Actor Tony Sirico passed away last Friday, July 8, three weeks shy of his eightieth birthday. His most iconic character, however, will endure forever. Long before giving life and soul to Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri in “The Sopranos,” Sirico led a life disturbingly similar to the characters he would play so much throughout his career, even being accused of crimes such as extortion, robbery and possession of a gun, serving time in the notorious Sing Sing prison. It was there, during a visit from a group of ex-convict actors, that Sirico became interested in the possibilities of acting, enrolling in classes and beginning his path in the world of acting. show business to his release.
In a career that can be described as homogeneous, he played some type of mafia figure more than forty times, changing sporadically with a corrupt police officer. In his own words in an interview with Larry King “I don’t care, that’s what my mortgage pays.” He worked with Scorsese on the classic “All Good Guys” (1990) and with Woody Allen more than a handful of times (“Bullets On Broadway,” 1994, “Mighty Aphrodite,” 1995, “Everybody Says I Love,” 1996, ” Faces of Harry”, from 1997, “Celebrities”, from 1998, “Café Society”, from 2016, and “Ferris Wheel”, from 2017) but it is with David Chase that he builds his most memorable mobster.
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Source: Observadora
