Vincent Baggetta

Vincent Baggetta

Left to right: Ken Swofford, Vincent Baggetta, Michael Horton, and Wendy Phillips in a promotional cast photo for
The Eddie Capra Mysteries.
Born (1944-12-07) December 7, 1944
Paterson, New Jersey, United States
Occupation Actor

Vincent Baggetta (once billed as Vince Baggetta, also listed as Vincent Beggetta) (born 7 December 1944) is an American television actor.[1]

Baggetta was born in Paterson, New Jersey.[2][3] He is best known for his starring role in The Eddie Capra Mysteries, playing the title character for the thirteen-episode run of the series in 1978-1979.[4]

His career started with bit parts in The Defenders and Naked City in 1962 and The Twilight Zone in 1963.[5]

He made appearances in several popular TV shows in the 1970s, including Mannix, Cannon, Starsky & Hutch, and The Rockford Files. He appeared in seven episodes of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman as Father Frank DeMarco.[6]

Baggetta played Lou Pellegrino in the short-lived TV series Chicago Story in 1982 .[7] In the 1980s, he also appeared in Lou Grant and Remington Steele. He made three appearances (two different roles) in Hill Street Blues and seven as Assistant District Attorney John Moretti in The Colbys.[8]

Baggetta started the 1990s as Father Jarvis in two episodes of Freddy's Nightmares, a TV spinoff of the Nightmare on Elm Street film series.[9] He also did three spots on Murder, She Wrote and a guest appearance on NYPD Blue.[10]

His latest role was an uncredited 1995 appearance in the television series Renegade.[11]

Notes

  1. Vincent Baggetta at IMDB (retrieved 14 December 2015)
  2. Staff. "Capra won't throw any punches", Eugene Register-Guard, September 2, 1978. Accessed December 15, 2015. "The call wnt out for Shannons, and a jaunty Italian from New York by way of Paterson, N.J., one Vincent Baggetta, turns up."
  3. Vincent Baggetta at IMDB (retrieved 14 December 2015)
  4. Vincent Baggetta at IMDB (retrieved 14 December 2015)
  5. Vincent Baggetta at IMDB (retrieved 14 December 2015)
  6. Vincent Baggetta at IMDB (retrieved 14 December 2015)
  7. Vincent Baggetta at IMDB (retrieved 14 December 2015)
  8. Vincent Baggetta at IMDB (retrieved 14 December 2015)
  9. Vincent Baggetta at IMDB (retrieved 14 December 2015)
  10. Vincent Baggetta at IMDB (retrieved 14 December 2015)
  11. Vincent Baggetta at IMDB (retrieved 14 December 2015)

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