Vincent Spano
Vincent M. Spano (born October 18, 1962) is an American actor.
Spano was born in Brooklyn, New York to Italian American parents. In 1976, he made his stage debut in a production of The Shadow Box at Long Wharf Theatre and Broadway. His film debut was in 1979's The Double McGuffin.
He has subsequently appeared in many Hollywood films, including John Sayles's Baby, It's You and City of Hope, Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish, Alive: The Miracle of the Andes, The Rats, Over the Edge-1979 and Creator. In the 1983 family favorite The Black Stallion Returns, he played a handsome, young, Arabic rider, Raj, that returns home from university to compete in a major horse race and befriends an American boy, Alec Ramsey (played by Kelly Reno) along the way. He also starred in the Italian film Good Morning Babylon written and directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, and the 1984 film Alphabet City. He has co-starred with Dylan and Cole Sprouse in A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper. He was most recently seen on ION network opposite Lou Diamond Phillips in Lone Rider. But mostly as his recurring role of FBI Agent Dean Porter on the NBC drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit since the 8th season.
He starred in the 2004 TV film "Landslide (Buried Alive)" as a fireman trapped in a collapsed building with his son.
Acting
TV
House
as Tommy
2004
TV
The Mentalist
as Don De Jorio
2008
TV
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Dean Porter
1999
TV
Castle
as Christopher Carlucci
2009
Movie
Alive
as Antonio Balbi
1993
Movie
Rumble Fish
as Steve
1983
Movie
Oscar
as Anthony Rossano
1991
Movie
The Comeback Trail
as Joey Silva
2020
Movie
Half Brothers
as Mr. B
2020
Movie
Bent
as Charlie Horvath
2018
Movie
The Prophecy 3: The Ascent
as Zophael
2000
Movie
Over the Edge
as Mark
1979
Movie
Texas Rangers
as Ed Simms
2001
Movie
The Prince and the Pauper: The Movie
as Miles
2007
Movie
The Rats
as Jack Carver
2002
Movie
Indian Summer
as Matthew Berman
1993
Movie
The Black Stallion Returns
as Raj
1983
Movie
Maria's Lovers
as Al Griselli
1984
Movie
Creator
as Boris Lafkin
1985
Movie
And God Created Woman
as Billy Moran
1988
Movie
Baby It's You
as Albert 'Sheik' Capadilupo
1983
Movie
City of Hope
as Nick Rinaldi
1991
Movie
Good Morning, Babylon
as Nicola Bonnano
1987
TV
Pandemic
as Troy Whitlock
2007
