--- name: "Vincent Gallo" canonical: "https://film.one/person/vincent-gallo" fi1m_id: "vincent-gallo" imdb_id: "nm0001252" tmdb_id: 22461 wikidata_id: "Q362353" roles: ["Composer","Director"] born: "11 April 1961" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_over: 0 updated: "2026-09-17T22:19:03.688039+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Vincent Gallo ## Identity Vincent Gallo - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/vincent-gallo - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** vincent-gallo - **IMDb ID:** nm0001252 - **TMDB ID:** 22461 - **Wikidata ID:** Q362353 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Gallo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q362353, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001252/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/22461 Composer and director. Born 11 April 1961 in Buffalo - New York - USA. ## Details - **Work:** Composer, Director - **Born:** 11 April 1961, Buffalo - New York - USA - **Also known as:** Enzo Gallo, Prince Vince, Vinnie Gallo, Vincent Vito Gallo, ヴィンセント・ギャロ, Винсент Галло, Bohack, 文森特·加洛, 빈센트 갈로, وینسنت گالو, Vito Brown - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Gallo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q362353, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001252/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/22461 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Buffalo '66*](https://film.one/film/buffalo-66.md) (77) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Vincent Gallo > Vincent Gallo is worth watching when his aggression gives way to embarrassment. As actor and director, he can make a man's need for affection painfully clear; he is less convincing when he expects a woman to supply it without asking what she wants. In *Buffalo '66* (1998), Billy Brown brings a kidnapped tap dancer home to pose as his wife because he wants his family to welcome him. Gallo plays him with an exhausting energy, letting the demand for affection become embarrassing enough to expose the need beneath it. We laughed at the family visit and were surprised to feel sorry for Billy, because his desperate attempt to secure a welcome is so plainly inadequate. Gallo is good at making aggression look like a man's last available means of asking for something. His breakthrough, *Buffalo '66*, gave him several ways to shape our response: he wrote, directed, starred in and composed the music. His control of tone helps the humour survive alongside the discomfort. With *The Brown Bunny* (2003), a road film about grief, he took on cinematography and editing as well. The long takes and minimal storytelling pushed his preference for staying with an isolated man further. Some of the most effective work in *Buffalo '66* comes from his collaborators. Cinematographer Lance Acord's stark compositions leave the family exposed, while production designer Gideon Ponte makes their home an unwelcoming place. The formal staging makes even their attempts at bluffing look awkward. The control sometimes becomes a problem: Gallo arranges the family so insistently as grotesques that they become harder to believe. Christina Ricci gives the film something its writing does not reliably provide. As Layla, she makes affection for Billy seem possible from one exchange to the next, without resolving what she wants for herself. Gallo and co-writer Alison Bagnall devote much more attention to his wishes than hers, and the romance asks for indulgence we cannot quite grant. Ricci keeps Layla from becoming merely his consolation, but she should not have to do so much of that work unaided. He has also put himself in another director's hands, taking a lead role in Francis Ford Coppola's *Tetro* (2009). His wordless lead performance in *Essential Killing* (2010) makes a useful counterpoint to Billy's exhausting demands. Start with *Buffalo '66*, but keep an eye on Ricci whenever Billy insists on being the centre of attention. ## Biography Vincent Gallo is an American actor, director, screenwriter and musician. Born on 11 April 1961 in Buffalo, New York, he began his career in the New York art and music scenes before moving into film. He is best known for *Buffalo '66* (1998), in which he starred as Billy Brown, and which he also wrote, directed and scored. Other notable film roles include appearances in *GoodFellas* (1990), *Arizona Dream* (1993) and *The House of the Spirits* (1993). He wrote, directed and starred in *The Brown Bunny* (2003). Gallo received the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his performance in *Essential Killing* (2010). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, themoviedb.org, nytimes.