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Gustav Vintas

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Gustav Vintas
The reel of Gustav Vintas - In leading roles in film and television, Gustav has played an evil mercenary opposite Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon; a gangster opposite Scott Glenn in Verne Miller; a chauffeur and butler with a penchant for burying people alive in Midnight, co-starring with Lynn Redgrave and Tony Curtis; a co-conspirator kidnapping Linda Hamilton in the final two-hour Beauty and the Beast; opposite Victoria Principal in CBS' Mistress, and Angela Lansbury on Murder, She Wrote. 

After the success of Lethal Weapon, the film's director Richard Donner selected Gustav to play the lead role in Donner's episode of the first trilogy of his cult series Tales From The Crypt. He was seen in the action film American Hero, as well as starring in Ringer. On TV he was a guest star in the FOX series Secret Agent Man. Vintas also hit the MTV airwaves as a commanding presence in the ground breaking Madonna video, Express Yourself.

 

He says he does not mind playing the villain. "I love these roles, and I know I am flexible enough to play other characters as well." Gustav does bridge these sinister roles with comedy. He was memorable as the doctor in Blake Edward's Micki & Maude with Dudley Moore and Amy Irving. Yet he does have a particularly menacing gleam and sly smile, with an accented baritone voice which has an air of sophistication and old world charm. These attributes won him the role as the real-life narco-terrorist, Pablo Escobar, in the Michael Mann, Emmy-nominated mini-series Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel, for which critics from such publications as Entertainment Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety , People and New York Magazine praised Vintas for his outstanding, multi-layered performance.
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Argentine-born, Canadian citizen and US resident Gustav Vintas is no foreigner to portraying characters of suave deception or sinister villainy. His grandparents are from Romania, and Gustav was educated at the French Lycee of Buenos Aires. He received his M.D. from the University of Buenos Aires and obtained his Residency Certificate in Psychiatry from Montreal's McGill University, Montreal and a Fellowship in Child Psychiatry from Cornell University, New York City. Trained in the arts as well, from theatre to music, Gustav has a truly classical education, which included studies at England's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and with renowned acting teacher Stella Adler in New York. A cabaret artist with international exposure, Vintas conceived, wrote and performed his one-man show "Merci Maurice", a tribute, based on the life and songs of Maurice Chevalier (www.chevalier.nu) With a French and English song repertoire, Gustav captures the essence of that great performer. This production has earned him commendations around the world as well as from the Chevalier estate. Residing in Los Angeles, you can be sure his close ties to Hollywood will produce yet another stellar role Gustav can sink his teeth into, keeping his fans eager for more.
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    Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in L'Arme fatale (1987)
    L'Arme fatale
    7.6
    • Gustaf
    • 1987
    William Baldwin and Cindy Crawford in Fair Game (1995)
    Fair Game
    4.4
    • Stefan
    • 1995
    Shannon Whirry in Ringer (1996)
    Ringer
    4.5
    • Mancini
    • 1996
    Les contes de la crypte (1989)
    Les contes de la crypte
    8.0
    TV Series
    • Dr. Emil Manfred

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    • The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park (2006)
      The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park
      3.8
      • Vampire In Movie
      • 2006
    • Texas Vampire Massacre (2004)
      Texas Vampire Massacre
      Short
      • Prof Beltran
      • 2004
    • The Gray in Between (2002)
      The Gray in Between
      5.6
      • Chet
      • 2002
    • Dina Meyer and Costas Mandylor in Secret Agent Man (1998)
      Secret Agent Man
      5.9
      TV Series
      • Henri
      • 2000
    • American Hero (1997)
      American Hero
      6.2
      • The Leader
      • 1997
    • Shannon Whirry in Ringer (1996)
      Ringer
      4.5
      • Mancini
      • 1996
    • Angela Lansbury in Arabesque (1984)
      Arabesque
      7.2
      TV Series
      • Carl Van Ness
      • Albert DeVere
      • 1992–1996
    • William Baldwin and Cindy Crawford in Fair Game (1995)
      Fair Game
      4.4
      • Stefan
      • 1995
    • Robert Patrick in Zero Tolerance (1994)
      Zero Tolerance
      5.3
      • Lee
      • 1994
    • Under Cover of Darkness
      8.1
      • Dr. Clark
      • 1992
    • La guerre des drogues II: le cartel de la cocaïne (1992)
      La guerre des drogues II: le cartel de la cocaïne
      6.6
      TV Mini Series
      • Pablo Escobar
      • 1992
    • Edan Gross, Joshua John Miller, and Marcia Strassman in And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird (1991)
      And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird
      4.8
      • Jaeger
      • 1991
    • Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman in La belle et la bête (1987)
      La belle et la bête
      7.0
      TV Series
      • Kidnapper
      • Harper
      • 1989–1990
    • Brigade de choc à Las Vegas (1990)
      Brigade de choc à Las Vegas
      7.1
      TV Series
      • Enrique Neruda
      • 1990
    • Les contes de la crypte (1989)
      Les contes de la crypte
      8.0
      TV Series
      • Dr. Emil Manfred
      • 1989

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