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- Birth nameThomas Liantonio
- An accent-free native of Bronx, N.Y., Tommy Liantonio's father was Italian and mother West Indian. He took acting classes and played bit parts in a number of New York theater productions, then came to Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1980 to work as a disc jockey at a Racine, Wisconsin radio station and sent for his wife Laura and two daughters. Soon he began working at two Kenosha stations and started getting voiceover work in radio and television ads and in made-for-TV movies through talent agents and his own promotional efforts to be a character actor with sizable roles. In regional TV commercials he was a truck driver in two regional spots for Chicago HMO and a truck driver in an ad for First Wisconsin Bank. A member of the Screen Actors Guild and a Jehovah's Witness, he plays six musical instruments, has done stand-up comedy, and sings.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Louis Rugani
- SpousesCarole Waddell(July 3, 1999 - ?) (his death)Laura Liantonio (2 children)
- You never know. You hear that phone ring and you just never know who might be on the other end. Could be anybody. Could be the big one.
- I want to admit up front, I'm not the leading man. If I get a major role in a Western the only thing I'll get to kiss is the horse. But there's definitely a place for someone like me. I tend to get the heavyset, swarthy ethnic roles. Latins and so forth. I'm kind of a generic ethnic type. People mistake me for all kinds of things but that's okay. Look at how far Danny DeVito's come. He's no Clark Gable.
- Robin Givens isn't in there, but Tommy Vee is. Don't ask me how I got in there - I have no idea. They called one day to verify information on me they had gathered. I sure wasn't going to say, 'Why are you putting ME in?' And there I am. (Regarding his inclusion in the premiere issue of Who's Who in Entertainment)
- Actors are the the post office's best friends. I send out dozens of 8-by-10s and hundreds of these picture post cards to casting directors every year. I keep the post office in business.
- I was hired over the phone as a disc jockey by a Racine radio station. But when I'm unloading trucks I ask: Is this work just acting or real life?
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