Grave of Joe Spinell

You are approaching the final resting place of actor Joe Spinell, a man whose face was familiar to millions of moviegoers in the nineteen-seventies and eighties even if his name was not. Born Joseph Spagnuolo, he became a Hollywood staple by portraying the gritty, authentic underworld figures of the era. He is perhaps best remembered as the button man Willie Cicci in the first two Godfather films and as the asthmatic loan shark Tony Gazzo in the Rocky series. Spinell often brought an unsettling, lived-in reality to his characters, a skill that served him well whether he was playing a corrupt detective or a small-time hood.