Vito Giusto Scozzari January 26 1918 June 5 1996 also known as Vito Scotti was an American character actor who played both dramatic and comedy roles on Broadway in films and later on television primarily from the late 1930s to the mid1990s He was known as a man of a thousand faces for his ability to assume so many divergent roles in more than 200 screen appearances in a career spanning 50 years and for his resourceful portrayals of various ethnic types Of Italian heritage he played everything from a Mexican bandit to a Russian doctor to a Japanese sailor to an Indian travel agent From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia