Vincent Vito Gallo, Jr. Wiki Biography

Vincent Vito Gallo, Jr. was born on 11 April 1961, in Buffalo, New York State USA, and is a musician, model, director, painter, and actor, best known for appearing in several mainstream films such as “Goodfellas”, “The Funeral”, and “Arizona Dream”. He is also known for his independent film work, but all of his endeavors have helped put his net worth to where it is today.

How rich is Vincent Gallo? As of late-2016, sources estimate a net worth that is at $8 million, mostly earned through a successful career in film which began in the early ‘80s. He was part of “Buffalo ‘66” and “The Brown Bunny” which he wrote and directed. He’s also released solo recordings, and as he continues his career it is expected that his wealth will increase.

Vincent Gallo Net Worth $8 million

Vincent started off working as a painter and musician in New York City during the 1980s. This was also the same time that he started experimenting with films. He made several short films and also acted in “Downtown 81”. After appearing in the 1989 film “Doc’s Kingdom”, he started playing roles in well-known films such as “The House of the Spirits” and “The Perez Family”, and participated in several Claire Denis projects. His net worth was established.

Gallo made his directorial debut in the 1998 film “Buffalo ‘66”, which was nominated at the Independent Spirit Awards and earned significant amounts of money which helped increase his net worth. His next major project would be 2003’s “The Brown Bunny” which starred Chloe Sevigny, and which proved to be controversial due to several scenes, and gained a negative critical response. In 2010, Gallo became part of the film “Essential Killing” which earned him a Volpi Cup for Best Actor during the 67th Venice International Film Festival, though he did not appear during the awards ceremony. In 2012, he became part of the film “La leggendar di Kaspar Hauser” and one of his latest project’s is 2013’s “Human Trust”. His net worth continued to rise up at this point.

Aside from films, Gallo has also played with several bands as a bassist at several clubs in New York City. Some of his recordings were part of the film “Downtown 81” and he also wrote songs for the film “Buffalo 66” and then created his own album with Warp Records entitled “When”. One of his latest performances was in the 3rd Annual San Frandelic Summer Fest in San Francisco. He’s also directed music videos such as “Cosmopolitan Bloodloss” by Glassjaw, “Grounded” by My Vitriol, and “99 Problems” by Jay-Z. Gallo also modelled during the H&M Spring 2009 collection.

Other works he’s done include a fictional appearance in the book “The Eclectic Prince”, and he also completed a fashion campaign for G-Star Raw jeans, and is the HOA president at the Arts District loft in Los Angeles.

For his personal life, Vincent is ‘… not yet married, but available to all women…’. It is known that Vincent is a supporter of the Republican Party. He is also the godfather of Chris Squire’s son, also helping Chris create an autobiography.



