If you haven’t seen  PBS’s The Italian Americans documentary.  You should.  It is a perfect representation of the Pantoliano family history from Naples-area emigration, to US assimilation, to serving in WWII (against Italy), and finally achieving some fame.

The second & third parts of the documentary contend with the Italian experience in the US and how, until there was a new ethnicity lower on the totem pole, they were the bottom. And the stereotpyes and bigotry proliferated:

In some cases, there was early successes despite the prejudice: Ralph Fischkelta built several successful businesses in North Jersey, Peter Pantoliano became a Fire Chief. But there were others who, for whatever reason, needed to distance themselves from their obvious Italian heritage by changing their names.

So in addition to the Pantoliano name, we also have Pantlin and Paine. Peter Pantlin is the son of Patrick (“Pope”) and built a very successful real-estate development business in the south. Around 1954 (perhaps shortly after his father Anthony, “Squidgy” died) Fred Pantoliano became Fred Paine.

I do not bring this up to ostracize them; but to illustrate merely that they followed a much more widespread convention in de-Europeanizing their names, making it that much harder to track down.