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Vito Corleone
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fictional character from Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather
Key facts
- First appearance
- The Godfather
- Last appearance
- The Family Corleone
- Created by
- Mario Puzo
- Portrayed by
- Marlon Brando (age 53–63) , Robert De Niro (age 25–30) , Oreste Baldini (child)
- Full name
- Vito Andolini Corleone
- Gender
- Male
- Title s
- Godfather , Don
- Occupation
- Olive oil importer, Crime boss
- Affiliation
- Corleone family
- Family
- Antonio Andolini (father), Paolo Andolini (brother), Stefano Andolini (cousin)
- Spouse
- Carmela Corleone (m. 1915–1955)
- Children
- Santino "Sonny" Corleone (1916–1946) Thomas "Tom" Hagen (1916–1978/1981) (adopted son) Frederico "Fredo" Corleone (1918–1959) Michael Corleone (1920–1997) Constanzia "Connie" Corleone (1922–?)
- Religion
- Roman Catholicism
- Nationality
- Italian, American
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Given name
- Vito
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Sicily
- Spouse
- Carmela Corleone
- Child
- Tom Hagen
- Occupation
- crime boss
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Family
- Corleone family
- Creator
- Mario Puzo
- Performer
- Robert De Niro
- Image
- Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone.png
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- enemy
- Emilio Barzini
- date of birth
- 1891-12-07
- date of death
- 1955-07-28
- inspired by
- Joe Profaci
- catchphrase
- I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse
- present in work
- The Godfather II
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Encyclopedic overview
Vito Corleone (né Andolini) is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather and in the first two of Francis Ford Coppola's film trilogy. Vito is originally portrayed by Marlon Brando in the 1972 film The Godfather, and later by Oreste Baldini as a boy and by Robert De Niro as a young man in The Godfather Part II (1974). He is an orphaned Italian (Sicilian) immigrant who builds a Mafia empire.
He and his wife Carmela have four children: three sons, Santino ("Sonny"), Frederico ("Fredo") and Michael ("Mike"), and one daughter, Constanzia ("Connie"). Vito informally adopts Sonny's friend, Tom Hagen, who becomes his lawyer and consigliere. Upon Vito's death, Michael succeeds him as Don of the Corleone crime family.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vito Corleone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.