Armand Anthony Assante (born October 4, 1949) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as mobster John Gotti in the 1996 HBO television film Gotti, Nietzsche in When Nietzsche Wept and Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in 1982's I, the Jury.
Defense Attorney Arthur Kirkland finds himself in a crisis of conscious and ethics when he is forced to defend a judge in a rape case who could be guilty.