The Sopranos
1999
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His life in the early 1960s, when he was the driver and bodyguard for the black classical pianist Don Shirley, was dramatized in the 2018 film Green Book, in which he was portrayed by Viggo Mortensen. The film won numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Nov 26, 2018 · The film follows pianist Don Shirley and he travels through the Deep South in the era of Jim Crow and forms a friendship with his driver, white, Italian-American bouncer, Tony Lip. Vallelonga perhaps has some credibility in his claim as Tony Lip, after all, was his father.
When the trio set out on another tour later that year, Shirley hired a white driver, a gregarious Italian-American bouncer known as Tony Lip, to handle problems that might arise in the...
Nov 16, 2018 · The story is based on a tour the virtuoso Don Shirley, born in Florida to Jamaican parents, undertook with a Bronx native called Tony Lip at the wheel. As family legend had it, Lip began...
Starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, the film is inspired by the true story of a 1962 tour of the Deep South by African American pianist Don Shirley and Italian American bouncer and later actor Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga, who served as Shirley's driver and bodyguard.
Feb 24, 2019 · The passengers of Farrelly’s theatrical vehicle are acclaimed pianist Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) and Frank Anthony Vallelonga, who is affectionately referred to as Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) for his gift of gab.
Nov 23, 2018 · The same was true of his research to play the real-life Italian-American driver-turned-actor Tony “Lip” Vallelonga in Universal’s Green Book, about the true friendship between Vallelonga and...
