Name
Willy DeVille
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1950-08-25
Deathday
2009-08-06 (59 years old)
Place of Birth
Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.
Biography
Willy DeVille, born William Paul Borsey Jr., was an American singer/songwriter and actor. During his thirty-five-year career, first with his band Mink DeVille (1974–1986) and later on his own, Deville created original songs rooted in traditional American musical styles.
A fourteen year old kid has just settled in on the roof of a building on MacDougal Street. We’re in the early sixties, New York. The West Village. Sounds of the raucous and throaty voice of Fred Neil, of Bob Dylan's unbridled folk hymns and of the electroshock guitar of Jimi Hendrix waft out of the clubs on the street. And the kid living on the roof, he takes it all in. Willy DeVille's introduction to music contains within it the true and complete character of an urban tale.
Known For
- 1986 Va Banque as Hustler
- 2024 Heaven Stood Still: The Incarnations of Willy DeVille as Self (archive footage)
- 2001 Born to Lose: The Last Rock and Roll Movie as Self
- 2006 Willy DeVille: Live in the Lowlands as Self
- 1997 Beautiful Losers as Self
- 2008 Mink DeVille: Live at Montreux 1982 as Self
- 1999 Cypress Edge as Alfred Waxman
- 1988 Homeboy as Moe's bodyguard
- 1996 Bullet as Willy Lookout
- 2002 Willy DeVille: The Berlin Concerts as Self
- 1990 Les Nuls, l'émission ( 1 episode ) as Self - Musical Guest
- 1995 Lo + plus ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1987 Le monde est à vous ( 1 episode ) as Self
