Question: What role did this Italian-American stage, film, and television actor who appeared in "House of Pleasure for Women" play in the movie "Death Wish" (1974)?

Context articles: The Stone Killer
Death Wish (1974 film)
Death Wish V: The Face of Death
House of Pleasure for Women
Eli Roth
Vincent Gardenia
Death Wish (soundtrack)
Brian Garfield
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
Death Wish II

The Stone Killer is a 1973 action thriller film starring Charles Bronson and directed by Michael Winner.
 It came out in between "The Mechanic" and "Death Wish", all three of which teamed up actor/director Bronson and Winner.
 Norman Fell and John Ritter appear as cops in this film, not too long before the TV series "Three's Company".
 Character actor Stuart Margolin plays a significant role; he also appeared in "Death Wish".
Death Wish is a 1974 American vigilante action film, loosely based on the 1972 novel of the same name by Brian Garfield.
 The film was directed by Michael Winner and stars Charles Bronson as Paul Kersey, a man who becomes a vigilante after his wife is murdered and his daughter sexually assaulted during a home invasion.
 It was the first of the "Death Wish" film franchise.
Death Wish V: The Face of Death is a 1994 action crime film and the fifth and final installment in the "Death Wish" series.
 It features Charles Bronson, who reprises his role as Paul Kersey in his final theatrical starring role.
 In the film, Kersey battles mobsters as he tries to protect his girlfriend (played by Lesley-Anne Down) from her ex-husband, mob boss Tommy O'Shea (Michael Parks).
House of Pleasure for Women (Italian: Bordella ) is a 1976 satirical comedy film written and directed by Pupi Avati and starring Gigi Proietti, Christian De Sica, Al Lettieri, Gianni Cavina and Vincent Gardenia.
Eli Raphael Roth (born April 18, 1972) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor.
 As a director and producer, he is most closely associated with the horror genre, first coming to prominence by directing the 2005 film "Hostel" and its 2007 sequel, "".
 As an actor, his most prominent role was as Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz in Quentin Tarantino's war film "Inglourious Basterds" for which he won both a SAG Award (Best Ensemble) and a BFCA Critic's Choice Award (Best Acting Ensemble).
 Journalists have included him in a group of filmmakers dubbed the Splat Pack for their explicitly violent and bloody horror films.
 In 2013, Roth received the Visionary Award for his contributions to horror, at the Stanley Film Festival.
 His most recent directorial effort was the 2015 erotic horror film "Knock Knock".
 His next project is the vigilante action film "Death Wish", a remake of the 1974 original.
Vincent Gardenia (born Vincenzo Scognamiglio; January 7, 1920 – December 9, 1992) was an Italian-American stage, film, and television actor.
 He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, first for "Bang the Drum Slowly" (1973) and again for "Moonstruck" (1987).
 He also portrayed Det. Frank Ochoa in "Death Wish" (1974) and its 1982 sequel, as well as Mr. Mushnik in the musical film adaptation of "Little Shop of Horrors" (1986).
Death Wish is a soundtrack album by Herbie Hancock featuring music composed for Dino De Laurentiis' film "Death Wish" released on October 11, 1974 on Columbia Records.
Brian Francis Wynne Garfield (born January 26, 1939) is an American novelist and screenwriter.
 He wrote his first published book at the age of eighteen and wrote several novels under such pen names as "Frank Wynne" and "'Brian Wynne" before gaining prominence when his book "Hopscotch" (1975) won the 1976 Edgar Award for Best Novel.
 He is best known for his 1972 novel "Death Wish", which was adapted for the 1974 film of the same title, followed by four sequels, and an upcoming remake.
 His follow-up 1975 sequel to "Death Wish", "Death Sentence", was very loosely adapted into the 2007 film of the same name; it had an entirely different storyline, but with the novel's same look on vigilantism.
 Garfield is also the author of "The Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians", which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History.
 Garfield's latest book, published in 2007, is "Meinertzhagen", the biography of controversial British intelligence officer Richard Meinertzhagen.
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown is an American 1987 action crime film, and the fourth installment in the "Death Wish" film series.
 The film was directed by J. Lee Thompson, and features Charles Bronson, who reprises his leading role as Paul Kersey.
 In the film, Kersey is once again forced to become a vigilante after his girlfriend's daughter dies of a drug overdose.
 He is recruited by tabloid owner Nathan White (John P. Ryan) to take down various crime figures of the Los Angeles drug trade.
Death Wish II is a 1982 crime thriller action film directed by Michael Winner.
 It is the first of four sequels to the 1974 film "Death Wish".
 In "Death Wish II", architect Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) moves to Los Angeles with his daughter (Robin Sherwood).
 After his daughter is murdered at the hands of several gang members, Kersey is once again forced to become a vigilante.
 Unlike the original, in which he hunts down every criminal he encounters, Kersey only pursues his family's attackers.
 The sequel makes a complete breakaway from the Brian Garfield novels "Death Wish" and "Death Sentence," redefining the Paul Kersey character.