Paul Sorvino

US actor Paul Sorvino, best known for playing Paulie Cicero in the 1990 mobster classic Goodfellas, has died at age 83. Roger Neal, his publicist, ...

He was the most wonderful father." "Because if not, he has to meet me, and I will kill [him]," he said. Sorvino acted in more than 50 films and dozens of TV shows.

Paul Sorvino, an imposing actor who specialised in playing crooks and cops like Paulie Cicero in Goodfellas and the NYPD sergeant Phil Cerreta on Law ...

But he wanted to be seen for more than what he was on screen and took particular pride in his singing. “The reality is I’m a sculptor, a painter, a best-selling author, many, many things — a poet, an opera singer, but none of them is gangster.... He was proud of his daughter and cried when she won the best supporting actress Oscar for Mighty Aphrodite in 1996. She was by his side when he died. In 1996, Paul Sorvino: An Evening of Song was broadcast on television as a part of a PBS fundraising campaign. He made his Broadway debut in 1964 in Bajour and his film debut in Carl Reiner’s Where’s Poppa? in 1970. “Most people think I’m either a gangster or a cop or something,” he said. We all cried.” Rob Reiner, who appeared in one of his father’s films with Sorvino, said he was sending love. Where have all the tenors gone?” He’d be in a wheelchair.” With his 6-foot-4-inch stature, Sorvino made an impactful presence no matter the medium. My heart is rent asunder- a life of love and joy and wisdom with him is over.

The actor, most famous for his role as Paulie Cicero in classic mob movie Goodfellas, worked in the film and television industry for more than 50 years.

Others include Goodfellas co-star Ray Liotta, Godfather star James Cann and Sopranos actor Tony Sirico. Sorvino died at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, of natural causes, a spokesperson for the actor confirmed. - He died at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, of natural causes

Actor Paul Sorvino, best known for his starring role as Paul Cicero in Goodfellas and the father of Oscar-winning actor Mira Sorvino, has died. He was 83.

And I looked in the mirror and literally jumped back a foot. A deadly soulless look in my eyes that scared me and was overwhelmingly threatening. “If I meet him on the street, he oughta hope that he goes to jail,” Sorvino told TMZ in 2018. And I looked to the heavens and said, ‘You’ve found it.’” I saw a look I’d never seen, something in my eyes that alarmed me. Born in Brooklyn in 1939, Sorvino attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York where he fell in love with theatre. I’m going to ruin this great man’s picture, and I’m going to ruin myself.’ He, being wise, said, ‘Call me tomorrow, and if necessary I will get you out.’ That son of a bitch, good for him if he goes, because if not, then he has to meet me, and I’ll kill that motherf**ker.” “My heart is rent asunder- a life of love and joy and wisdom with him is over. He’d be in a wheelchair. “My daughter is a wonderful person,” he said at the time. “Because if we come across [one another], I think he’ll be lying on the floor somehow, magically.

Paul Sorvino, the cop and crook of the silver screen best known for his roles in projects such as “Goodfellas” and “Law & Order,” died Monday at 83.

He once told the New York Times that he thought of himself “as a warrior-poet.” “Then I was going to fix my tie and I saw this guy,” Sorvino said of his own reflection in the mirror, surprising himself with his own lethal gaze. He starred alongside Al Pacino in “The Panic in Needle Park,” James Caan in “The Gambler,” and worked with Carl Reiner on “Where’s Poppa” and “Oh, God!.” Working consistently through the ’80s, Sorvino once again hit stardom with his role as Henry Kissinger in “Nixon” in 1995 and Fulgencio Capulet in Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet.” “Our hearts are broken,” Dee Dee Sorvino said in a statement. For his part, Sorvino didn’t see himself quite that way. Throughout his career, the Brooklyn native was an imposing presence on film and stage.

Character actor Paul Sorvino, best known for Goodfellas and Law & Order, has died.

