Joe Mantegna played the lead roles in David Mamet’s House of Games and Homicide. Mantegna and Mamet started out together as actors in Chicago theater in the 1970s, before Mamet turned playwright. Mantegna went on to win a Tony Award for his performance in Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Glengarry Glen Ross . Often playing what he once called “the excellent man,” Mantegna has starred in more than forty films and currently appears on CBS’s Criminal Minds .
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
Brute Force
Jules Dassin
1947
98 min
2
The Naked Prey
UnavailableCornel Wilde
1965
96 min
3
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
UnavailablePeter Yates
1973
102 min
4
The Golden Age of Television
Unavailable480 min
5
Juliet of the Spirits
Federico Fellini
1965
148 min
6
The Ruling Class
Peter Medak
1972
154 min
7
Spartacus
UnavailableStanley Kubrick
1960
197 min
8
Rififi
UnavailableJules Dassin
1955
118 min
9
The Last Emperor
Bernardo Bertolucci
1987
163 min
10
House of Games
UnavailableDavid Mamet
1987
102 min