American star Robert Davi endorses Padre Pio foundation

Performing in Long Island, August 2013 - Nancy Knapp Wiki image

Film star Robert Davi has become a Goodwill Ambassador of the Saint Pio Foundation.

Davi is an actor, singer, writer, and director. Over the course of his career, he has performed in more than 130 films. He has played the roles of main villain and drug lord Franz Sanchez in the 1989 James Bond film License to Kill, FBI Special Agent Bailey Malone in the NBC television series Profiler, as Vietnam veteran and Special Agent Johnson in Die Hard, the opera-singing heavy Jake Fratelli in The Goonies, Hans Zarba in Son of the Pink Panther and Al Torres in Showgirls.

Classically trained as a singer, Davi launched his professional singing career in 2011. His first album, Davis Sings Sinatra -- On The Road To Romance, hit #6 on the Billboard jazz charts.

In a short video, Davi describes how he attributes his own recovery from a serious illness as a child to the intercession of Padre Pio, who his family contacted in Italy. He says in the film: "..through my life, he has been a guide, a light, and I hope he can do the same for all of you out there."

"I am very grateful that actor and singer Robert Davi has accepted our invitation to become a Goodwill Ambassador of the Saint Pio Foundation. Undoubtedly, his own experience of being miraculously healed by Padre Pio will inspire many who need healing from this most beloved said" said President and CEO Luciano Lamonarca.

Watch Robert Davi here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULZBmYSi_u0

Read more about the St Pio Foundation: www.saintpiofoundation.org/