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Pat Renella is a Actor American born on 24 march 1929 at Chicago (USA)

Pat Renella

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Nationality USA
Birth 24 march 1929 at Chicago (USA)
Death 9 november 2012 (at 83 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Pat Renella (March 24, 1929 – November 9, 2012) was an American actor. Of Italian descent, his motion picture debut was as an engineer in the space drama X-15 (1961) starring David McLean and Charles Bronson.

Renella acted in the stage play Bullfight, which opened at the Coronet Repertory Theatre on North La Cienega in West Hollywood on November 17, 1961.

Although there is not much written about him in the Los Angeles Times of the day, he was a working actor, mostly playing small parts as gangster types and hoods.

After playing an uncredited part as a man in the movie The Silencers (1966) starring Dean Martin and Stella Stevens, with Victor Buono, Renella had an uncredited small part in Riot on Sunset Strip (1967) starring Aldo Ray. He then played the role as Claude Sadi in Dayton's Devils (1968) starring Rory Calhoun, Leslie Nielsen, and Lainie Kazan. That same year, Renella played Johnny Ross, a Mafia supposed informant scheduled to testify in San Francisco, in Bullitt starring Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, and Jacqueline Bisset.

Renella's guest appearances on television include the hit shows Route 66, Combat!, Planet of the Apes, Mannix, The High Chaparral, McCloud, The Rockford Files, The Streets of San Francisco, Hunter, The Dukes of Hazzard, and the soap opera General Hospital.

One year when he attended the Academy Awards, he went over to Ginger Rogers at a party afterward and asked her to dance. She said yes, but told him to come back when they played something slower, which he did.

Renella played the manager of the inn in the sci fi horror drama Moonchild (1974) starring Victor Buono and John Carradine, and he played Duke in Run for the Roses (1977) starring Panchito Gomez and Vera Miles.

He played a policeman in the comedy Beverly Hills Brats (1989) starring Burt Young, Martin Sheen, and Terry Moore, and was shown flubbing a line in the bloopers shown over the end credits.

Pat Renella died at age 83 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is entombed in the mausoleum at Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.

Usually with

Chuck Hicks
Chuck Hicks
(3 films)
Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen
(1 films)
Tom Steele
Tom Steele
(2 films)
Terry Moore
Terry Moore
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Pat Renella (7 films)

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Beverly Hills Brats, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Peter Billingsley, Martin Sheen, Burt Young, Terry Moore, Fernando Allende, George Kirby
Roles Lt. Gofield
Rating38% 1.902581.902581.902581.902581.90258
Scooter (Billingsley) is a teen from a wealthy Beverly Hills family. After his plastic surgeon father (Sheen) remarries, Scooter is virtually ignored by his father and stepmother (Moore), and treated badly by his two other spoiled siblings, Sterling (Ramon Estevez) and Tiffany (Cathy Podewell). Scooter devises a plan to fake his own kidnapping to get his parents' attention and enlists the help of two bumbling crooks, Clive (Young) and Elmo (Kirby). After Scooter is "kidnapped" and a ransom is demanded, he quickly realizes that his plan failed to work and his parents don't miss him.
Bullitt
Bullitt (1968)
, 1h53
Directed by Walter Hill, Peter Yates
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Mafia films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, L'Outfit de Chicago, Road movies, Chase films, Gangster films
Actors Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Simon Oakland
Roles Johnny Ross
Rating73% 3.69813.69813.69813.69813.6981
Ambitious politician Walter Chalmers (Robert Vaughn) is about to present a surprise star witness in a Senate Subcommittee hearing on organized crime. The witness, Johnny Ross (Pat Renella), a defector from the Organization in Chicago, is put under San Francisco Police Department protective custody for the weekend, 40 hours until his Monday morning appearance.
Dayton's Devils, 1h43
Directed by Jack Shea
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Rory Calhoun, Leslie Nielsen, Lainie Kazan, Eric Braeden, Rodolfo Acosta, Georg Stanford Brown
Roles Claude Sadi
Rating56% 2.826362.826362.826362.826362.82636
Frank Dayton (Leslie Nielsen) leads a group of crooks in a caper to steal $2,500,000 from an Air Force base. Dayton is the tough-guy military leader who recruits Mike (Rory Calhoun), ex-Nazi Max (Hans Gudegast), sadistic killer Barney Barry (Barry Sadler), and failed French artist Claude (Pat Renella) in the scheme. Singer Lainie Kazan plays the romantic interest for Dayton as the nightclub songbird Leda.
In Like Flint, 1h39
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Hale, Andrew Duggan, Herb Edelman, Anna Lee
Roles Restaurant Proprietor
Rating60% 3.0499553.0499553.0499553.0499553.049955
After observing the launch of a new space platform, Z.O.W.I.E. (Zonal Organisation World Intelligence Espionage) Chief Lloyd C. Cramden joins President Trent (Andrew Duggan) for a game of golf. While on the links they are interrupted by a small group, two women disguised as boys and an actor disguised as an old man, all from the Fabulous Face organization. Discreetly substituting the presidential golf ball with a small gas bomb they succeed in temporarily immobilizing the presidential party and replacing the president with the now-undisguised actor, who has been surgically altered to look exactly like him. The Fabulous Face organization has conceived a plot to gain control of the world and run it entirely by a group of women led by Elisabeth (Anna Lee); Cramden has more-or-less inadvertently stumbled upon this world-domination plot. The women want to establish a matriarchy, and the first step in their plan is to gain control of a US space facility in the Virgin Islands. Elisabeth has established the spa there as a cover. The women establish their headquarters near the rocket base to brainwash their male-oriented sisters by planting tape recorders in their hair dryers.
Riot on Sunset Strip, 1h27
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Mimsy Farmer, John Hart, Aldo Ray, Pat Renella, Tim Rooney
Roles Perry
Rating49% 2.464852.464852.464852.464852.46485
In Like Flint, 1h54
Directed by Gordon Douglas, David S. Hall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Spy films
Actors James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Hale, Andrew Duggan, Anna Lee, Steve Ihnat
Roles Restaurant Proprietor
Rating60% 3.0499553.0499553.0499553.0499553.049955
L’agent Flint découvre que le président des États-Unis est un imposteur. Ce dernier est en réalité un acteur engagé par un groupe de femmes qui tentent de conquérir le monde. Pour ce faire, elles se servent de leurs salons de coiffure pour effectuer des lavages de cerveaux à toute personne s’y rendant…
The Silencers, 1h42
Directed by Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy, Musical, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Victor Buono, Daliah Lavi, James Gregory, Robert Webber
Roles Man (uncredited)
Rating59% 2.951272.951272.951272.951272.95127
Once a photographer by day, spy by night, Matt Helm is now a happily retired secret agent, shooting photos of glamorous models instead of guns and enjoying a close relationship with his assistant, the lovely Lovey Kravezit. But then his old boss, Macdonald, coaxes him back to the agency ICE to thwart a new threat from the villainous organization Big O.