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Acting

Joe Cortese

Career: Active from 1973 to 2024, with a break from 2007 to 2016, busiest in 1988 and 1992 with 3 main titles each.

Leading roles: 15
top three billing

Average score: 47/100

Highest rated: Letting Go
77/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 36 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Joe Cortese Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Wonder
2.0, average 3.4
Family Dynamics
3.8, average 4.8
Wholesome
2.3, average 3.4
Melancholy
3.7, average 4.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 3
Conspiracy 2
Psychological Thriller 2
Crime Thriller 2
Showbiz 2
Political Intrigue 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

61

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

3 titles

Here's Yanni!

as Yianni

In the Shadowlands

as Michael Greco

as Johnny

2010s

10 titles · average score 61

The Loudest Voice

66

TV show · as Roger Stone

The Last Big Save

as Frank Zimmer

Making a Deal with the Devil

as Frankie

Green Book

77

as Gio Loscudo

Doobious Sources

as Magnus Martindale

Rules Don't Apply

54

as Mobster

The Bronx Bull

32

as Vito Lazio

Perception

64

TV show · as Paolo Genardi

Fairly Legal

61

TV show · as Danny Sabbatino

The Good Guys

70

TV show · as Jimmy

2000s

9 titles · average score 54

Go Go Tales

50

as Danny Cash

Shut Up and Shoot!

32

as Spencer Spector

Bones

75

TV show · as Lou Mackey

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

84

TV show · as Sal

Against the Ropes

35

as Irving Abel

Las Vegas

67

TV show · as Nick Calabrini

The Shipment

32

as Vincent Florio

The Agency

71

TV show · as Frank First - Drug Dealer

Luckytown

41

as Sarni

1990s

18 titles · average score 53

Malevolence

as Billy Bob Jones

American History X

79

as Rasmussen

Nowhere Land

as Luke Santelli

Pacific Blue

54

TV show · as Gene Savage

The Sentinel

68

TV show · as Jack Pendergrast

Illicit Dreams

34

as Daniel Davis

Bandit: Beauty and the Bandit

34

as Slade

Born to Run

67

as Phil

Exclusive

as Oliver

Ruby

44

as Louie Vitali

Renegade

64

TV show · as Sgt. Jack Winslow

To Protect and Serve

48

as Kazinski

1980s

17 titles · average score 58

Something Is Out There

71

TV show · as Jack Breslin

Something Is Out There

71

TV show · as Jack Breslin

Deadly Illusion

40

as Detective Paul Lefferts

C.A.T. Squad

48

as John 'Doc' Burkholder

Brothers-in-Law

as Mickey Gubiacci

Letting Go

77

as Neil

Murder, She Wrote

76

TV show · as Lt. Jerry Marino

Tales from the Darkside

72

TV show · as Nicholas Casavin

Hunter

70

TV show · as Marco Brokaw

Computercide

as Lisa Korter

Evilspeak

47

as Reverend Jameson

Windows

28

as Bob Luffrono

1970s

4 titles · average score 55

Family Enforcer

51

as Jerry Bolanti

Jessi's Girls

51

as Baldry

Lotsa Luck

64

TV show · as Mr. Smith

as Reggie