Luigi Vercotti is a fictional character from the TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus, portrayed by Michael Palin. Vercotti appears in five episodes, three in series one and two in series two. He is portrayed as an East End gangster, presumably with ties to the Sicilian Mafia, and is always seen wearing a mustache, sunglasses and a pin-stripe suit. In the second series, he has a scar running down his left cheek.