Vinny Vella [Courtesy of Paul Stone/Su-City Pictures East, LLC]
Actor Vinny Vella has died. According to a post on Vella’s personal Facebook page made presumably by a family member, Vella passed away late Wednesday, February 20. He was 71. View the heartfelt Facebook post below:
“We are saddened to report that Vinny Vella has passed and I’m sure that no one more saddened than himself. Vinny loved life from his family to his friends and fans he was easily one of the funniest, endearing actors to have ever graced the screen. Vinny also had integrity and pride rarely seen. Arguably the fastest on the draw, king of the comebacks. His verbal jousting was legendary but many know Vinny for his favorite saying – ‘Who’s better than you?’ Well Vinny, I think we all can agree on the answer to that, it was you, it always was you! We miss you my boy!”
A New York City native,...
Actor Vinny Vella has died. According to a post on Vella’s personal Facebook page made presumably by a family member, Vella passed away late Wednesday, February 20. He was 71. View the heartfelt Facebook post below:
“We are saddened to report that Vinny Vella has passed and I’m sure that no one more saddened than himself. Vinny loved life from his family to his friends and fans he was easily one of the funniest, endearing actors to have ever graced the screen. Vinny also had integrity and pride rarely seen. Arguably the fastest on the draw, king of the comebacks. His verbal jousting was legendary but many know Vinny for his favorite saying – ‘Who’s better than you?’ Well Vinny, I think we all can agree on the answer to that, it was you, it always was you! We miss you my boy!”
A New York City native,...
- 2/21/2019
- by Matt Bishop
- Age of the Nerd
Frank Albanese, the actor who played Tony Soprano's uncle Patrizio Blundetto on The Sopranos, died on Monday at the age of 84.
The boxer–turned-actor died in Staten Island, New York, after battling metastatic prostate cancer, a friend of Albanese told The New York Times.
A local mortuary confirmed the death to Deadline, which reports that Albanese died while in hospice care.
Although the actor was best known for his role on the highly acclaimed HBO series, he also appeared in gangster movies like Martin Scorsese's 1990 film Goodfellas as well as Dead Presidents in 1995, among several screen credits.
Albanese appeared...
The boxer–turned-actor died in Staten Island, New York, after battling metastatic prostate cancer, a friend of Albanese told The New York Times.
A local mortuary confirmed the death to Deadline, which reports that Albanese died while in hospice care.
Although the actor was best known for his role on the highly acclaimed HBO series, he also appeared in gangster movies like Martin Scorsese's 1990 film Goodfellas as well as Dead Presidents in 1995, among several screen credits.
Albanese appeared...
- 10/9/2015
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- People.com - TV Watch
Frank Albanese, who played Tony Soprano’s uncle Pat Blundetto in HBO’s The Sopranos, has passed away at the age of 84, The New York Times reports. Albanese died on Monday, Oct. 5, in Staten Island, N.Y. According to his friend Eddie Canlon, Albanese lost his battle to metastatic prostate cancer. Prior to becoming an actor, Albanese, who also appeared in the 1990 crime film Goodfellas, was a heavyweight prizefighter who trained under champion Rocky Graziano. After scar tissue developed on Albanese’s brain, Graziano helped Albanese secure his first [...]...
- 10/8/2015
- Us Weekly
Frank Albanese, a boxer-turned-actor who played Tony Soprano’s farm-owning “Uncle Pat” on The Sopranos and appeared in Goodfellas among other films, died Monday at a hospice on Staten Island, NY. He was 84. His death was confirmed by a local mortuary. A protégé of former middleweight champ Rocky Graziano, Albanese won more than a dozen fights before he career was cut short by a brain injury. Graziano eventually got him a bit role in the 1968 Kirk Douglas mafia pic The Brot…...
- 10/8/2015
- Deadline
Frank Albanese, a boxer-turned-actor who played Tony Soprano’s farm-owning “Uncle Pat” on The Sopranos and appeared in Goodfellas among other films, died Monday at a hospice on Staten Island, NY. He was 84. His death was confirmed by a local mortuary. A protégé of former middleweight champ Rocky Graziano, Albanese won more than a dozen fights before he career was cut short by a brain injury. Graziano eventually got him a bit role in the 1968 Kirk Douglas mafia pic The Brot…...
- 10/8/2015
- Deadline TV
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