Frank John Hughes

Frank John Hughes

Infobox Actor



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Frank John Hughes (born November 11, 1967) is an American film and television actor best known for his portrayal of "Wild Bill" Guarnere in the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers" and "Tom Fox" in "Catch Me If You Can".

A native of the South Bronx, Hughes studied Jazz composition at the Berklee College of Music in Boston before making his feature film debut in Robert Celestino's "True Convictions" (1991). Since then he has starred in such films as: "Bad Boys" (1995) opposite Will Smith, "Lonely in America" (1991), "The Funeral" (1996) opposite Benicio del Toro and Christopher Walken, "Layin' Low" (1996), "Mr. Vincent" (1997) (for which he won mass critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival for his role as John Vincent), "Urban Jungle" (1999), "Robbers" (2000), "Anacardium" (2001) (for which he won BEST ACTOR at the New York Independent Film Festival) and Steven Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can" (2002) opposite Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio.

He will next be seen in Robert Celestino's "Yonkers Joe" opposite Chazz Palminteri and Christine Lahti and in Jon Avnet's "Righteous Kill" opposite Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.

A veteran of numerous television appearances Hughes was most recently seen on HBO's "The Sopranos" as Walden Belfiore, a soldier the Soprano crime family, who committed the historic 'last murder' in the landmark series when he killed Lupertazzi crime family Boss, Phil Leotardo.

Hughes also received wide international acclaim for his portrayal of "Wild Bill" Guarnere in the HBO mini series event, "Band of Brothers" (2001) which won both the Golden Globe and Emmy awards for Best Mini Series.

Hughes also starred in the Dick Wolf series "Players" (1997) and "LAX" for NBC. Other appearances include: "Cover Me" (series regular), "Law & Order", ', "Feds", "Without a Trace", "Monk", "Boomtown", "Kings of South Beach", "Curb Your Enthusiasm", "The Path to 9/11", ' and many others.

In 2007 Hughes joined the cast of the hit series "24" as Director of Homeland Security, Tim Woods.

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* [http://www.brothersinbattlethebook.com Sgt. Bill Guarnere and Pvt. Babe Heffron's book with Epilogue by Frank John Hughes and Robin Laing]


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