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Tony Orlando
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Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis (born April 3, 1944), better known as Tony Orlando, is an Americanshow business professional, best known as the lead singer of the group Tony Or…
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Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis (born April 3, 1944), better known as Tony Orlando, is an Americanshow business professional, best known as the lead singer of the group Tony Orlando and Dawn in the early 1970s. Discovered by producer Don Kirshner, Orlando had songs on the charts in 1961 when he was 16, "Halfway to Paradise" and "Bless You". Orlando then became a producer himself, and at an early age was promoted to a vice-president position at CBS Records, where he was in charge of the April-Blackwood Music division. He sang under the name "Dawn" in the 1970s, and when the songs became hits, he went on tour and the group became "Tony Orlando and Dawn". They had several songs which were major hits including "Candida", "Knock Three Times", and "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree". The group hosted a variety program, "The Tony Orlando and Dawn Show" on CBS from 1974–76, and then broke up in 1978. Orlando then continued as a solo singer, performing in Las Vegas and Branson, Missouri.[1] Orlando has hosted the New York City portions of the MDA Labor Day Telethon on WWOR-TV since the 1980s but quit in 2011 in response to Jerry Lewis' firing from the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
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2025
Robert Shields: My Life as a Robot
Movie Self
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2023
Gone Before His Time: Freddie Prinze Sr.
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2023
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2017
Sandy Wexler
Movie Testimonial
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2016
Dice
TV show Self
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2012
That's My Boy
Movie Steve Spirou
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2005
Tony Orlando & Dawn: The Ultimate Collection
Movie Self
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2003
Las Vegas
TV show Tony Orlando
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2002
Waking Up in Reno
Movie Self
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2001
Oswald
TV show Sammy Starfish (voice)
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1996
A Christmas Card from Branson
Movie Himself
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1995
MADtv
TV show Self
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1990
The Kingdom Chums - Original Top Ten
Movie Christopher (voice)
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1984
The Cosby Show
TV show Tony Castillo
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1982
Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story
Movie Jose Ferrer
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1982
Lynda Carter: Street Life
Movie Self
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1981
300 Miles for Stephanie
Movie Alberto Rodriguez
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1980
Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters
TV show Self
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1976
A Star Is Born
Movie Self
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1976
The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1976
Movie Self
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1974
Tony Orlando and Dawn
TV show Self
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1974
Dinah!
TV show Self
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1974
Chico and the Man
TV show Tomas Garcia
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1973
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
TV show Self
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1961
The Mike Douglas Show
TV show Self - Co-Host
