Career
Ventimiglia had a recurring role as Dino Arbogast, an Organized Crime Control Bureau Chief for the New York City Police Department, on the American police procedural/drama series Blue Bloods on Columbia Broadcasting System. Ventimiglia has had parts in feature films such as Cop Land, Jesus" Son, The Iceman and Mickey Blue Eyes and has appeared in numerous television shows including Law & Order and New York City Police Department Blue. He also made a brief cameo in the made for television movie Gotti. In August, 2007, Ventimiglia and the David Amram quartet presented a musical and oral homage to sociologist C. Wright Mills and beat author Jack Kerouac.
They continued with a Kerouac show in Denmark in autumn of 2007.
Ventimiglia starred in the comedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead (2008), playing the role of Theo Horace. In 2008, he played a small role as a police officer in Notorious.
In 2011 he appeared as "Weinstein" in the film Flypaper. In 2011, he starred in a small indie film, PONIES. In 2012 he guest starred in the Columbia Broadcasting System short lived series Made in Jersey.
In 2012 he starred, as Humberto Delgado, the Portuguese film Operation Autumn, a film about General Humberto Delgado"s brutal assassination in Spain by the Portuguese fascists.
Ventimiglia was born in Ridgewood, Queens, and grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, graduating from Teaneck High School in 1981, where he played on the football team He is not related to the actor Milo Ventimiglia, who appeared on the television series Heroes and Gilmore Girls. In 2016, he played Harry Magarac (magarac=donkey in Serbian language) on the episode of Elementary television series, entitled Murder Ex Machina, first aired on January 21, 2016.