Question: What role did the actor, who starred in the 1980 Italian crime-drama film directed by Fernando Di Leo play in the "The Cotton Club"?

Context articles: Kidnap Syndicate
Il Boss
Slaughter Hotel
Joe Dallesandro
The Cotton Club (film)
A Woman on Fire
Madness (1980 film)
Fernando Di Leo
Shoot First, Die Later
Blood and Diamonds

La città sconvolta: caccia spietata ai rapitori (internationally released as Kidnap Syndicate) is a 1975 Italian poliziottesco directed by Fernando Di Leo.
 Even being a minor work in the Di Leo's filmography, the film gained some critical attention for being an original re-interpretation of the "vigilante" subgenre.
Il Boss is a poliziottesco film written and directed by Fernando Di Leo in 1973.
 It is the final part of Di Leo's "Milieu Trilogy", also consisting of "Milano calibro 9" and "La mala ordina", both released in 1972.
Slaughter Hotel (Italian: La bestia uccide a sangue freddo and also known as "Asylum Erotica" and "Cold Blooded Beast") is a 1971 Italian giallo horror film directed by Fernando Di Leo and starring Klaus Kinski.
 The film follows a masked killer murdering the wealthy female inmates of a sanitorium.
 The building that was used as the mental hospital in this film was used several years earlier as the set for the 1966 giallo "The Murder Clinic".
Joseph Angelo D'Allesandro III (born December 31, 1948), better known as Joe Dallesandro, is an American actor and Warhol superstar.
 Having also crossed over into mainstream roles like mobster Lucky Luciano in "The Cotton Club", Dallesandro is generally considered to be the most famous male sex symbol of American underground films of the 20th century, as well as a sex symbol of gay subculture.
The Cotton Club is a 1984 American crime-drama film centered on a Harlem jazz club of the 1930s, the Cotton Club.
A Woman on Fire (Italian: "Brucia, ragazzo, brucia" , also known as "Burn, Boy, Burn") is a 1969 Italian erotic-drama film written and directed by Fernando Di Leo.
 It gained a great commercial success and launched the career of Di Leo as director.
Madness (Italian: "Vacanze per un massacro" ) is a 1980 Italian crime-drama film directed by Fernando Di Leo and starring Joe Dallesandro.
 A low-budget film, it was shot in just twelve days.
 It was first supposed to be directed by Mario Gariazzo.
 The film was the last film Dallesandro shot in Italy before returning to United States.
 The Luis Bacalov's musical score is mainly recycled from his scores for Di Leo's "Caliber 9" and Maurizio Lucidi's "The Designated Victim".
Fernando Di Leo (11 January 1932 – 2 December 2003) was an Italian film director and script writer born in San Ferdinando di Puglia, Italy.
 During his career from 1964 to 1985, Di Leo directed 20 films and was involved in the writing process in 43.
 His films influenced many popular contemporary directors, such as Quentin Tarantino and John Woo.
Il poliziotto è marcio (internationally released as Shoot First, Die Later) is a 1974 Italian poliziottesco-noir film directed by Fernando Di Leo.
 Di Leo reprises some elements of the novel "Rogue Cop" by William P. McGivern.
 Luc Merenda later starred in two other Di Leo's films, "Kidnap Syndicate" and "Nick the Sting".
Diamanti sporchi di sangue (internationally released as Blood and Diamonds) is a 1978 Italian poliziottesco-noir film directed by Fernando Di Leo.
 The film had the working title of "Roma Calibro 9" and it was originally planned to have Franco Gasparri, fresh from the success of the "Mark il poliziotto" film series, in the main role of Guido Mauri.