Paul Sorvino, “good boy” of cinema, died

Paul Sorvino, “good boy” of cinema, died

Paul Sorvino, whose most famous role was in the Martin Scorsese classic “Goodfellas” (“Good boys”), died yesterday at the age of 83, according to his family on social networks. In five decades of career, Sorvino added more than 100 appearances as an actor in film and television. He played Henry Kissinger in 1995 in Oliver Stone’s “Nixon”, but the role that established him was that of Paul Cicero, a character inspired by the mobster Paul Vario for the aforementioned “Goodfellas” (1990). On television, he acted in the 1990s in the police series “Law and Order”, and more recently participated in “Criminal Minds: Without Borders” and shared the lead with Forest Whitaker in “The Godfather of Harlem”. He also acted in four of the five films directed by Warren Beatty: “Dick Tracy”; “Reds”; “Bulworth” and “The exception to the rule”. An actor capable of appearing both in gangster films and in comedies, series and historical or experimental films, he was also directed by Barz Luhrman in his personal vision of “Romeo and Juliet”, by Joe Johnston in “Rocketeer: Rocket Man” and Brett Ratner in “Money Rules.”

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