Pacino's long list of film credits includes Dog Day Afternoon, Scarface, Donnie Brasco and Carlito's Way.

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To be strictly rational about it, we should all have ourselves a very Donnie Brasco Christmas.

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For six years, he worked as an undercover agent using the name Donnie Brasco and managed to infiltrate one of the five big New York crime families - the Bonannos.

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Mr Lip, born Frank Anthony Vallelonga, made his film debut as a wedding guest in The Godfather and later appeared in successful gangster titles Goodfellas, Raging Bull and Donnie Brasco.

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