During the 1990s, Nucci played characters who are unceremoniously killed off in three blockbuster films—Eraser, The Rock and Titanic (as Fabrizio De Rossi, Jack Dawson's Italian friend)—which were released within 20 months of each other between 1996 and 1997.
Elsewhere in film, he starred as Spider Bomboni in Book of Love (1990)[4] and as Petty Officer Danny Rivetti in the Gene Hackman-Denzel Washington thriller Crimson Tide (1995).
He played the roles of Benny Rodriguez in the straight-to-video film The Sandlot: Heading Home (2007) and a Port Authority police officer in World Trade Center (2006).
Nucci appeared as Gabriel Ortega on the CBS soap opera Falcon Crest from 1988 to 1989,[5] and as Vincent Sforza in the television miniseries Firestarter 2: Rekindled (2002).
[6] Nucci portrayed Pop, the father of main character Felix Funicello, in the 2014 Lifetime television movie Wishin' and Hopin'.