Veteran actor Cioffi has appeared on television and in films. He may be best-remembered for his roles as Tom Cruise's blue-collar widower father in Der richtige Dreh (1983), as revenge-seeking Ernesto Toscano on NBC's soap Zeit der Sehnsucht (1965), and, for those whose memories go a bit further back, as the killer stalking Jane Fonda in the thriller Klute (1971), for which she won her first Academy Award.
