Narducci was born in Philadelphia in 1933 to Italian immigrants. Narducci became a soldier and driver for the Bruno crime family when he was young. After the death of Don Angelo Bruno at the hands of consigliere Antonio Caponigro, Peter Casella became the underboss of the family. However Narducci among others, believed Testa to be a mindless brute and a weak leader of the family. Narducci and Casella rebelled against him, placing a nail bomb under his house on March 15, 1981, killing him. His sons Frank, Jr. and Philip both later became soldiers in the Philadelphia crime family.