Full Name Vincent Gallo
Net Worth $8 Million
Date Of Birth April 11, 1961
Place Of Birth Buffalo, New York, United States
Height 1.8 m
Profession Actor, director, musician, model, director, painter
Nationality American
Parents Vincenzo Vito Gallo, Janet Gallo
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Awards Volpi Cup for Best Actor (2010, 67th Venice International Film Festival)
Albums When (2001), Buffalo 66 (1998), Recordings of Music for Film (2002), Dangerous World, The Way It Is (1992), So Sad (EP, 2000)
Music Groups My Vitriol
Nominations Golden Lion, Grand Jury Prize, Best Screenplay Award, Silver Lion for Best Director, Polish Academy Award for Best Actor, Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature, Gotham Open Palm Award, British Independent Film Award for Best Foreign Independent Film – English Language
Movies “Goodfellas”, “The Funeral”, “Arizona Dream”, “La leggendar di Kaspar Hauser” (2012), “Metropia” (2009), “Human Trust” (2013), “The Brown Bunny” (2003), Essential Killing (2010)
TV Shows “Crime Story” (1987), “The Equalizer” (TV Series, 1989), “Dirt” (2007)
Title Salary
Loosies (2011) $175,000
Essential Killing (2010) $300,000
Tetro (2009) $300,000
The Brown Bunny (2003) $500,000
Get Well Soon (2001) $400,000
Stranded (2001) $400,000
Trouble Every Day (2001) $350,000
Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby (1999) $150,000
Buffalo ’66 (1998) $200,000
Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997) $100,000
The Funeral (1996) $20,000
Palookaville (1995) $10,000
The House of the Spirits (1993) $30,000
Arizona Dream (1993) $175,000
Quote
1 Steven Soderbergh sucks. He’s just a guy who’s sort of like…there’s a whole group of guys who pretend to be making special fucking films who are just real players. Wes Anderson sucks. Spike Jonze sucks bad. James Gray sucks.
2 Drugs and alcohol cloud your mind. When you drink, you do things you wouldn’t do as sober. And that’s why most people drink… O.K., but it doesn’t interest me.
3 [on Spike Jonze] He’s the biggest fraud out there. If you bring him to a party he’s the least interesting person at the party, he’s the person who doesn’t know anything. He’s the person who doesn’t say anything funny, interesting, intelligent. He’s a pig piece of shit.
4 I wouldn’t work for Martin Scorsese for $10 million. He hasn’t made a good film in 25 years. I would never work with an egomaniac has-been.
5 Sofia Coppola likes any guy who has what she wants. If she wants to be a photographer she’ll fuck a photographer. If she wants to be a filmmaker, she’ll fuck a filmmaker. She’s a parasite just like her fat, pig father was.
6 [on Argentina]: This country sucks. If I drop a banana here, everyone kills for it.
7 I’ve never been a popular person, but it doesn’t matter. I have everything in my life that I want. I’m not a walking publicity stunt. I’m not an anarchist, or bitter. I’m not trying to be subversive. I just try to remain unguarded, unprotected by fear, and agents and publicists, and I feel comfortable that way.
8 I sold The Brown Bunny camera package because I had organized it so methodically, so precisely, that I couldn’t let anyone touch it, scratch it, or break it up. I just had to get it out of my life. The package was sold to Sage Stallone who’s one of my favorite people in this whole world, one of the smartest, young, goofy kids I’ve ever known in my whole life. So it went to the right person
9 I feel very happy that Bush is our president. One way that you can tell we have a good president, is by how much the French dislike him. The more the French hate him, the better he must be. And they hate this one.
10 I became an actor, because of Danny Bonaduce on the “Partridge Family”. He’s tremendous, so funny and brilliant, and we seemed around the same age, I felt I should be on a show with him. We could have done a good spin-off, “the Danny Bonaduce, Vinnie Gallo show”, da-da-da-da- da di da da.
11 My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub. To save, he used to put the water 4 inches from the bottom. At home everything was ugly, casual, lacking in love, from furniture to clothes, to behaviors…
12 The good thing about bicycling is that, since I’m a public figure, I don’t have to interact with people. If I walk from here to West Broadway, 50 people will stop me. On my bike, I can just wave. More public figures should ride bikes. It’s a good way to deal with people.
13 I did my first job as an actor and my first role was in 1978 in Rome. I did a play with an Italian actor named Victor Cavallo who worked with Bernardo Bertolucci. After that I was very much a part of the New York performance art and underground theater and movie scene, so it’s been quite awhile. But always very peripheral.
14 “Well, if you want to be an actor, move to a major city, either in L.A. or N.Y. and every day do as many things as you possibly can to reach that goal. But make sure that goal is set so high, that if you reach one-tenth of the goal, you’ve gone a long ways. Fantasize and believe that you could star in a 100 Oscar-winning movies, and just work for that every day. Let’s face it, most people want to be actors because they want unconditional love and power and money and to be able to act out a character fantasy that involves themselves.
