was the Copacabana bouncer known as “Tony Lip” who was one of the main characters in the 2018 “Green Book” film, which tells the story of the elder Vallelonga as he drove black pianist Don ...

Green Book Actor Frank Vallelonga Jr. Identified ... Vallelonga Jr.'s father was actor Tony Lip, born Frank Vallelonga. Lip died in 2013 and appeared in The Sopranos, 1997's Donnie Brasco, The ...

Frank Vallelonga had a small role in “Green Book” as Tony Lip’s brother Rudy (Nick and ... “My dad loved to eat and he loved to eat everything,” Vallelonga said, mentioning how Mortensen ...

They identified the man as Vallelonga. Nick Vallelonga: “Green Book” is based on a true story that happened to my father, Frank ‘Tony Lip’ Vallelonga in the early 1960s. Dec. 18 ...

“Green Book” actor Frank Vallelonga Jr. has died at the age of 60, Variety has confirmed. The NYPD responded to a call early Monday morning just before 4 a.m. in the Bronx and found Vallelonga ...

In director Peter Farrelly’s 2018 film “Green Book,” Vallelonga Jr. played his real-life uncle, Rudy Vallelonga, while actor Viggo Mortensen portrayed his father, Tony Lip, in the best picture winner.

Frank Vallelonga Jr., an actor who appeared in the Oscar-winning 2018 film "Green Book," has been found dead ... Vallelonga's Italian American father Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga, played ...

In the 2018 Oscar-winning film "Green Book," Black musician Don Shirley, portrayed by Mahershala Ali and his white driver Tony Lip, portrayed by Viggo Mortensen, use the guide as they travel ...

One of the producers behind the Oscar-winning but divisive “Green Book” defended the film ... Jim Crow-era South by his white chauffeur, Tony “Lip” Vallelonga (Viggo Mortenson).Spike ...

Viggo Mortensen, in his Copacabana uniform, as Tony Lip in "Green Book," directed by Peter Farrelly ... see him getting into an impromptu hot-dog-eating contest in his New York neighborhood ...

Geoffrey Canada Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History Brian Purnell shares his thoughts on the Oscar Winning movie Green Book. Inspired by true events ... of driver and bodyguard Frank ...