Tony Soprano Sopranos was part of a wave of American TV dramas that finally persuaded cineastes and critics who had been snobbish and dismissive about television as a medium to accept the smaller screen as an artistic equivalent of the larger one. Although many of those who watched and wrote about TV had got this message much earlier, the remarkable and sustained range of Gandolfini's portrayal of Tony Soprano played a major part in ending any remaining inferiority complex about the medium.” Tony Soprano Anthony John Soprano (born 1959) is a fictional character and the protagonist in the HBO television drama series
Tony Musante 1975 episode of "Medical Center", "A Quality of Mercy". Musante also played Nino Schibetta, a feared Mafia boss and the Italian gang leader inside of Emerald City during the first season of the HBO television series "Oz". Musante died of complications following oral surgery on November 26, 2013, aged 77, in Manhattan. Tony Musante Anthony Peter Musante Jr. (June 30, 1936 – November 26, 2013) was an American actor, best known for the TV series "Toma". Musante was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, into an Italian-American family, the son of Natalie Anne ("née" Salerno), a school teacher, and Anthony Peter Musante,