15 I’m so in love with the United States. Not as a patriot. I’m in love with America like it’s my first girlfriend. The geography, the people, the smell, the touch, the taste, the gas stations. I’m madly in love with America. Madly in love. And I was the guy that people used to say, “He’s so European.” I mean, I never felt like that. I don’t relate to those monkeys. I just can’t relate to them. I’m a super American–Captain America.
16 I’m not an artist, I’m a hustler. As a hustler I’ve done many things. You should really believe it when I tell you that, ’cause I’m not being sarcastic. I’m a total hustler. What that means is I’ve hustled to make a buck and I’ve hustled to change the world and I’ve hustled to take revenge – but it’s always hustling. I’ve never had a career or a single goal. I’ve never been formally educated. To get things together, to make a living, I constantly have to hustle.
17 I told you, I’m an extremist. Even in art, if my work wasn’t 50 times more interesting than me and my petty life, it would be useless.
18 I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It’s too ambitious for me.
19 I don’t drink any coffee or take any drugs and I don’t smoke cigarettes and I don’t eat sugar and I don’t take any medicine at all. I eat a lot of fish, vegetables, and I stay away from starches. I’m not so sure my eating behavior is responsible. I look like someone who takes drugs, so I refuse to take even aspirin in order to contradict my appearance. But I like the color brown. Oh, and I don’t eat dairy. And I sure do like the color brown.
20 Early in elementary school I had a very small moment where I had a different face – a little nose, straight, blond hair. I had a lot of response, from older women and little girls. But at some point when I transformed into a less [attractive] person, I decided to push away my feelings, to protect myself in order to avoid rejection.
21 There’s nothing self-gratifying about knowing you’ve played a performance where people may easily dislike the character and associate it with you. There’s nothing fun about having people suspicious about why you’re making work. I’m clearly not networking or making a bid for popularity. I’m following another motivation, and it’s not as a provocateur. It’s because I’m blinded, like an idiot, by wanting to preserve and express an insight that I have, or an aesthetic that I believe in. I forget that people react to me personally as the representative of that. Did you see a credit for hair and makeup? How can I be a narcissist? I’ve never even had hair and makeup done for me on a film. I don’t even know what I look like as I’m filming. – on being called a narcissist.
22 I’m the happiest the saddest guy in the world can be.
23 I don’t trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere. Crippity crappity creepies.
24 I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings. And I did it out of spite.
Fact
1 Living in downtown Los Angeles. Within the past 24 months, he has written, directed and produced three films, two of which were in the 67th Venice film festival and both were in competition. At that festival, Gallo won the best actor prize. Mr. Gallo is currently set to star in an Italian film titled La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser (2012). [April 2011]
2 Working on second directorial movie, The Brown Bunny (2003). Lives in NYC and L.A. [March 2002]
3 Was originally set to play Tony Childress/Jesus in Abel Ferrara’s Mary (2005).
4 Very good friend of Johnny Ramone, Rick Rubin, PJ Harvey, John Frusciante, Lukas Haas, Val Kilmer and Anna Sui.
5 The Italian rock band, Timoria, named the song, “Vincent Gallo Blues”, after him. Cat Power (aka Chan Marshall) of Cat Power named the song, “Mr. Gallo”, after him.
6 During his late teens he fled to Europe alone and ended up spending a year traveling around France, Spain, Great Britain, Portugal, Sweden, Russia, Denmark and Italy.
7 Divides his time between Los Angeles and NYC.
8 Italian-American. Holds both an American and Italian passport.
9 Was engaged to Italian actress Asia Argento in 1998.
10 Was a hip-hop breakdancer in the early ’80s as evidenced in the DVD “Graffiti Rock”.
11 Son of Genevieve Gallo and Vincenzo Vito Gallo.
12 Co-founded the NYC Breakers.
13 Parents emigrated from Sicily.
14 Released an album (titled “When”) on the Warp label in 2001. He composed, performed and produced all the music on the record.
15 Childhood idol: Chris Squire, bass player of Yes.
16 Was in an experimental noise band called Gray with New York artist Jean Michel Basquiat in the early 1980s. They played at all the most popular punk rock/new wave clubs in the city, including Max’s Kansas City, CBGB’s, and one (now famous) night at the Mudd Club. They broke up soon after and Basquiat became famous and several years after that Gallo would also become famous.
17 Is a big music enthusiast. Gallo owns over 30,000 vinyl albums and has the largest collection of vintage Hi Fi and audio gear in the USA.
18 Called off engagement to writer Bethany Ritz. [April 2000]
19 Has over 7500 videotapes, laser discs, DVDs, and film prints.
20 He writes for a magazine called Sound Practices.
21 Dropped out of Sweet Home Central Schools, New York. [1978]
22 Announced engagement to New York writer, Bethany Ritz. [April 1999]
23 Known for his multiple talents (filmmaker, actor, writer, musician, audio engineer, motorcycle racer), as well for his very conceptual and outspoken views and his radical, funny and original way of stating those views. A totally original one-of-a-kind person.

