 In 1984, he appeared in "Beverly Hills Cop" as Mikey Tandino, a friend of Axel Foley who is murdered.That same year he starred in "The Cotton Club" and played small-time hood Bugsy in Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in America".Russo's other big role was as a brutal rapist in the 1986 drama "Extremities", opposite Farrah Fawcett.