Leo Rossi

Acting

Leo Rossi

Born 1946-06-26 · Trenton, New Jersey, USA

Leo Rossi  (born 1946) is an American character actor and writer with over 100 credits to his name, often playing authority figures, gangsters and other villains. He is known for his role as Budd Scarlotti in the 1981 horror film Halloween II and as Turkell from the 1990 horror sequel Maniac Cop 2. His other films include Heart Like a Wheel (1983), River's Edge (1986), The Accused (1988), Relentless (1989) and Analyze This (1999). Rossi starred on the 1980s short-lived TV series Partners in Crime and appeared in made-for-TV movies. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leo Rossi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Acting credits

Looney Tunes: Back in Action poster
6.4

Fed up with all the attention going to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck quits Hollywood, teams up with recently-fired stuntman Damien Drake Jr. and embarks on a round-the-world adventure, along with Bugs and The VP of Warner Bros. Their mission? Find Damien's father, and the missing blue diamond... and stay one step ahead of The Acme Corp., who wants the diamond for their own purposes.

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

2003

Halloween II poster
6.6

After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his favorite victim.

Halloween II

1981

Analyze This poster
6.5

Countless wiseguy films are spoofed in this film that centers on the neuroses and angst of a powerful Mafia racketeer who suffers from panic attacks. When Paul Vitti needs help dealing with his role in the "family," unlucky shrink Dr. Ben Sobel is given just days to resolve Vitti's emotional crisis and turn him into a happy, well-adjusted gangster.

Analyze This

1999

The Accused poster
7.1

Out drinking one night after a fight with her boyfriend, three men brutally rape Sarah Tobias in a bar while people watch and cheer. District Attorney Kathryn Murphy takes the case; however, she allows the rapists to receive a mild sentence. A distraught Sarah decides to seek punishment for the men who witnessed and encouraged the rape. To get justice, Sarah must take the stand and revisit the night of her attack.

The Accused

1988

Black Widow poster
6.2

Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a master of disguise and has multiple identities, Alexandra can't prove anything with conventional detective work. With no other option, she goes undercover, pursuing the same man as Catherine, and hoping that Catherine will slip up and reveal her true identity.

Black Widow

1987

River's Edge poster
6.5

A group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Faced with the brutality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police, or to help him escape the consequences of his dreadful deed.

River's Edge

1986

10th & Wolf poster
5.9

A former street thug returns to his Philadelphia home after a stint in the military. Back on his home turf, he once again finds himself tangling with the mob boss who was instrumental in his going off to be a soldier.

10th & Wolf

2006

Gotti poster
5.3

John Gotti rises to the top of the New York underworld to become the boss of the Gambino crime family. His life takes a tumultuous turn as he faces tragedy, multiple trials and a prison sentence.

Gotti

2018

Maniac Cop 2 poster
5.9

Undead cop Matt Cordell rises from the grave, and is after the criminals who murdered him in prison.

Maniac Cop 2

1990

Maniac Cop poster
6.1

A killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City.

Maniac Cop

1988

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9.0

A daft doctor concocts an offbeat scheme to make millions after he happens upon a method of turning cremated human remains into diamonds. But when the sawbones hires a pair of hapless thieves to collect the raw material, a string of calamities ensues in their insane efforts to pilfer the ashes of prominent and historic figures. Tippi Hedren, Bronson Pinchot, Richard Moll and Joan Van Ark head the cast in this inky morality yarn.

Diamond Zero

2005

One Night at McCool's poster
5.9

On an ordinary night, in an ordinary part of town, a beautiful young woman walks into a bar. Her name is Jewel, and before long she is chatting to bartender Randy. The pair leave together, but he ends up getting into a tussle with her criminal boyfriend, who she then shoots dead, later persuading Randy to take the rap for her. But this isn't the end of it, as both Randy's cousin Carl and the detective assigned to the murder case also fall for Jewel's charms and find themselves caught up in the ensuing events. It seems that any man who meets Jewel falls instantly in love with her, and she's going to use this fully to her own advantage, leaving a trail of havoc in her wake. It also seems that she is going to get away with it - that is, until Randy decides to hire a hitman...

One Night at McCool's

2001

Where the Day Takes You poster
6.1

King is a young man, but he's already a veteran of life on the streets of Los Angeles. The de facto leader of a group of teenage runaways, King acts as a mentor to troubled kids such as gay hustler Little J and junkie Greg. When Heather, a beautiful girl from Chicago, starts hanging out with King and his crew, it changes the dynamic of the gang. However, it seems as though nothing will alter their dangerous lifestyle.

Where the Day Takes You

1992

Relentless poster
5.3

Two Los Angeles police detectives hunt for a serial killer who randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory.

Relentless

1989

Sticks poster
2.0

Sticks is an off-beat noir comedy about a smugglar of Cuban cigars who gets involved, and ultimately falls in love, with a Cuban revolutionary who's in the U.S. trading cigars for guns. The two join forces to sell a large (stolen) shipment of Castro's private label cigar, the famed "El Mariposa", and suddenly they find themselves enmeshed in the seedy underbelly of a mob-run cigar smuggling ring that's being monitored by the feds.

Sticks

1998

Mr. Billion poster
5.5

An Italian mechanic finds that he has inherited a billion-dollar company from his dead uncle, but he needs to be in San Francisco in 20 days to sign over the will. In the meantime, he is chased by kidnappers and the affected corporation's president.

Mr. Billion

1977

Raw Justice poster
5.3

The mayor of a small town hires a bounty hunter to find his daughter's killer, but it turns out to be a very dangerous job.

Raw Justice

1994

The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human poster
6.0

David Hyde Pierce, playing an alien (credited as infinity-cubed in the opening credits), narrates a courtship in a late-20th century American city as an extraterrestrial nature documentary. The relationship "footage" is played straight, while the voice-over (with its most often wildly inaccurate theories) and elaborate visual metaphors add comedy.

The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human

1999

Grand Theft Auto poster
5.3

A rich girl steals her dad's Rolls Royce and heads off to Las Vegas to get married. However, her angry parents, a jealous suitor, and a bunch of reward seekers are determined to stop her.

Grand Theft Auto

1977

Brainwash poster
6.3

A group of husbands with their wives participate in a reunion where everybody will find his hidden secret. The methods used are terrible, but usually work. Just usually.

Brainwash

1983

The Prince and the Pauper: The Movie poster
5.5

A modern day telling of the Mark Twain classic, The Prince and the Pauper.

The Prince and the Pauper: The Movie

2007

The Assault poster
4.3

A female cop assigned to protect a dead drug dealer's girlfriend from mob assassins takes her to a home for battered wives. When revenge is the only option, the emotionally scarred women are forced to fight back.

The Assault

1998

Fatal Conflict poster
4.6

In a lawless futuristic society, a rebel must prevent a tandem of renegades from destroying Los Angeles. An ex-star pilot is forced to stop a mad criminal and his gang after they've hi-jacked a huge space freighter with the intent of crashing it into Los Angeles destroying what is left of civilization. Time is running out.

Fatal Conflict

2000

Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story poster
5.8

A young girl falls in love with a married auto body shop worker, leading to dramatic consequences.

Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story

1993

Behind the camera