Joseph Pilato

Acting

Joseph Pilato

Born — Died

1949-03-16 — 2019-03-24

Place of birth

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

44 titles

Joseph Pilato (March 16, 1949 – March 24, 2019) was an American film and voice actor. He was perhaps best known for his performance as Captain Henry Rhodes in the 1985 film Day of the Dead. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joseph Pilato, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Pulp Fiction poster
8.5

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

Pulp Fiction

1994

Spenser: For Hire poster
6.9

Mystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode.

Spenser: For Hire

1985

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. poster
7.1

A tough-as-rawhide cowpoke, debonair ladies' man and Harvard-educated smarty-britches roams from Frisco to Jalisco in pursuit of outlaws who killed his father...and in search of a mysterious orb possessing out-of-this world powers. Hot lead and cool anachronisms await Brisco as he and his sidekicks - including Comet, the intellectual equine who doesn't know he's a horse - fight for justice in the way, way, way-out West.

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

1993

Wishmaster poster
6.1

The Djinn, having been released from his ancient prison, seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to take over the earth.

Wishmaster

1997

Dawn of the Dead poster
7.5

During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

Dawn of the Dead

1978

Day of the Dead poster
7.0

As the world is overrun by zombies, scientists and military personnel in an underground Florida bunker must decide on how they should deal with the undead.

Day of the Dead

1985

Film credits

2010s · 11 titles

Underground Entertainment: The Movie poster
7.2

On the 20th anniversary of their edgy little 90's cable show Underground Entertainment, the authors, along with many SF, horror and B celebrities in cameos, remember how they pushed the envelope, shocked, entertained, but also introduced the audience to many movies, comics and conventions.

Underground Entertainment: The Movie

2011

The Chair poster
3.4

An innocent man on death row witnesses savage killings at the hands of the prison's sadistic Warden. To survive, he must match the brutality in the prison and confront his own horrifying past.

The Chair

2016

The World's End: The Legacy of 'Day of the Dead' poster
7.5

A new, feature-length documentary, filmed for the Special Edition Scream Factory Blu-Ray Release of George Romero's 1985 film, Day of the Dead A small group of scientists and soldiers have taken refuge in an underground missile silo where they struggle to control the flesh-eating horror that walks the earth above. But will the final battle for the future of the human race be fought among the living or have they forever unleashed the hunger of the dead? Lori Cardille (Tales from the Darkside), Joe Pilato (Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D) and Richard Liberty (The Crazies) star in this controversial classic with groundbreaking gore effects by Tom Savini.”

The World's End: The Legacy of 'Day of the Dead'

2013

Parasites poster
4.3

A group of friends get lost in the seedy streets where they encounter a crazed gang of homeless derelicts that seizes them and kills them one by one. The surviving man escapes on foot, naked and unarmed, with a pack of depraved transients in pursuit, and only seconds away from capture.

Parasites

2016

Sinema poster
NR

A 96 minute internet video collage made during a particularly disorientating time.

Sinema

2014

Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn poster
5.0

A group of survivors trapped in a New York apartment fight to stay alive against legions of zombies.

Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn

2015

Shhhh poster
3.1

While Harris and his Mother enjoy bonding at the movies, it seems the jerks in the theaters are making it harder for them to enjoy the show. Soon someone starts murdering those disrupting the film, and now Harris finds himself not only confronting his past, but questioning his own sanity as well.

Shhhh

2014

Attack in LA poster
6.1

Three friends find themselves lost on Skid Row and are captured by an angry homeless gang.

Attack in LA

2018

Joe of the Dead: Acting in a George Romero Classic poster
NR

25 years after-the-fact, actor Joseph Pilato talks about performing in the George Romero classic Day of the Dead, whilst sharing stories about his career and his thoughts on the remake and the world of horror movies.

Joe of the Dead: Acting in a George Romero Classic

2010

No artwork available
NR

Stever gets up close and personal with many of the talented filmmakers and stars in exclusive backstage interviews. Stever captures the set-up of the memorabilia and collectibles stands by the hard-working staff and volunteers, the panel discussion with Romero, Barbeau and others moderated by Roy Frumkes, and the long lines of fans, some adorned in full costume and make-up, waiting to get autographs of their favorite horror legends.

Saturday Nightmares: The Ultimate Horror Expo of All Time!

2010

The Black Box poster
NR

Eight year old Bobby is a strange boy. Between spying on his teenage sister's sexual exploits and peeping at his prostitute mother in the nude, Bobby loves to watch the midnight horror shows. But when the host of Bobby's favorite show begins speaking to him directly, and the people in his life dreadfully appear to him on television, the lines of reality and fiction begin to blur.

The Black Box

2010

2000s · 7 titles

Digimon: The Movie poster
6.5

When a powerful new Internet Digimon hatches and begins to consume data at an alarming rate, the Digidestined - kids chosen to save the digital world - must put an end to the destruction before the damage becomes irreversible and worldwide communication halts forever. As computer-based missiles are launched, and a wayward Digimon kidnaps the Digidestined, only the combined efforts of a worldwide network of kids and a new group of "Digidestined" can rescue the others and stop global disaster.

Digimon: The Movie

2000

Behind the Scenes with Day of the Dead poster
NR

Behind The Scenes with DAY OF THE DEAD featurette from the original Anchor Bay DVD.

Behind the Scenes with Day of the Dead

2001

Someone's Knocking at the Door poster
4.3

Returning to the same medical school where they were test subjects years before, two twisted serial killers use brutal sex acts to kill off a group of med students.

Someone's Knocking at the Door

2009

The Many Days of Day of the Dead poster
6.8

Documentary of the making of George A. Romero's zombie classic Day of the Dead.

