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Anthony Denison Biography

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Anthony Denison played mob boss Ray Luca in the 1980s TV series Crime Story. The show was a cult hit from 1986-88 (and made a star of another cast member, Dennis Farina). After Crime Story Denison settled into a career as a character actor, specializing to a degree in suspense and crime movies like Criminal Passion (1994) and Road Kill (1999). On TV he played real-life rogues Joey Buttafuoco (in The Amy Fisher Story, 1993) and John Gotti (in Getting Gotti, 1994). Over the years he has appeared on many television shows, in recent years as Tony Denison, including JAG and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He also appeared in several episodes of the Wentworth Miller series Prison Break (in 2006) and is part of the Kyra Sedgwick television series The Closer (2005-09).

Extra credit: He is sometimes billed as Anthony John Denison or Tony Denison.

Other actors who've played mobsters include James Gandolfini, Ving Rhames and Robert DeNiro.