Vito Corleone

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Vito Corleone (né Andolini) is a fictional character and a major character in Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather and the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's film trilogy. The titular "Godfather", Vito is portrayed by Marlon Brando in the 1972 film The Godfather, with Oreste Baldini portraying him as a child and Robert De Niro portraying him as a young man in The Godfather Part II (1974). An orphaned Italian immigrant from Sicily, Vito rises through the criminal underworld to become the head of the Corleone crime family. Vito and his wife, Carmela, have four children: three sons, Santino ("Sonny"), Fredo, and Michael ("Mike"), and a daughter, Constanzia ("Connie"). He also informally adopts Sonny's childhood friend, Tom Hagen, who later becomes the family's lawyer and consigliere. Following Vito's death, Michael succeeds him as don of the Corleone crime family. Vito oversees a criminal empire involved in gambling, bootlegging, and union corruption, while maintaining a public reputation...

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