Paul Sorvino

Sorvino, also known for portraying police sergeant Phil Cerreta on TV series Law & Order, had worked in film and television for more than 50 years.

I am heartbroken," his wife Dee Dee Sorvino wrote on social media. "He has taught me everything I know about acting," she said at the time, which brought him to tears. "He was the most wonderful father. Among his other high-profile roles, he was mob boss Eddie Valentine in The Rocketeer in 1991, and played former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger in Oliver Stone's 1995 movie, Nixon, about the disgraced ex-president Richard Nixon, portrayed by Anthony Hopkins. "I am completely devastated. Among Sorvino's other high-profile roles, he was a mob boss in The Rocketeer in 1991, and played former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger in Oliver Stone's 1995 movie, Nixon, about the disgraced ex-president Richard Nixon.

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.

The actor played Paul Cicero in the classic 1990 crime film alongside Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta, as well as playing Sergeant Phil Cerreta in the TV series ...

The Brooklyn-bred actor, who played mobster Paulie Cicero in Goodfellas, died of natural causes on Monday.

He appeared on film for the first time in Carl Reiner’s Where’s Poppa? in 1970. He dreamed of becoming an opera singer, performing first in hotels in the Catskills, but problems with asthma made him focus on acting. Paul Sorvino, the Tony-nominated actor who played mobster Paulie Cicero in Goodfellas, has died at age 83.

A would-be singing star, he found success in Hollywood playing a variety of roles, but they were often quiet, dangerous men, like Paulie Cicero in ...

he was George Segal’s movie-producer friend in “A Touch of Class” and a mysterious government agent in “The Day of the Dolphin.” Mr. Sorvino later played an egotistic, money-hungry evangelist with a Southern accent in the comedy “ Oh, God!” (1977) and God Himself in “The Devil’s Carnival” (2012) and its 2015 sequel. Most recently, in 2018, when the movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was on trial for criminal sexual acts — and Mira Sorvino had accused him of harassment — Mr. Sorvino predicted that Mr. Weinstein would die in jail. “Because if not, he has to meet me, and I will kill the [expletive deleted] — real simple,” Mr. Sorvino said in a widely aired video interview. He appeared next as a New Yorker robbed by a prostitute in “The Panic in Needle Park” (1972) but did not fall victim to the cops-and-gangsters stereotype right away. But in a half-century screen career, Mr. Sovino’s characters were often on the wrong side of the law. “Most of the time I was just another out-of-work actor who couldn’t get arrested,” he told The New York Times in 1972. The elder Mr. Sorvino, a robe-factory foreman, was born in Naples, Italy, and emigrated to New York with his parents in 1907. He made his film debut in “ Where’s Poppa?” (1970), a dark comedy directed by Carl Reiner, in a small role as a retirement-home owner. He had made his mark onstage as a very different but perhaps equally soulless character in “ That Championship Season” (1972), Jason Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning tragicomedy about the sad reunion of high school basketball players whose glory days are decades past. In the late 1950s, he began performing at Catskills resorts and charity events. That didn’t happen, he recalled, until one day when he was adjusting his necktie, looked in the mirror and saw something in his own eyes.

The actor played Paul Cicero in the classic 1990 crime film alongside Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta, as well as playing Sergeant Phil Cerreta in the TV series ...

She wrote on Twitter: “My father the great Paul Sorvino has passed. “He was the most wonderful father. I love him so much.

Specializing in playing cops and crooks, Sorvino was a mainstay in films and television.

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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.

The actor played Paul Cicero in the classic 1990 crime film alongside Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta, as well as playing Sergeant Phil Cerreta in the TV series ...

My heart is rent asunder- a life of love and joy and wisdom with him is over. I love him so much. My father the great Paul Sorvino has passed.

The actor played Paul Cicero in the classic 1990 crime film alongside Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta, as well as playing Sergeant Phil Cerreta in the TV series ...

She wrote on Twitter: “My father the great Paul Sorvino has passed. “He was the most wonderful father. I love him so much.

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.

The actor may be best known for “Goodfellas,” but he almost bailed on it because the character of the underboss Paulie Cicero was so difficult to pin down.

