RIP Mario Donatone. Italian character actor Mario Donatone
died April 14, 2020, he was 83. Cast by Francis Ford Coppola as a hitman it The Godfather - Part
III, and an unfailing presence in almost all the movies with Tomas
Milian, as well as film, TV actor and theater director he was
born in Tripoli
on June 9, 1933. He appeared in
over 150 films,
and worked with famous directors, but the role for which he is best remembered
is that of the assassin Mosca,
the fake priest who in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather - part III (1990) shoots Michael
Corleone (Al Pacino). Donatone was also a theater director and writer.
Mario appeared in only one Euro-western 1973’s “Bad Kids of the West”.
He was born June 9, 1933 so he was 86 and not 83 when he died.
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