Richard S. Castellano
Birthday: 4 September 1933, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Birth Name: Richard Salvatore Castellano
Height: 175 cm
Bronx born, stocky Italian-American actor who only appeared in a handful of films, yet earned some degree of immortality for his role as the loyal Corleone capo "Peter Clemenza" teaching Al ...Show More
[on why he was not in The Godfather: Part II (1974)] I saw Clemenza as a teacher. He teaches how to Show more
[on why he was not in The Godfather: Part II (1974)] I saw Clemenza as a teacher. He teaches how to make spaghetti, how to use the gun. [Coppola] can't tell me that Clemenza, after years of loyalty to the old man, would go in and testify against organized crime. Not unless you proved to me... that he had become a fearful man, that he had become a betrayer. The demands on me were impossible. I had settled on a price and everybody else's was settled upon mine. [Coppola] had me losing weight to play Clemenza as a young man. I was down to 194 pounds. When I received the script five minutes later, it had me rolling in at 300 pounds... The next thing, I saw Coppola quoted as saying that I asked for more money than anyone else, that I asked to rewrite the script. Once the lie gets out, the lie is told, and it takes. Hide
Richard S. Castellano's FILMOGRAPHY
as Actor (9)
Richard S. Castellano'S roles
Peter Clemenza
