Tony De Nonno

Subjects of his documentaries have included Itzhak Perlman, Anne Akiko Meyers, and Antonio Meucci, as well as senior citizens, physically challenged persons, and family businesses in New York City. Many of his documentaries have aired on ABC, PBS, Bravo, and New York's WLIW. Meucci, in particular, had resonated with De Nonno in his filming of 1992's Antonio Meucci: Father of the Telephone. He would later advocate House Resolution 269 among the U.S. House of Representatives to honor Meucci, which passed on June 11, 2002.

From 1981, after filming It's One Family: Knock on Wood, he has offered public performances and workshops with a marionette of a knight based on the epic poem Orlando Furioso. De Nonno is a close friend of the film's subjects: the Manteo family of puppeteers versed in the marionette shows of Catania, Sicily. He has also worked as a Senior Security Officer at The New School in Manhattan.

Between 1970 and 1993, De Nonno has photographed a number of public figures including Muhammad Ali, Tina Turner, Cary Grant, David Bowie, Joan Baez, Bette Midler, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Stevie Wonder. He served as Eric Clapton's 1974 American tour photographer.

Since 1970, De Nonno has written, produced, and directed over 50 short films and documentaries. While studying at NYIT-Manhattan, De Nonno made his first films: El Fang-Dango, a spoof of Dracula, The Kiss of Death, a gangster-film spoof, and It's All In My Hands, a documentary on local shoemaker John Principe. It's All In My Hands was an end-of-year project that cost him $800 (~$4,800 in 2018). De Nonno recalls in an account on Folkstreams: "...Finnish TV acquired the rights to broadcast It's All in My Hands six times over a 2 year period-and paid me exactly $800."

Anthony Joseph De Nonno (born January 12, 1947) is an Italian-American filmmaker, photographer, puppeteer, historian, and speaker in humanities.

De Nonno was born in Brooklyn, New York to Antoinette (née Carifa) and Jerry De Nonno, two residents of Manhattan's Little Italy neighborhood. His grandparents, Giovanni and Angelina Carifa, owned and operated the Columbia Restaurant on Mulberry Street in Manhattan. His father, Jerry, was a sports columnist and horse racing handicapper who worked at the New York Post from 1927 to 1977. He wrote a daily column called "De Nonno's Picks," which highlighted racing odds at the Aqueduct and Belmont tracks. Former colleague and sports editor Vic Ziegel wrote about Jerry De Nonno in a 1997 remembrance: "He had [an index card] for every horse who ran in New York, squeezed into a half-dozen long cabinets that sat on his desk...De Nonno had a well-deserved reputation for picking longshots, which will happen when you don't have enough time to find the logical and boring even-money favorite."