Tommy Vee(1951-2008)

An accent-free native of Bronx, N.Y., Tommy Liantonio's father was Italian and mother West Indian. He took acting classes and played bit parts in a number of New York theater productions, then came to Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1980 to work as a disc jockey at a Racine, Wisconsin radio station and sent for his wife Laura and two daughters. Soon he began working at two Kenosha stations and started getting voiceover work in radio and television ads and in made-for-TV movies through talent agents and his own promotional efforts to be a character actor with sizable roles. In regional TV commercials he was a truck driver in two regional spots for Chicago HMO and a truck driver in an ad for First Wisconsin Bank. A member of the Screen Actors Guild and a Jehovah's Witness, he plays six musical instruments, has done stand-up comedy, and sings.