Sorvino is also memorable as Edelson, the commanding officer of the undercover cop Burns (Al Pacino) in William Friedkin’s “Cruising” (from 1980; rent or buy on major platforms). Assigning his underling to work the gay sex-club underworld of Manhattan in search of a killer, Edelson inquires into Burns’s sexual history with the most blunt question imaginable, not batting an eyelash. For another taste of the more voluble Sorvino, his turn as Curtis Mahoney, a federal agent posing as an investigative journalist in Mike Nichols’s much-maligned 1974 “The Day of the Dolphin” (available on Kino Now), is worth looking into. Later, overseeing elaborate dinners in prison, he has a special system for slicing garlic, and once his cellmate Henry (Liotta) enters bearing wine and Scotch, he proclaims, “Now we can eat.” Presiding over a celebration of Henry’s release from the joint, he’s Uncle Paulie. Henry and his merry men are either paying tribute to Paulie with a percentage of their ill-gotten gains or lying to his face. In the first place, he was a proud Italian American. A connoisseur of Italian culture, particularly food and music, he was not inclined to play a Mafioso. In addition, Sorvino, who died Monday at 83, was a voluble guy, and he liked playing voluble guys. Sorvino’s vision of Paulie was an incredibly nuanced portrayal of a man who, on the page, comes across as simple and as unpleasant as sudden death. Just don’t do it.” Without losing any of the character’s outer-borough intonations, Sorvino clips the words like he’s snapping necks. Much of “Goodfellas” (streaming on HBO Max) is devoted to how three underlings, played by Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro, did not stay in line. Vario, then, was a middle manager of mayhem. He scoffed at the idea of “choices,” insisting: “I found the guy and the guy made the choices.” Much is made in the early scenes of the movie about how most of the criminal’s directives were executed with a mere nod. When Paul Sorvino was offered the role of Paulie Cicero, the Queens-based mob underboss in Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas” (1990), he very much did not want to accept it.

Actress Mira Sorvino has led tributes to her father – the “talented and giving” Goodfellas star Paul Sorvino – who has died at age 83.

“And now I am so sad to read of his passing. She wrote on Twitter: “My father, the great Paul Sorvino has passed. My heart is rent asunder- a life of love and joy and wisdom with him is over. “He was the most wonderful father. I love him so much. My father the great Paul Sorvino has passed.

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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Actress Mira Sorvino has led tributes to her father – the “talented and giving” Goodfellas star Paul Sorvino – who has died at age 83.

“And now I am so sad to read of his passing. She wrote on Twitter: “My father, the great Paul Sorvino has passed. “He was the most wonderful father. Actor Brent Spiner also sent his condolences to Mira and her family following the news, describing Sorvino as “very talented” and “fun to be around”. I love him so much. “I am sending my love to Mira and the rest of the family.

Actress Mira Sorvino has led tributes to her father – the “talented and giving” Goodfellas star Paul Sorvino – who has died at age 83.

“And now I am so sad to read of his passing. “He was the most wonderful father. I lost my good friend Paul Sorvino, a true renaissance man. She wrote on Twitter: “My father, the great Paul Sorvino has passed. My heart is rent asunder- a life of love and joy and wisdom with him is over. I love him so much.

ACTRESS MIRA SORVINO Mira Sorvino has led tributes to her father – the “talented and giving” Goodfellas star Paul Sorvino – who has died at age 83.

“And now I am so sad to read of his passing. “He was the most wonderful father. She wrote on Twitter: “My father, the great Paul Sorvino has passed. My heart is rent asunder- a life of love and joy and wisdom with him is over. I love him so much. My father the great Paul Sorvino has passed.

Celebrities like Mira Sorvino, Forest Whitaker, and more post tributes to late actor Paul Sorvino.

This man also launched Paul Sorvino Foods to market a range of pasta sauces as well as being part owner of Janson-Beckett Cosmeceuticals. American actress Mira Sorvino, known for being an alumnus of Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion, tweeted about the passing of her father. Tragedy fell recently when actor Paul Sorvino passed away at the age of 83.