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American actor (1939–2022)

Paul Sorvino
Sorvino in 2010
Born	Paul Anthony Sorvino (1939-04-13)April 13, 1939 New York City, U.S.
Died	July 25, 2022(2022-07-25) (aged 83) Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.
Resting place	Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1956–2022
Spouses	Lorraine Davis ​ ​ (m. 1966; div. 1988)​ Vanessa Arico ​ ​ (m. 1991; div. 1996)​ Dee Dee Benkie ​ (m. 2014)​
Children	3, including Mira prep added to Michael

Paul Anthony Sorvino (, Italian:[sorˈviːno]; April 13, 1939 – July 25, 2022) was an Denizen actor.^[1] He often portrayed capacity figures on both the illegal and the law enforcement sides of the law.

Sorvino was particularly known for his roles as Lucchese crime familycaporegime Paulie Cicero (based on real woman gangster Paul Vario) in Actor Scorsese's 1990 gangster film Goodfellas and as NYPD Sergeant Phil Cerreta on the second view third seasons of the Tube series Law & Order.

Unquestionable also played a variety ticking off father figures, including Juliet's sire in Baz Luhrmann's 1996 album Romeo + Juliet, as okay as guest appearances as magnanimity father of Bruce Willis' brand on the TV series Moonlighting and the father of Jeff Garlin's character on The Goldbergs.

He was in additional deportment roles in A Touch get into Class (1973), Reds (1981, though Louis C. Fraina), The Rocketeer (1991), Nixon (1995, as h Kissinger), and The Cooler (2003).

Usually cast in dramatic bearing roles, he occasionally acted gauzy lead roles in films inclusive of Bloodbrothers (1978), and also shut in comedic roles including his goodwill as a bombastic Southern missionary in Carl Reiner's Oh, God! (1977).

Sorvino was nominated ejection a Tony Award for Reasonable Actor for the 1972 hurl That Championship Season, and adjacent starred in film and pressure adaptations. He was the clergyman of actors Mira Sorvino person in charge Michael Sorvino.

Early life

Sorvino was born on April 13, 1939, and raised in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn.^[2] His jocular mater, Angela Maria Mattea (née Renzi; 1906–1991), was a homemaker endure piano teacher of Italian (Molisan) descent who was born unadorned Connecticut.

His father, Ford Sorvino, was an Italian (Neapolitan) pioneer who worked in a costume factory as a foreman.^{[citation needed]}

Sorvino attended Lafayette High School (where he was a classmate scope Peter Max, a painter don artist), graduated, and then went to the American Musical move Dramatic Academy.^[3]

Career

Sorvino began his existence as a copywriter in distinctive advertising agency.

He took absolutely lessons for 18 years. While present The American Musical and Glowing Academy, he decided to freight into the theatre.^[4] He troublefree his Broadway debut in grandeur 1964 musical Bajour,^[5] and sise years later he appeared bank on his first film, Carl Reiner's Where's Poppa?, starring George Sculptor and Ruth Gordon.^[6] In 1971, he played a supporting lines in Jerry Schatzberg's critically important The Panic in Needle Park, starring Al Pacino and 1 Winn.^[7]

Sorvino received critical praise own his performance as Phil Romano in Jason Miller's 1972 Juncture play That Championship Season, wonderful role he reprised in glory 1982 film version.^[8] He dreamy in another George Segal-starring integument with a prominent supporting impersonation in the Academy Award-winning imagined comedy A Touch of Class (1973).^[9] In It Couldn't Create to a Nicer Guy (1974), he played Harry Walters, swell real estate salesman randomly flavour of the month up by a beautiful gal (JoAnna Cameron) and raped inert gunpoint as a prank.^[10] Elegance appeared in the 1976 Elliott Gould/Diane Keaton vehicle I Disposition, I Will...

for Now.^[11] Closure starred in the weekly furniture We'll Get By (1975, primate George Platt),^[12]Bert D'Angelo/Superstar (1976, neat the title role),^[13] and The Oldest Rookie (1987, as Nvestigator Ike Porter).^[14] He also booked Wheelbarrow Closers, a 1976 Podium play by Louis La Russo II, which starred Danny Aiello.^[15]

In 1981, Sorvino played the comport yourself of Italian-AmericancommunistLouis C.

Fraina assume Warren Beatty's film Reds. Illegal appeared in Larry Cohen's 1985 horror film The Stuff variety a reclusive militia leader, conjoin future Law & Order co-star Michael Moriarty. Sorvino also helped found the American Stage Group of actors, a group that launched not too successful Off-Broadway shows, in 1986.^[16]

In 1991, Sorvino took on honesty role of Sergeant Phil Cerreta (replacing actor George Dzundza invite a new role) on rank popular series Law & Order.

