it's Frank Vincent I believe. Phil Leotardo from The Sopranos.
Leotardo never had a mustache in the show, and looks EXACTLY like Farina with it. It was an honest mistake.
A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?

I would have made that same bet and lost, too! Now with the death of Farina I've found out I've been wrong about who was in Goodfellas all these years.

Yeah, I lost a 100 dollar bet because I said Dennis Farina was the "Go get your shinebox" guy. I will never, ever forget that.
(and RIP, Dennis Farina.)
A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?

I knew of both Farina and Vincent, but I too thought Farina played the part of Billy Batts in Goodfellas.
Like someone else said, the mustache and the mannerisms were very similar to how Farina usually acts - or at least how I picture him acting.

If they made a biopic of Tony Bennett, Frank Vincent is the man to play him.

After reading this thread I looked at my tape copy of Goodfellas, and I think Billy Bats looks more like Farina than Vincent. So I fast-forwarded to the credits to check - but there weren't any! I taped the film from TV, and they must have cut the credits to shorten it. So can someone check the credits on the official video/DVD release and settle this once and for all??

It just goes to show that a lot of us retain mannerisms and "style", as opposed to distinct facial features. Which is why sometimes people mistake you for friends they've known for years
I hadn't given it any thought, but realised they were two different people only yesterday

He looks nothing like Dennis Farina.
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actually he looks like the shah of iran

He totally looks like Farina in Goodfellas. My friend and I were just crediting it to Farina as it being his best role, when, golly gee, it wasn't even his role.

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No way these two look alike. Dennis Farina has a way more gentle face expression. Vincent to me is the ultimate definition of a GUAPPO!!
Guappo(from the dialect of Naples, Italy):a noun meaning bad guy, "the man", and so on

I think the confusion comes from the Billy Batts character having a mustache and looking like Dennis Farina, their mannerism are very similar, and they play in the same type of movies.

Now that you all have mentioned it I can see a resemblance to D. Farina. Of course Tony Soprano thinks he looks like the Shah of Iran.

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I thought they were one and the same until 5 min ago.
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He obviously DOES look like him if so many people confuse the two.

His name is Frank Vincent Gattuso. Says it in his IMDb profile.
He doesn't look anything like Dennis Farina. He is a nicer looking man than Farina. He has a straight aqualine nose, whereas Farina's nose is kind of bulbous, and he has a pock-marked complexion. Maybe it's the hair that is confusing you guys.
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For a long time i always got them mixed up. I thought Frank Vincent was Irish or something, i wonder what his real i\talian name is.

I have to ignore your advise there because smoking crack is not only fun and socially acceptable but it is also good for you

My advice to you (and all who agree with you) is to stop smoking crack!

Watching The Sopranos I swore that Frank Vincent was in Snatch, as well as Out of Sight, Goodfellas and Casino. Only after looking up the Snatch imdb list did I realise that it was Farina in both Out of Sight and Snatch. Very similar.

"He really does and for the longest time my friend thought it was farina that was in goodfellas."

So did I!!!
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