The Many Days of Day of the Dead

2003

The Ghouls poster
3.5

Eric Hayes is a stringer. One notch below the lowest rung of the journalistic ladder. A video vulture preying on police chases, ambulance runs, and random street violence, selling his footage to the highest bidder and living on a steady diet of cigarettes and bloodlust. For years, Eric has lived off of other people's pain and misery. But he's about to discover something beneath the streets of Los Angeles even hungrier for blood than he is. He's about to discover THE GHOULS.

The Ghouls

2003

After Effects: Memories of Pittsburgh Filmmaking poster
7.5

A documentary that looks back at the making of a "lost" movie made by an enterprising group of Pittsburgh filmmakers.

After Effects: Memories of Pittsburgh Filmmaking

2005

This Way Out of Brooklyn poster
NR

Tony desperately needs some cold hard cash to help finance his next big business venture. He left Brooklyn years ago to get away from his old man and now is shacked up with his main squeeze, Aphrodite, in a Venice flophouse. One day his baby brother Mikey pays him a visit from Brooklyn. The two brothers have a deal cooking and Aphrodite is itching to find out what they have under their sleeves. But Mikey has other interests besides his deal with Tony, as he becomes more and more drawn to Aphrodite. As the brothers' plan begins to unravel, the boys encounter even more twists and turns than they had ever bargained for. They find themselves in a predicament where nothing is as it seems and the dawning realization that there is no way out of Brooklyn...

This Way Out of Brooklyn

2002

1990s · 17 titles

Pulp Fiction poster
8.5

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

Pulp Fiction

1994

Wishmaster poster
6.1

The Djinn, having been released from his ancient prison, seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to take over the earth.

Wishmaster

1997

Alienator poster
3.6

A space commander sends a female android to Earth to destroy an escaped convict.

Alienator

1990

Music from Another Room poster
5.6

Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five years later, Danny returns to his hometown and finds the irresistible Anna Swann but she finds it easy to resist him since she is already engaged to dreamboat Eric, a very practical match. In pursuit of Anna, Danny finds himself entangled with each of the eccentric Swanns including blind, sheltered Nina, cynical sister Karen, big brother Bill and dramatic mother Grace as he fights to prove that fate should never be messed with and passion should never be practical.

Music from Another Room

1998

The Demolitionist poster
4.8

A murdered police officer is brought back to life by a cold-hearted scientist to serve as "The Demolitionist", the ultimate crime-fighting weapon in a city overrun by criminals and internal corruption

The Demolitionist

1995

Empire of the Dark poster
5.6

A private detective searching for a killer comes across a satanic cult from another dimension, monsters called up from hell and murderous ninja assassins.

Empire of the Dark

1991

Blackout poster
4.7

In an office building, the power goes down, trapping numerous workers inside. What to do to pass the time?

Blackout

1996

The Last Seduction II poster
4.1

Femme fatale con artist Bridget Gregory travels to Barcelona and targets another businessman to scam him of his money while a relentless private investigator tries to track her down.

The Last Seduction II

1999

Married People, Single Sex poster
4.2

Various husbands, wives, friends, and lovers pair off in a study of sexual dysfunction. A frustrated construction worker turns to phone sex when his wife can't satisfy him; a topless dancer submits to the alluring mind games.

Married People, Single Sex

1994

The Evil Inside Me poster
7.0

The lines between past and present are mysteriously blurred when a successful real estate agent develops a strange fixation with a run-down, vacant house that was formally owned by an organized crime family. After he moves in, he is visited by a sexy ghost and begins to unravel the secrets of his former life in 1928... a past where passion and greed collide in the violent world of gangsters.

The Evil Inside Me

1993

Visions poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

Visions

1998

No artwork available
5.5

B-movie actresses are turning up dead, or simply vanishing, so two L.A. detectives are assigned to investigate. After some missteps, they begin to make some progress when a mysterious FBI agent intrudes, sending the case in an entirely new direction.

Bloodbath

1999

From Dusk Til Dawn poster
NR

A short proof-of-concept for From Dusk Till Dawn as directed by Robert Kurtzman. A different Seth Gecko fights the vampires in a familiar setting.

From Dusk Til Dawn

1991

No artwork available
4.0

The life of a mild-mannered collector of movie memorabilia is threatened when someone comes after his prize possession--a snake-skin jacket worn by Marlon Brando.

Snake Skin Jacket

1997

Cause of Death poster
7.0

Colombian Drug Lord Mannel Ramirez is lured to Los Angles to retrieve his millions in Blood Money after the chance death of his brother. Jeff Rollins, who is a DEA agent, is alerted to Ramirez' arrival by his partner Harold McBain. Ramirez is tough and smells a double-cross. A trail of death follows Ramirez after he arrives in L.A. The last man in his way is Jeff, who he quickly stabs. But is it safe for Ramirez to get his money from a bank vault that only he can open? Jeff Rollins, left for dead, reaches his younger brother Campbell before he dies, Campbell, a college senior, and his girlfriend Jessica, are now involved. Campbell, an unlikely hero, is now caught in a double intrigue and must avenge his brother's death. He is willing to stop Ramirez at any cost.`

Cause of Death

1991

Portrait in Red poster
4.1

An artist with a rather unusual art-style literally uses all the men she likes for her artworks. Bodies begin to pile up in abandoned alleyways, and the case is handed out to a homicide detective to bring in the artistic serial killer.

Portrait in Red

1995

Neon Signs poster
9.0

After his mother ditches him in a dingy roadside motel, naive teen Otis sets out to make his way to Las Vegas, hitching a ride with a pair of charismatic, middle-aged schemers. Once in Sin City, Otis finds himself drawn into an elaborate poker heist plotted by his shady new "friends" and a grizzled con artist. But Otis soon learns that his acquaintances are not to be trusted.

Neon Signs

1996

1980s · 5 titles

Series credits