13 Facts About Vincent Schiavelli

Vincent Andrew Schiavelli was an American character actor noted for his work on stage, screen, and television.

Vincent Schiavelli was born in Brooklyn to Sicilian-Americans John Vincent Schiavelli and Katherine Coco.

Vincent Schiavelli attended Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn.

Vincent Schiavelli studied acting through the theatre program at New York University and began performing on stage in the 1960s.

Vincent Schiavelli was raised in the large Sicilian neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn; the stories and recipes of which he shared in his 1998 book Bruculinu, Remembrances of Sicilian American Brooklyn.

Vincent Schiavelli played Mr Vargas, the biology teacher, in the 1982 comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High, a role he reprised in the 1986 television spin-off Fast Times.

Vincent Schiavelli was cast in a similar role in Better Off Dead in which he played Mr Kerber, a geometry teacher.

Vincent Schiavelli appeared as another villain in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, as a silent monk in The Frisco Kid, and as John O'Connor, one of the evil Red Lectroids in 1984's The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.

Vincent Schiavelli appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Arsenal of Freedom" as a holographic salesman, on Miami Vice as a research scientist who conspires to steal a top-secret prototype weapon from his employer, and in an uncredited role in an episode of Punky Brewster.

Vincent Schiavelli was honorary co-chair of the National Marfan Foundation, an organization that serves those affected by Marfan syndrome, from which Vincent Schiavelli suffered.

Vincent Schiavelli performed in a few video games, including Emperor: Battle for Dune and as Dr Hellman in the video game Corpse Killer.

Vincent Schiavelli then married harpist Carol Sue Mukhalian on October 23,1992.

Vincent Schiavelli was buried at Polizzi Generosa Cemetery near Palermo, Sicily.