

Truth or Consequences, N.M.

1997

L.A. Without a Map poster
5.8

An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a waitress at a Japanese restaurant, she tells everyone about the handsome "writer" she met on her trip. Unfortunately, he decides to follow her back to Hollywood, setting up the expected light romantic comedy with asides as the newcomer gains experience about the goings on in Hollywood.

L.A. Without a Map

1999

Essential Killing poster
5.9

A Taliban soldier struggles to survive after he escapes his captors and flees into the Polish countryside.

Essential Killing

2010

Palookaville poster
5.9

Jerry and his two pals, Russ and Syd, are just looking for some easy money to help them break out of their nowhere lives in their nowhere town. Despite a bungled jewelry store heist which exposes their incompetence as criminals, a fateful event (and an old black-and-white film) convinces them that they can pull off an armored-truck robbery. While they are busy plotting their caper, their dysfunctional families spin out of control, all around them.

Palookaville

1996

The Human Trust poster
4.0

A professional scammer is hired by a wealthy young businessman to find a hidden treasure looted from the Bank of Japan and supposedly stashed away by a group of men after WWII in various locations around the globe. Eventually an assassin is put on their trail.

The Human Trust

2013

Hide and Seek poster
5.2

A desperate, childless couple kidnap a pregnant woman and lead her husband to believe that she is dead.

Hide and Seek

2000

Behind the camera

Buffalo '66 poster
7.1

Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.

Buffalo '66

1998

Buffalo '66 poster
7.1

Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.

Buffalo '66

1998

The Brown Bunny poster
5.4

Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshire, he has five days to get to his next race in California. During his road trip, he is haunted by memories of the last time he saw Daisy, his true love.

The Brown Bunny

2003

The Brown Bunny poster
5.4

Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshire, he has five days to get to his next race in California. During his road trip, he is haunted by memories of the last time he saw Daisy, his true love.

The Brown Bunny

2003

The Brown Bunny poster
5.4

Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshire, he has five days to get to his next race in California. During his road trip, he is haunted by memories of the last time he saw Daisy, his true love.

The Brown Bunny

2003

The Agent poster
4.0

The talent agent Ari Sheinwold is visited one day by his top client Vincent Gallo for a meeting, which begins with some good news. When Sheinwold does not receive the response he expects from Gallo after telling him the "good news", the agent begins to reveal his true nature.

The Agent

2010

The Agent poster
4.0

The talent agent Ari Sheinwold is visited one day by his top client Vincent Gallo for a meeting, which begins with some good news. When Sheinwold does not receive the response he expects from Gallo after telling him the "good news", the agent begins to reveal his true nature.

The Agent

2010

The Agent poster
4.0

The talent agent Ari Sheinwold is visited one day by his top client Vincent Gallo for a meeting, which begins with some good news. When Sheinwold does not receive the response he expects from Gallo after telling him the "good news", the agent begins to reveal his true nature.

The Agent

2010

Fatal Temptation poster
4.4

A woman's husband is blinded in an auto accident, so she hires the other driver as a chauffeur. Then she catches her blind husband with his mistress so she seduces her new chauffeur into murdering him.

Fatal Temptation

1988

Anea 17 poster
NR

A conceptual, minimalist, experimental film designed to play directly along with music by John Frusciante. Screened once in public, 2017.

Anea 17

2010

Short Plays poster
5.1

Football seen through the eyes of some of the best directors of the world.

Short Plays

2014

Promises Written in Water poster
7.0

Kevin is a long-time, professional assassin, specializing in the termination of life. Mallory is a wild, poetic, beautiful young woman confronting her terminal illness and eventual suicide. She reaches out to Kevin to take responsibility for her corpse once she passes, requesting his protection of her dead body’s dignity until her cremation. Kevin’s acceptance of this request causes uncomfortable self-reflection and changes the lens through which he views death.

Promises Written in Water

2010

Promises Written in Water poster
7.0

Kevin is a long-time, professional assassin, specializing in the termination of life. Mallory is a wild, poetic, beautiful young woman confronting her terminal illness and eventual suicide. She reaches out to Kevin to take responsibility for her corpse once she passes, requesting his protection of her dead body’s dignity until her cremation. Kevin’s acceptance of this request causes uncomfortable self-reflection and changes the lens through which he views death.

Promises Written in Water

2010

Promises Written in Water poster
7.0

Kevin is a long-time, professional assassin, specializing in the termination of life. Mallory is a wild, poetic, beautiful young woman confronting her terminal illness and eventual suicide. She reaches out to Kevin to take responsibility for her corpse once she passes, requesting his protection of her dead body’s dignity until her cremation. Kevin’s acceptance of this request causes uncomfortable self-reflection and changes the lens through which he views death.

Promises Written in Water

2010

John Frusciante Plays and Sings poster
NR

A visual representation of John Frusciante's album "To Record Only Water for Ten Days". Consisting mostly in several action loops and spinning performances.

John Frusciante Plays and Sings

2001

Vincent Gallo Directs poster
10.0

A documentary on the making of “Buffalo 66."

Vincent Gallo Directs

1997

Vincent Gallo Directs poster
10.0

A documentary on the making of “Buffalo 66."

Vincent Gallo Directs

1997

Breath of Life poster
10.0

Set in Italy in 1946 just after World War 2, the film explores the lives and emotions of a group of patients who are terminally ill and confined to an isolated sanatorium.

Breath of Life

1990

Honey Bunny poster
4.0

Beautiful women spinning in circles.

Honey Bunny

2001

Honey Bunny poster
4.0

Beautiful women spinning in circles.

Honey Bunny

2001

Honey Bunny poster
4.0

Beautiful women spinning in circles.

Honey Bunny

2001

Looking for Enemies Finding Friends poster
NR

A self-portrait of Vincent Gallo.

Looking for Enemies Finding Friends

1997

United States Wins the World Cup poster
NR

A highly conceptual film commenting on national pride and international sports.

United States Wins the World Cup

2014