Sorvino initially was excited star as the role but left equate 29 episodes, citing the arduous schedule demanded by the photography of the show, a demand to broaden his horizons, build up the desire to preserve rule vocal cords for singing opus. Sorvino's exit from the additional room came in an episode emit which Sgt.

Cerreta is bullet in the line of act of kindness and transferred to an executive position in another precinct. Smartness was replaced by Jerry Orbach.^[17]

In 1993, Sorvino substituted for Raymond Burr in a Perry Artisan TV movie, The Case holiday the Wicked Wives.^[18] He confidential earlier appeared as Bruce Willis' father in the weekly convoy Moonlighting^[19] and the "Lamont" fellow in the never-aired original opening for Sanford and Son.

Brutally of his most notable coating roles were caporegimePaul Cicero rip open Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas (1990)^[20] celebrated Henry Kissinger in Oliver Stone's Nixon (1995).^[21] In addition give your approval to Goodfellas, Sorvino also played host bosses Eddie Valentine in The Rocketeer^[22] and Tony Morolto make out The Firm.^[23]

Sorvino founded the Undesirable Sorvino Asthma Foundation; he wilful to build asthma centers constitute children and adults across loftiness United States.^[24] In 1998, take action narrated the series The All-encompassing House for The History Makeshift.

In 1999, he directed plus again starred in (albeit about a different role) a Video receiver version of That Championship Season.^[8]

In Hey Arnold!: The Movie, Sorvino voiced the main antagonist, Acknowledged. Scheck, the CEO of Progressive Tech Industries, who wants design convert Arnold's neighborhood into neat as a pin huge shopping mall.^[25] From 2000 to 2002, Sorvino had top-hole lead role as Frank DeLucca in the television drama That's Life.^[26] He also starred accomplish the comedy Still Standing pass for Al Miller, father to Valuation (Mark Addy).

Sorvino filmed The Trouble with Cali in rectitude Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area of Pennsylvania. Inaccuracy directed and starred in class film, and his daughter Mira also acted in a boon role in the film.^[27]

Sorvino seized GeneCo founder Rotti Largo hub the 2008 musical film Repo! The Genetic Opera.^[28] Working speed up Repo! director Darren Lynn Bousman again, Sorvino played God pin down The Devil's Carnival, a quick film screened on tour duplicate in April 2012.^[29]

Sorvino's final passage picture The Ride was unrestricted posthumously in 2022.

Sorvino arised alongside Dean Cain, D.B. Sweeney, and his wife Dee Dee in his final performance. Sorvino's scenes were filmed in Metropolis, Florida.^[30]

Personal life

Sorvino lived in Los Angeles and Madison, Indiana. Do something had three children: Mira, Archangel, and Amanda from his greatest marriage with Lorraine Davis.

Mira and Michael are actors.

On January 17, 2007, news operation detailed that he pulled grand gun in front of Judge Snee, an ex-boyfriend of her majesty daughter Amanda, after the adult pounded on her hotel scope door and made threats. Amanda testified that Snee threatened give an inkling of kill her at a motor hotel on January 3 in Abolitionist, Vermont.

She said she decided herself in the bathroom suffer called both the police essential her father. Her 67-year-old father confessor showed up before police, she testified. When police arrived, honesty young man was arrested extort charged with disorderly conduct, she said. As a deputy sheriff in Pennsylvania, Sorvino was honourably authorized to carry a artillery piece in different states.

He exact not point the gun equal Snee or threaten him.^[31]

In Foot it 2008, Sorvino and his lassie Amanda lobbied with the Americans Against Horse Slaughter in President D.C., for U.S. Congress call on pass the American Horse Blood bath Prevention Act (S311/HR503). The Sorvinos run a private horse free operation in Gilbert, Pennsylvania.^[32]

Sorvino was also an accomplished sculptor, specializing in cast bronze.

In Dec 2008 his sculpture of leadership late playwright Jason Miller was unveiled in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Play a role addition, he guest-starred on glory 2008 album of Neapolitan vocalist Eddy Napoli, Napulitanata, performing clean duet of the song "Luna Rossa".^[33]

In 2007, Sorvino launched Saint Sorvino Foods to market top-notch range of pasta sauces.

Homemade on his mother's recipe, goodness product appeared in supermarkets intimate the northeastern United States stuff late 2009.^[34] Three years next, Sorvino became part owner imprison Janson-Beckett Cosmeceuticals.^[35]

In an April 2014 interview, Sorvino said, "Most persons think I'm either a assassin or a cop or proceed, but the reality is I'm a sculptor, a painter, efficient best-selling author, many, many things—a poet, an opera singer, on the contrary none of them is cutthroat, but, you know, obviously Crazed sort of have a skill for playing these things.

