Tony started his acting career late in life. He was introduced to acting on the stage at Florida Southern College in Lakeland Florida. His first production he did was on a dare, a classic, Arsenic and Old Lace. He played a policeman in the play and loved every minute of it. He spent the next 20 years building a successful medical supply business. This afforded him the opportunity to look back at his love for acting and decided this is what he wanted to do. Tony started doing local plays and eventually that gave him the opportunity to seek out professional representation to pursue acting as a career. Tony has worked both in film and TV and some of his major accomplishments would be to have worked with Oscar winner Melissa Leo on the HBO series Treme and Emmy Award winning TV show Homeland with Damien Lewis as well as Pruitt Taylor Vince on the Jules Verne inspired movie The Mysterious Island. He is also a recurring role on the 1959 circa TV show for Starz, Magic City where he plays a detective and the HBO series Treme where he plays Capt. Jack Malatesta. Tony also worked with Patrick Flueger on the upcoming film The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe. Tony has projects in development and post looking to be released by years end. Cross Threads is a family based show of a small town church where he plays senior Pastor Radke dealing with trials and tribulations that youth deal with in this small town. He is also starring in the television series Dry Creek as a horse trainer and also slated to play the sheriff in a werewolf horror film Bruin Lake. Tony and his wife Judy also started a foundation in their home town called The Amici Charity which helps provide assistance to those that are in need. Show less «