who is don vito corleone?

Answer 1

-- the real or creation of "G---d Father!" -- hard to judge him by his name alone!

Answer 2

Vito Corleone is said to be a composite based on real mafia dons Joseph Bonanno, Frank Costello, and Vito Genovese. Puzo claimed to have used his own mother as a model for the character.

Note: According to "The Godfather" (both novel and film), Vito Corleone is born in 1887, although "The Godfather, Part II" states that he was born December 7, 1891

Answer 3

Vito Corleone (December 7, 1892 - June 25, 1955) (Born: Vito Andolini), aka 'The Godfather', is the fictional head of one of the five New York Mafia families in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather and its 1972 film adaptation. He was portrayed by Marlon Brando as an older man in The Godfather and by Robert De Niro as a younger man in The Godfather Part II. He is depicted as an ambitious Italian immigrant to Little Italy who builds a mafia empire, yet still loves his family. His youngest son, Michael Corleone becomes the Don upon his death. He has two other sons, Santino "Sonny" Corleone and Fredo Corleone, and a daughter, Connie Corleone. He also informally adopted another son, Tom Hagen, who grew up to become the Family's consigliere. Vito Corleone was loosley based on real-life gangster Lucky Luciano as well as other gangsters, many of whom were born in the village of Corleone

Answer 4

The Godfather ,of the movies fame.

Answer 5

from the godfather book

Answer 6

the godfather

Answer 7

the don

Answer 8

the godfather silly.

Answer 9

Vito Corleone (December 7, 1892 - June 25, 1955) (Born: Vito Andolini), aka 'The Godfather', is the fictional head of one of the five New York Mafia families in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather and its 1972 film adaptation. He was portrayed by Marlon Brando as an older man in The Godfather and by Robert De Niro as a younger man in The Godfather Part II. He is depicted as an ambitious Italian immigrant to Little Italy who builds a mafia empire, yet still loves his family. His youngest son, Michael Corleone becomes the Don upon his death. He has two other sons, Santino "Sonny" Corleone and Fredo Corleone, and a daughter, Connie Corleone. He also informally adopted another son, Tom Hagen, who grew up to become the Family's consigliere. Vito Corleone was loosley based on real-life gangster Lucky Luciano as well as other gangsters, many of whom were born in the village of Corleone.

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Biography
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

In 1901, his father, Antonio Andolini, was murdered by a Sicilian mob boss named Don Francesco Ciccio because he refused to pay tribute, considered an insult by the don. Vito's older brother, Paolo, swore revenge and disappeared into the mountains. Vito was the only male heir left to stand with his mother at the funeral of his father. However, during the funeral, Paolo, who had come to watch, was also murdered. Some time afterwards, Ciccio's henchmen came to the residence of the Andolinis to take Vito away and have him killed. Desperate, Signora Andolini took her son to see the mafia chieftain herself.

When she went to see Don Ciccio, she begged for her son's life to be spared, but Ciccio refused, reasoning that Vito would seek revenge as an adult. Upon Ciccio's refusal, Signora Andolini put a knife to his throat and told Vito to run. She was immediately killed by one of Ciccio's henchmen, but Vito ran from the residence and successfully evaded the henchmen sent after him. Later that night, he was secretly smuggled away, fleeing Sicily to seek refuge in America on a cargo ship full of immigrants. Unable to speak English, he was renamed on Ellis Island as Vito Corleone when the immigration clerks saw the tag pinned to his clothes labelled "Vito Andolini from Corleone" (in the book, he chose to be named Corleone).

Corleone was later adopted by the Abbandando family in New York, and he befriended Genco Abbandando, who later became like a brother to him. In the years to come, Corleone married and started a family. Corleone began working at Abbandando's grocery store, but lost the job, as an intimidated Abbandando was forced to employ Don Fanucci's nephew.

Corleone later met Peter Clemenza, who gave him an opportunity to obtain a rug for his home. So, both men went into the home of Clemenza's "friend," who was not home, and took his rug, almost being caught by a police officer.

Corleone soon learned to survive and prosper through petty crime and performing favors in return for loyalty. He committed his first murder, killing Don Fanucci, the neighborhood padrone, rumoured to be a member of the Black Hand, in 1919.

While he loved all of his children, he was proudest of Michael, a college graduate and decorated WWII veteran, and wished for him a life away from the bloody, treacherous world of the "family business", hoping that his son would attain a legitimate seat of political power.

As a young man, Corleone started an olive oil business, Genco Importers, with his friend Genco Abbandando. Over the years he used it as a legal front for his organized crime syndicate, while amassing a fortune with its illegal operations. During a journey with his family to his native Sicily in 1925, he avenged his murdered parents and brother by killing Don Ciccio and his henchmen.

By the early 1930's, Vito Corleone had established the Corleone Family along with Clemenza, Salvatore Tessio, and Abbandando. Genco Abbandando became the consigliere of the family.

While he oversaw a business founded on gambling, bootlegging, and murder, he was known as a kind, generous man who lived by a strict moral code of loyalty to friends and, above all, family. He tried to spread these values throughout the New York crime world; he disagreed with many of the vicious crimes carried out by gangs and so sought to control crime in New York by either consuming or eliminating rival gangs.

In 1945, Corleone was badly injured in an assassination attempt, provoked when he refused the request of Virgil Sollozzo to invest in a drug operation and use his political contacts for the operation's protection, sparking a chain of events that resulted in Sonny's murder and Michael's eventual ascension to the head of the family, which Vito never wanted for his favorite son.

He died of a heart attack on June 25, 1955, while playing with his grandson, Anthony.

Vito Corleone is said to be a composite based on real mafia dons Joseph Bonanno, Frank Costello, and Vito Genovese. Puzo claimed to have used his own mother as a model for the character.

Note: According to "The Godfather" (both novel and film), Vito Corleone is born in 1887, although "The Godfather, Part II" states that he was born December 7, 1891.

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Family
Carmella Corleone — Wife, played by Morgana King
Santino 'Sonny' Corleone — Eldest son; played by James Caan
Tom Hagen — informally adopted son, played by Robert Duvall

Answer 10

who is that

Answer 11

the godfather!!