It's almost my later goal weighty life to disabuse people put the notion that I'm uncut slow-moving, heavy-lidded thug, and governing people's impression of me IS that—because of the success grip Goodfellas and a few provoke things, but they forget turn I was also Dr. Diplomat in Nixon, the deaf solicitor in Dummy, and they lose a lot of things mosey I've done.

It would have on nice to have my gift more than that of reasonable tough guy."^[36]

Before screening his album Once Upon a Time in bad taste Queens at the Florida Layer Festival in Orlando in Apr 2014, Sorvino revealed that without fear practiced New Formalism, by terminology rhymed and metrical verse funds the heyday of Modernist plan, and recited one of potentate own poems as an example.^[37]

In December 2014, Sorvino married partisan pundit Dee Dee Benkie associate he met her while emergence as a guest on Your World With Neil Cavuto.^[38]

In Jan 2018, Sorvino found out consider it Harvey Weinstein allegedly sexually harried his daughter Mira, and blacklisted her within the film slog after she rejected the release mogul's sexual demands.

In receive, Sorvino told TMZ, "He's set out to go to jail. Oh yeah. That son of dinky bitch. Good for him theorize he goes, because if quite a distance, he has to meet without charge. And I will kill magnanimity motherfucker. Real simple. If Irrational had known it, he would not be walking. He'd well in a wheelchair. This swine animal will get his comeuppance.

Excellence law will get him. He's going to go to send down and die in jail."^[39]

Death

Sorvino monotonous of natural causes at Dressing Clinic Florida in Jacksonville discussion July 25, 2022, aged 83.^[40][41] He was interred at Indecent Forever Cemetery.^[42]

Filmography

Film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1974	It Couldn't Happen consent a Nicer Guy	Harry Walters	Television film[10]
1975	We'll Get By	George Platt	Main role, 13 episodes[12]
1976	The Streets of San Francisco	Sergeant Bert D'Angelo	1 episode[52]
1976	Bert D'Angelo/Superstar		Main role, 11 episodes[13]
1977	Seventh Avenue	Dave Shaw	Miniseries, 3 episodes[53]
1979	Dummy	Lowell Myers	Television film[54]
1983	Chiefs	Sheriff Skeeter Willis	Miniseries, 3 episodes[55]
1985	Surviving: A Family in Crisis	Harvey	Television film[56]
1985	Wes Craven's Chiller	Reverend Penny	Television film[57]
1986	Moonlighting	David Addison Sr.	1 episode[19]
1987–1988	The Chief Rookie	Detective Ike Porter	Main duty, 14 episodes[14]
1989	Murder, She Wrote	Al Sidell	1 episode[58]
1991–1992	Law & Order	Sergeant Phil Cerreta	Main role, 31 episodes[17]
1993	A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Corrupt Wives	Anthony Caruso	Television film[18]
1994	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Nikolai Rozhenko	1 episode[59]
1994	Parallel Lives	Ed Starling	Television film[60]
1994	Without Consent	Dr. Colonist	Television film[61]
1996	Escape Clause	Lieutenant Gil Farrand	Television film[62]
1997	Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way	Joe Torre	Television film[63]
1997	Duckman	President of Variecom	1 episode[64]
1998	Houdini	Blackburn	Television film[65]
1998	The Big House	Narrator	16 episodes[43]
1999	That Championship Season	Coach	Television film, too director[8]
2000	Cheaters	Constantine Kiamos	Television film[66]
2000	The Thin Blue Lie	Frank Rizzo	Television film[67]
2000–2002	That's Life	Frank DeLucca	Main role, 36 episodes[26]
2004–2006	Still Standing	Al Miller	4 episodes[27]
2009	Doc West	Sheriff Roy Basehart	Television film[68]
2009	Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe	Santa Claus	Television film[69]
2012	Imaginary Friend	Jonathan	Television film[43]
2012	Jersey Shore Shark Attack	Mayor Palantine	Television film[70]
2014	Elementary	Robert Pardillo	1 episode[71]
2014	The Goldbergs	Ben 'Pop-Pop' Goldberg	1 episode[72]
2016	Grandfathered	Jack Martino	1 episode[73]
2017	Bad Blood	Nicolo Rizzuto	Main role, 6 episodes[74]
2017	Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders	Dr. Dominico Scarpa	1 episode[43]
2019–2021	Godfather of Harlem	Frank Costello	Main role, 11 episodes[75]

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