Phil Cerretta, the partner of Chris Noth‘s Det. He played a founder of the American Communist Party in Warren Beatty‘s Reds (1981) and worked alongside the actor-director again in Dick Tracy (1990), Bulworth (1998) and Rules Don’t Apply (2016).Ī respected tenor who realized a dream when he performed for the New York Opera at Lincoln Center in 2006, the Brooklyn native also starred for a season as Det. Publicist Roger Neal said he died at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida.ĭuring a solid career that spanned a half-century, Sorvino portrayed James Caan‘s bookie in The Gambler (1974), Claire Danes‘ pushy father in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet (1996), Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in Oliver Stone‘s Nixon (1995) and a strung-out heroin addict in The Cooler (2003). Richard Franklin, 'Doctor Who' and 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' Actor, Dead at 87 I’m sending you love in the stars Dad as you ascend.” Wrote Mira on Twitter: “My heart is rent asunder - a life of love and joy and wisdom with him is over.

“Our hearts are broken, there will never be another Paul Sorvino, he was the love of my life and one of the greatest performers to ever grace the screen and stage,” she said. Sorvino, the father of Oscar-winning actress Mira Sorvino ( Mighty Aphrodite), died Monday of natural causes, his wife, Dee Dee, announced. Paul Sorvino, the burly character actor who made a career out of playing forceful types, most notably the coldhearted mobster Paulie Cicero in Martin Scorsese‘s GoodFellas, has died.

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