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Terry Carter, Vincent Gardenia, and Dennis Weaver in McCloud (1970)

Vincent Gardenia and Dennis Weaver in McCloud (1970)

Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Vincent Gardenia, and Cliff Osmond in The Front Page (1974)

Vincent Gardenia in The Front Page (1974)

Walter Matthau and Vincent Gardenia in The Front Page (1974)

Vincent Gardenia and Harold Gould in The Front Page (1974)

Jack Lemmon and Vincent Gardenia in The Front Page (1974)

Martin Gabel, Vincent Gardenia, and Austin Pendleton in The Front Page (1974)

Vincent Gardenia in Heaven Can Wait (1978)

Rick Moranis, Vincent Gardenia, and Levi Stubbs in Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Rick Moranis, Vincent Gardenia, and Ellen Greene in Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Dick Van Dyke, Sudie Bond, Barbara Cason, Vincent Gardenia, Stan Gottlieb, and Raymond Kark in Cold Turkey (1971)

Anjanette Comer and Vincent Gardenia in The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975)

Olympia Dukakis, Vincent Gardenia, and Louis Zorich in The 2nd Annual American Comedy Awards (1988)

Cher and Vincent Gardenia in Moonstruck (1987)

Nicolas Cage, Cher, Danny Aiello, Olympia Dukakis, Julie Bovasso, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Vincent Gardenia, and Louis Guss in Moonstruck (1987)

Rick Moranis and Vincent Gardenia in Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Robert Arden, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell, Francis Dux, Vincent Gardenia, Ellen Greene, Doreen Hermitage, and Michelle Weeks in Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell, Vincent Gardenia, Ellen Greene, Levi Stubbs, and Michelle Weeks in Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Morgan Fairchild, Robert Picardo, Eve Arden, Red Buttons, José Ferrer, Mark Harmon, Ray Milland, Howard Duff, Kaye Ballard, Morgan Brittany, Robert Culp, Vincent Gardenia, Robert Goulet, David Groh, Carolyn Jones, Fernando Lamas, Brianne Leary, and Jan Murray in The Dream Merchants (1980)

Vincent Gardenia in Love, American Style (1969)

Steve Martin, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell, Abbie Dabner, Vincent Gardenia, Ellen Greene, Levi Stubbs, and Michelle Weeks in Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Vincent Gardenia, and Ellen Greene in Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Vincent Gardenia in Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Vincent Gardenia and Levi Stubbs in Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

He was honored twice off-Broadway with Distinguished Performance OBIE Award, first in 1960 for "Machinal" and again in 1969 for "Passing Through From Exotic Places." In 1972 he won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a play for "Prisoner on 2nd Avenue." In 1979 he was nominated for Best Actor in a musical for "Ballroom." Gardenia was twice nominated with an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, first in 1974 "Bang the Drum Slowly" and again in 1988 for "Moonstruck." He won an Emmy Award in 1990 for Best Supporting Actor in a movie made for television, "Age Old Friends." In 1988 he was honored to be named the Grand Marshal of the Columbus Day Parade in New York City.

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