Sorvino was born in Brooklyn to Italian American and originally aimed to become an opera singer. My heart is rent asunder – a life of love and joy and wisdom with him is over. His wife, DeeDee Sorvino, posted on Instagram, saying “I am completely devastated.

Paul Sorvino was overcome with emotion when his daughter won the Best Supporting Actress Award.

“From Baker’s Wife on Bway to Shakespeare in the Park to all the incredible film/tv roles - he was magnificent in all,” Alexander added. On Twitter, Seinfeld star Jason Alexander wrote: “The amazing Paul Sorvino has passed.” “Sending my heartfelt sympathies on the loss of your dad, the great Paul Sorvino,” Alec Baldwin wrote. “I’m sending you love in the stars Dad as you ascend.” “My father the great Paul Sorvino has passed,” she wrote. The love of my life and the most wonderful man who has ever lived is gone,” Dee Dee Sorvino wrote on Twitter.

Actor Paul Sorvino died Monday. He was known for his role as Paulie in Martin Scorcese's gangster epic, "Goodfellas." He was 83 years old.

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The 'Goodfellas' star gets emotional over his daughter's tribute in a clip that's resurfaced following his death this week.

After his passing, Mira paid tribute to Paul—who is also father to her siblings Michael and Amanda—on Twitter. “My father the great Paul Sorvino has passed. When asked about Weinstein’s alleged abuse of his daughter, Paul didn’t mince words, telling TMZ in 2018, “He’s going to go to jail. In the years following her win, Mira has been open about being blacklisted by Harvey Weinstein after she rejected his sexual advances.

Forget the horse's head. Forget “I know it was you, Fredo”. The most gangster moment in gangster film history came from Paul Sorvino in Goodfellas.

There is a great contrast to the scene in Goodfella's final act when Hill unravels over the course of a manic, paranoid day in which he tries to not just offload stolen silencers, pick up his brother and cut some drugs but timing the preparation of an intricate family meal. And just like the code of omertà that – in theory at least – helps keep them out of jail, food preparation is ritualistic and follows strict rules. That’s why the razor blade is so memorable: it represents discipline, care and the correct way of doing things. “Paulie did the prep-work," Hill tells us, "and he had this wonderful system for doing the garlic. Forget mob bosses getting whacked to "House of the Rising Sun" in Casino, or Robert De Niro’s Al Capone delivering an ode to baseball in The Untouchables. Forget, even, the FBI agents discussing the meaning of ‘fuggedaboutit in Donny Brasco. If you're looking for an iconic mafia movie scene, one that encapsulates everything that is great about the genre and why we love it, none holds a candle – or, for that matter, a razor blade – to Goodfella’s prison dinner scene. Red and white wine.

Sure, Martin Scorsese's stone-cold classic from 1990 might be Sorvino's most memorable performance, but spending all one's words on just that one film (no ...

Sorvino was an actor of physical and heft and command. I also have a soft spot for I, The Jury, one of the sleaziest neo-noirs from that decade (which is really saying something), in which he played across from an overheated Armand Assante as Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, and a frequently underclothed Barbara Carrera. It ain’t art, but it surely is something. Sydney Pollack used his recent GoodFellas mobster past to excellent effect in a cameo near the end of the Tom Cruise blockbuster, The Firm. I also dearly loved his work as Henry Kissinger in Oliver Stone’s Nixon, in which he played the polarizing former secretary of state as if he were born in the man’s shoes. Sorvino became a quick staple of the auteur era of the ‘70s, turning up in such notable films as The Panic in Needle Park, A Touch of Class, The Gambler, Oh God!, and Bloodbrothers. The last of those films is my first memory of him. One of the gifts that I thought Sorvino had in great abundance was the ability to go from charming to threatening. Where does one even begin with Paul Sorvino? Leaning into GoodFellas is the most obvious point of entry, yet how can we ignore the fact that the man’s career covered six decades and a whopping 172 credits?