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Buffalo '66* (1998), Fi1m 77, as Billy Brown — [page](https://film.one/film/buffalo-66.md) ## Complete filmography (64) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Memória* (2023), as Songs - *Shut In* (2022), as Sammy - *Short Plays* (2014), Director - *United States Wins the World Cup* (2014), Director, Music - *The Human Trust* (2013), as Harold Marcus - *The Legend of Kaspar Hauser* (2013), as The Pusher / The Sheriff - *Loosies* (2012), as Jax - *Wretches & Jabberers* (2011), Music - *42 One Dream Rush* (2010), as Pan - *The Agent* (2010), as The Talent · Executive Producer, Producer, Art Direction, Director, Editor, Screenplay, Original Music Composer - *Promises Written in Water* (2010), as Kevin, Art Direction · Director, Original Music Composer, Producer, Editor, Screenplay - *Essential Killing* (2010), as Mohammed - *Anea 17* (2010), Director - *Metropia* (2009), as Roger Olofsson (voice) - *Tetro* (2009), as Angelo 'Tetro' Tetrocini - *1989* (2009), as Ernest - *The Mother of Invention* (2009), Thanks - *Night of Pan* (2009), as Pan - The Legend - *Oliviero Rising* (2009), as Oliviero - *Dirt* (2007), series, as Sammy Winter - *Moscow Zero* (2006), as Owen - *Vic* (2006), Thanks - *Kill Your Idols* (2004), Thanks - *The Undesirables* (2003), as Tony Bendando - *The Brown Bunny* (2003), as Bud Clay · Screenplay, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Makeup Artist, Set Designer, Camera Operator, Art Direction, Director - *The Groovenians* (2002), as Nixon - *The Groovenians* (2002), series, as Nixon (voice) - *Get Well Soon* (2001), as Bobby Bishop / Kevin Moss - *Stranded* (2001), as Luca Baglioni - *Honey Bunny* (2001), as The Emotional Man · Editor, Writer, Director, Producer - *Downtown '81* (2001), Thanks, Original Music Composer - *Trouble Every Day* (2001), as Dr. Shane Brown - *John Frusciante Plays and Sings* (2001), Director - *Hide and Seek* (2000), as Frank - *Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby* (2000), as Sister Gomez - *Goodbye Lover* (1999), as Mike - *L.A. Without a Map* (1999), as Moss · Music - *Late August, Early September* (1999), Thanks - *Johnny 316* (1998), as Johnny - *Buffalo '66* (1998), as Billy Brown · Screenplay, Director, Original Music Composer, Story — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/buffalo-66.md) - *Vincent Gallo Directs* (1997), Writer, Director - *Looking for Enemies Finding Friends* (1997), as Vincent Gallo NYC 1997 · Director - *Truth or Consequences, N.M.* (1997), as Raymond Lembecke - *Nenette and Boni* (1997), as Vincenzo Brown - *Palookaville* (1996), as Russell Pataki - *Basquiat* (1996), as Party Guest (uncredited) - *The Funeral* (1996), as Johnny - *Angela* (1996), as Preacher - *The Perez Family* (1995), as Orlando - *U.S. Go Home* (1995), as Captain Brown - *The House of the Spirits* (1993), as Esteban García - *Figaro Story* (1993), as Vito Brown (segment "Keep It for Yourself") - *Arizona Dream* (1993), as Paul Leger - *Keep It for Yourself* (1991), as Vito Brown - *Alex* (1991), as Mário - *Breath of Life* (1990), Producer - *GoodFellas* (1990), as Henry's 70's Crew — Fi1m 93, [page](https://film.one/film/goodfellas.md) - *Doc's Kingdom* (1988), as Jimmy - *Fatal Temptation* (1988), Producer - *Vampire Lestat* (1987), Actor - *The Way It Is* (1986), as Victor / Heurtebise · Original Music Composer - *The Equalizer* (1985), series, as Tony Santiago - *Vincent Gallo as Flying Christ* (1981), as Jesus · Original Music Composer, Executive Producer - *Golden State Killer*, as Joseph James DeAngelo · Director, Writer ## Gallery - ![Vincent Gallo](https://film.one/media/person/87767/gallery-6db5c45afaf8.jpg) Vincent Gallo — Vincent_Gallo-1.jpg: Brooklyn Token derivative work: Bluefairyturnedred (talk), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Vincent_Gallo-1-2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![I believe this is a Vincent Gallo tattoo, at the Urban Bear Street Fair. To see my other Bear/Leather/Fetcish pictures, click here. (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/87767/gallery-d73b468ddf7c.jpg) I believe this is a Vincent Gallo tattoo, at the Urban Bear Street Fair. To see my other Bear/Leather/Fetcish pictures, click here. (2015) — istolethetv, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Gallo_%2817876406125%29.jpg/1280px-Gallo_%2817876406125%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![it would be so nice](https://film.one/media/person/87767/gallery-07b0334eecd5.jpg) it would be so nice — Nadya Peek from Cambridge, MA, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/It_would_be_so_nice_-_Flickr_-_Nadya_Peek.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Actor and musician en:Vincent Gallo (2005)](https://film.one/media/person/87767/gallery-0f792003a5b0.jpg) Actor and musician en:Vincent Gallo (2005) — Nadya Peek, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Vincent_Gallo.jpg/1280px-Vincent_Gallo.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Vincent Gallo](https://film.one/media/person/87767/gallery-e8f85d3bc4fe.jpg) Vincent Gallo — Image via TMDB - ![Vincent Gallo](https://film.one/media/person/87767/gallery-bfe0b5605b62.jpg) Vincent Gallo — Image via TMDB - ![Vincent Gallo](https://film.one/media/person/87767/gallery-9263928bf4e8.jpg) Vincent Gallo — Image via TMDB - ![Vincent Gallo](https://film.one/media/person/87767/gallery-12ad9c7981e9.jpg) Vincent Gallo — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 1 won - Volpi Cup for Best Actor 2010: Volpi Cup for Best Actor (won), for *Essential Killing* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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