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Originally his character from the Godfather films was supposed to be used in place of Joe Montegna's character in that film. That would have been a very small character getting a big role in the sequel. His untimely death prevented all of that though.
Joe Montengna probably did a better job tbh.
My unprovable prediction is that Spinell would have done better than Mantegna, though I enjoyed Mantegna's performance. The Godfather series was kind of cursed in that way. When Castellano wasn't involved in Part 2, that opened the door for Michael V. Gazzo (no relation to the fictional character Tony Gazzo), and that resulted in a fantastic character and performance.
Unfortunately, nothing good came of Robert Duvall abstaining from Part 3. Can't even blame George Hamilton. His role was written down to nothing. He was practically an extra.
Motivated Spinell with a good script and good director was hard to top.
Crazy Spinell with no budget making one of his weird passion projects, not so much.
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