Actor

Title Year Status Character
Jinrui shikin 2013 Harold Marcus
La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser 2012 Pusher / Sheriff
Loosies 2011 Jax
Promises Written in Water 2010 Kevin
Essential Killing 2010 Mohammed
Metropia 2009 Roger Olofsson (voice)
1989 2009 Short Ernest
Tetro 2009 Angelo ‘Tetro’ Tetrocini
Night of Pan 2009 Short Pan
Oliviero Rising 2007 Oliviero
Dirt 2007 TV Series Sammy Winter
Moscow Zero 2006 Owen
Gli indesiderabili 2003 Antonino ‘Tony’ Bendando
The Brown Bunny 2003 Bud Clay
The Groovenians 2002 TV Short Nixon (voice)
Get Well Soon 2001 Bobby Bishop / Kevin Moss
Stranded 2001 Luca Baglioni
Trouble Every Day 2001 Shane Brown
Cord 2000 Video Frank
Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby 1999 Sister Gomez
L.A. Without a Map 1998 Moss
Goodbye Lover 1998 Mike (uncredited)
Johnny 316 1998 Johnny
Buffalo ’66 1998 Billy Brown
Truth or Consequences, N.M. 1997 Raymond Lembecke
The Funeral 1996 Johnny
Nenette and Boni 1996 Vincenzo Brown
Palookaville 1995 Russell Pataki
The Perez Family 1995 Orlando
Angela 1995 Preacher
Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge… 1994 TV Series Captain Brown
The Hanging 1993 Short The Guy
The House of the Spirits 1993 Esteban Garcia
Arizona Dream 1993 Paul Leger
Keep It for Yourself 1991 Short
Alex 1991 Mario
Goodfellas 1990 Henry’s 70’s Crew (as Vinnie Gallo)
The Equalizer 1989 TV Series Tony Santiago
Doc’s Kingdom 1988 Jimmy
Crime Story 1987 TV Series Charlie Riccio
The Gunlover 1986 Short Dino
The Way It Is 1985 Victor / Heurtebise

Soundtrack

Title Year Status Character
Wretches & Jabberers 2011 Documentary performer: “No Regard”
Parashat Ha-Shavua TV Series performer – 4 episodes, 2006 – 2008 writer – 4 episodes, 2006 – 2008
L.A. Without a Map 1998 performer: “A Taste of Honey”
Buffalo ’66 1998 performer: “Lonely Boy”, “A Falling Down, Billy Brown”, “Drowning In Brown”, “A Somewhere Place”, “A Wet Cleaner”, “Sixteen Seconds Happy”, “With Smiles & Smiles & Smiles”, “A Cold & Grey Summer Day” / writer: “Lonely Boy”, “A Falling Down, Billy Brown”, “Drowning In Brown”, “A Somewhere Place”, “A Wet Cleaner”, “Sixteen Seconds Happy”, “With Smiles & Smiles & Smiles”, “A Cold & Grey Summer Day”
Downtown 81 1981 performer: “Brown 69”, “16 Seconds” / writer: “Brown 69”, “16 Seconds”

Director

Title Year Status Character
Short Plays 2014 segment “USA”
United States Wins the World Cup 2014 Short
Anea 17 2010 Short
The Agent 2010 Short
Promises Written in Water 2010
The Brown Bunny 2003
Buffalo ’66 1998
Vincent Gallo Directs 1997 Documentary short
If You Feel Froggy, Jump 1986 Short documentary
The Gunlover 1986 Short

Producer

Title Year Status Character
Promises Written in Water 2010 producer
The Brown Bunny 2003 producer
Breath of Life 1990 producer
Errore fatale 1988 producer
If You Feel Froggy, Jump 1986 Short documentary producer
The Gunlover 1986 Short producer
United States Wins the World Cup 2014 Short producer
Anea 17 2010 Short producer
The Agent 2010 Short producer

Writer

Title Year Status Character
United States Wins the World Cup 2014 Short
Anea 17 2010 Short written by
The Agent 2010 Short written by
Promises Written in Water 2010 screenplay
The Brown Bunny 2003 written by
Buffalo ’66 1998 screenplay / story
Vincent Gallo Directs 1997 Documentary short writer
The Gunlover 1986 Short

Composer

Title Year Status Character
The Agent 2010 Short original music by
Promises Written in Water 2010 original music by
Meeting Vincent Gallo 2008 Short
Buffalo ’66 1998
If You Feel Froggy, Jump 1986 Short documentary
The Gunlover 1986 Short
The Way It Is 1985
Downtown 81 1981

Editor

Title Year Status Character
United States Wins the World Cup 2014 Short
Anea 17 2010 Short
The Agent 2010 Short
Promises Written in Water 2010
The Brown Bunny 2003
If You Feel Froggy, Jump 1986 Short documentary
The Gunlover 1986 Short

Camera Department

Title Year Status Character
Anea 17 2010 Short lighting
The Brown Bunny 2003 camera operator
If You Feel Froggy, Jump 1986 Short documentary camera operator
The Gunlover 1986 Short camera operator

