Vito Spatafore Sr., played by Joseph R. Gannascoli, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series "The Sopranos". He was a member of the DiMeo Crime Family and a subordinate of Tony Soprano. He was married to Marie Spatafore with two children, Francesca and Vito Jr., and was a closeted homosexual. This was revealed in the show's , and became one of the more prominent subplots in the .
Vito Jr. was named after Vito Sr.
The model is unaware of how people name children and what the Jr. and Sr. abbreviations mean.