Pat Renella

Who was Pat Renella?

Pat Renella was an American actor. Of Italian descent, his motion picture debut was as an engineer in the space drama X-15 starring David McLean and Charles Bronson.

Renella acted in the stage play Bullfight, which opened at the Coronet Repertory Theatre on North La Cienega in West Hollywood on November 17, 1961.

Although there is not much written about him in the Los Angeles Times of the day, he was a working actor, mostly playing small parts as gangster types and hoods.

After playing an uncredited part as a man in the movie The Silencers starring Dean Martin and Stella Stevens, with Victor Buono, Renella had an uncredited small part in Riot on Sunset Strip starring Aldo Ray. He then played the role as Claude Sadi in Dayton's Devils starring Rory Calhoun, Leslie Nielsen, and Lainie Kazan. That same year, Renella played Johnny Ross, a Mafia supposed informant scheduled to testify in San Francisco, in Bullitt starring Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, and Jacqueline Bisset.