Art Director

Title Year Status Character
The Agent 2010 Short
Promises Written in Water 2010
The Brown Bunny 2003 uncredited

Make Up Department

Title Year Status Character
The Agent 2010 Short hair / makeup
The Brown Bunny 2003 makeup artist – uncredited

Cinematographer

Title Year Status Character
Anea 17 2010 Short
The Brown Bunny 2003 director of photography

Costume Designer

Title Year Status Character
The Agent 2010 Short
The Brown Bunny 2003 uncredited

Set Decorator

Title Year Status Character
The Agent 2010 Short
The Brown Bunny 2003 uncredited

Art Department

Title Year Status Character
The Brown Bunny 2003 set designer – uncredited

Music Department

Title Year Status Character
Buffalo ’66 1998 musician

Production Designer

Title Year Status Character
The Brown Bunny 2003 uncredited

Miscellaneous

Title Year Status Character
Graffiti Rock 1984 TV Movie production assistant

Thanks

Title Year Status Character
Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk 2014 special thanks
The Mother of Invention 2009 special thanks
Vic 2006 Short special thanks – as V. Gallo
Kill Your Idols 2004 Documentary extra special thanks
Late August, Early September 1998 thanks – as Enzo Gallo
Downtown 81 1981 thanks

Self

Title Year Status Character
2 Days in New York 2012 Himself (uncredited)
Gray: Live at the New Museum 2011 Documentary
The Agent 2010 Short Himself
Bienvenue 2007 Documentary Himself
Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton 2007 TV Movie documentary Himself (uncredited)
The Work of Director Mark Romanek 2005 Video documentary Himself (segment “99 Problems”)
My Coolest Years 2004 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself – ‘B-Boys & B-Girls’
Lit: All Access 2004 Video documentary In “Bitter”
Rated ‘R’: Republicans in Hollywood 2004 TV Movie documentary Himself – Interviewee
Howard Stern 2004 TV Series Himself
Making the Video 2004 TV Series documentary Himself
Perfect Moment 1997 Documentary Himself
We’re Outta Here! 1997 Video documentary Himself
Vincent Gallo Directs 1997 Documentary short
Basquiat 1996 Himself / Party Guest (uncredited)
Lauren Hutton and… 1996 TV Series Himself
If You Feel Froggy, Jump 1986 Short documentary Bohack
Graffiti Rock 1984 TV Movie Himself (as Prince Vince)
Downtown 81 1981 Himself

Archive Footage

Won Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
2010 Best Actor Mar del Plata Film Festival Essential Killing (2010)
2010 Volpi Cup Venice Film Festival Best Actor Essential Killing (2010)
2003 FIPRESCI Prize Viennale The Brown Bunny (2003)
2002 Best Actor Fantafestival Stranded (2001)
2001 ‘La Galería’ Award Alcalá de Henares Short Film Festival Best Performance (Mejor Interpretación) Stranded (2001)
1999 MovieZone Award Rotterdam International Film Festival Buffalo ’66 (1998)
1998 Special Prize of the Young Jury Gijón International Film Festival Best Feature Buffalo ’66 (1998)

Nominated Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
2011 Eagle Polish Film Awards Best Actor (Najlepsza Glówna Rola Meska) Essential Killing (2010)
2010 Golden Lion Venice Film Festival Promises Written in Water (2010)
2010 Venice Horizons Award Venice Film Festival Best Short Film The Agent (2010)
2003 Palme d’Or Cannes Film Festival The Brown Bunny (2003)
2003 Golden Alexander Thessaloniki Film Festival The Brown Bunny (2003)
1999 Independent Spirit Award Independent Spirit Awards Best First Feature Buffalo ’66 (1998)
1999 OFTA Film Award Online Film & Television Association Best First Feature Buffalo ’66 (1998)
1998 Grand Special Prize Deauville Film Festival Buffalo ’66 (1998)
1998 Grand Prix Asturias Gijón International Film Festival Best Feature Buffalo ’66 (1998)
1998 Open Palm Award Gotham Awards Buffalo ’66 (1998)
1998 Bronze Horse Stockholm Film Festival Buffalo ’66 (1998)
1998 Grand Jury Prize Sundance Film Festival Dramatic Buffalo ’66 (1998)

3rd Place Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
1998 NYFCC Award New York Film Critics Circle Awards Best First Film Buffalo ’66 (1998)

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