- Wanted to study acting on the G.I. Bill, but his counselors persuaded him to go to college instead. He did, but dropped out due to boredom.
- His friend, Marlon Brando, promised him a job as his stand-in on the movie Guys and Dolls (1955), but then gave the position to someone else he knew. Instead, Fiore was hired as an extra, which was a better-paying position.
- Fiore admitted to being a drug addict in the 1940s, the 1950s and for a time in the 1960s. He believed that his friendship with Marlon Brando sputtered out in the 1960s due to Brando's eccentricities, not accepting the idea that Brando had to cool his relationship with a drug user due to his ongoing custody fights over his son Christian with his ex-wife Anna Kashfi.
- He claimed credit for inspiring the great acting in one of cinema's most famous scenes in "Bud: The Brando I Knew," his memoir of his friendship with Marlon Brando. Fiore claimed he helped Marlon pinpoint the problem with the "I coulda been a contender" dialogue between Brando's character Terry Malloy, and his brother, Charley (Rod Steiger) in "On the Waterfront" (1954), as written by Bud Schulberg. Brando was dissatisfied with the scene, according to Fiore, but didn't know why. Fiore claims that it was he himself who came up with the key idea behind the scene, which is that Terry feels disbelief and disappointment with his brother rather than fear.
- Attended Erwin Piscator's acting workshop at the New School in New York City during World War II. His fellow classmates included Marlon Brando and Elaine Stritch.
- Worked with Marlon Brando as a stand-in, extra or assistant on x films: On the Waterfront (1954), Guys and Dolls (1955), Sayonara (1957), The Young Lions (1958) and One-Eyed Jacks (1961).
- Was good friends with James Baldwin, with whom he attempted to adapt Ice Berg Slim's novel "Pimp" into a film script in the 1960s.
- Writing of his experience developing and working on the movie One-Eyed Jacks (1961), Fiore said that the firing of Stanley Kubrick by Marlon Brando who went on to direct the film) perhaps was inevitable as there was only room for one "genius" on the picture.
- Helped develop and write the script for the movie One-Eyed Jacks (1961). Fiore petitioned the Screen Writers Guild for a writing credit for his work on the picture, but was turned down.
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