Band of Brothers
2001
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Barantini was at first an actor, [2] notably starring as Sergeant Wayne A. "Skinny" Sisk in HBO's Band of Brothers (2001). His other television roles include Billy O'Neill in Dream Team (1998-2000), Bezpalov in Chernobyl (2019), and Steve in The Responder (2022).
After 20 years of performing in front of the camera - including roles in the massively successful Band of Brothers (2001), Ned Kelly (2003), Chernobyl (2019), and Humans (2015), to name a few, Philip Barantini transitioned into directing in the late 2010s, marking his first short film with the award-winning Seconds Out (2019), written by and ...
- January 1, 1
- 1.75 m
- Liverpool, England, UK
- Overview
- Biography
Sergeant Wayne A. "Skinny" Sisk was a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company. He was one of the original 140 Toccoa men of Easy Company. Sisk was portrayed by Philip Barantini.
Sisk enlisted and volunteered for paratroopers and was sent to Toccoa, Georgia for training, then assigned to Easy Company. Sisk, along with Frank Perconte, Herman Hanson and Carwood Lipton, were the four first soldiers in Easy Company.
He took part in actions from Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge, during the later of which he was wounded on his lower right leg. He recovered and rejoined Easy. On the flight to Normandy, Sisk was in Winters' plane, and broke the tension by asking the men if they "Wanted to buy a good watch".
He was one of the original 140 Toccoa men of Easy Company. Sisk was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Philip Barantini.
- 3 min
Sep 16, 2001 · Carentan: Directed by Mikael Salomon. With Nicholas Aaron, Doug Allen, Philip Barantini, Ben Caplan. Easy Company takes on German troops in the French town of Carentan, and the battle takes its toll on one soldier who is badly traumatized by the experience.
- (10K)
- Drama, History, War
- Mikael Salomon
- 2001-09-16
After 20 years of performing in front of the camera - including roles in the massively successful Band of Brothers (2001), Ned Kelly (2003), Chernobyl (2019), and Humans (2015), to name a few, Philip Barantini transitioned into directing in the late 2010s, marking his first short film with the award-winning Seconds Out (2019), written by and ...
Band of Brothers is a 2001 American [2] war drama miniseries based on historian Stephen E. Ambrose's 1992 non-fiction book of the same name. [3] It was created by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, who also served as executive producers, and who had collaborated on the 1998 World War II film Saving Private Ryan. [4]
