Trivia

Originally attended college to become a Graphic Arts major. After seeing Martin Scorsese's film Mean Streets (1973), he was inspired to become a Film major instead. When the school informed him that he couldn't switch majors without repeating his first year's studies, he decided to drop out and ended up writing his first film, Wise Guys (1986), which took five years to get produced.

From Mamaroneck, New York, he moved to California with less than $800 in his pocket

Besides being a talented painter, he is also an accomplished saxophone player who was in both the marching band as well as a jazz ensemble in his hometown of Port Chester, New York.

Wrote a draft of an unproduced fictional Three Stooges movie in the early 80s, which involved the boys as pest exterminators who get pitted against a middle-eastern dictator named General Roberto "Bob" Alou, when they are mistaken for secret agents.

Son of George Gallo Sr.

He also paints landscapes in the style of the Pennsylvania Impressionists, has won the coveted Arts For The Parks Award in 1990, and has had three one-man exhibitions in New York City.