- Birth nameDavid Louis Scotti
- Often cast as a frustrated criminal, Dave was raised in New Jersey and began his acting career in high school at the age of sixteen. After graduation, he studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater, earned a BFA at New York University, and quickly made his professional stage debut in "I Hate Hamlet." After bit parts in film and television, he moved to Los Angeles and earned an MFA in acting at USC.
He scored a hit after starring in and co-writing the award-winning short film The Right Hook (2000), Dave then starred in the low-budget feature film Docs and Robbers (2004) and also played the recurring role of bad guy Vito Manzi on the daytime soap opera General Hospital (1963).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Walter Trousdale
- Son of medical writer and Harvard graduate Dr. Angelo Scotti.
- Won the ATA Jr. National Karate Championships when he was a teenager.
- Spent 4 months approaching and propositioning beautiful women in bars to prepare for his role in the short film The Right Hook (2000).
- Was fired from a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Los Angeles after he left his work station to have a conversation with Robert Duvall, who was waiting while his wife shopped. He said it was worth it.
- Is an obsessive collector of the 1973 series of children's stickers called Wacky Packages.
- Show me a healthy, psychologically stable person, and I'll show you a bad actor.
- For performances, it's better to swing for the fences and strike out, than bunt. Who wants to see a guy bunt?
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