Sirico died at an assisted residing facility in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, stated his supervisor Bob McGowen. There was no quick info on the reason for dying.
An announcement from Sirico’s household confirmed the dying of Gennaro Anthony “Tony” Sirico “with nice unhappiness, however with unbelievable pleasure, love and an entire lot of fond reminiscences.”
McGowan, who represented Sirico for greater than twenty years, recalled him as “loyal and giving,” with a powerful philanthropic streak. That included serving to ex-soldiers’ causes, which hit house for the Military veteran, his supervisor stated.
Steven Van Zandt, who performed reverse Sirico as fellow mobster Silvio Dante on “The Sopranos,” saluted him on Twitter as “legendary.”
“A bigger than life character on and off display. Gonna miss you a large number my pal,” the actor and musician stated.
Michael Imperioli, who portrayed Christopher Moltisanti on “The Sopranos,” known as Sirico his “pricey pal, colleague and accomplice in crime.”
“Tony was like nobody else: he was as robust, as loyal and as huge hearted as anybody i’ve ever recognized,” Imperioli stated on Instagram.
Sirico was unconcerned about being forged in a string of unhealthy man roles, McGowan stated, most prominently that of Peter Paul “Paulie Walnuts” Gualtieri within the 1999-2007 run of the acclaimed HBO drama, starring James Gandolfini as mob boss Tony Soprano. (Gandolfini died in 2013 at age 51).
“He did not thoughts taking part in a mob man, however he would not play an informant,” or as Sirico put it, a “snitch,” McGowan stated.
Sirico, born July 29, 1942, in New York Metropolis, grew up within the Flatbush and Bensonhurst neighborhoods the place he stated “each man was attempting to show himself. You both needed to have a tattoo or a bullet gap.”
“I had each,” he informed the Los Angeles Occasions in a 1990 interview, calling himself “unstable” throughout that interval of his life. He was arrested repeatedly for prison offenses, he stated, and was in jail twice. In his final stint behind bars, within the Nineteen Seventies, he noticed a efficiency by a bunch of ex-convicts and caught the appearing bug.
“I watched ’em and I assumed, I can do this.’ I knew I wasn’t unhealthy trying. And I knew I had the (guts) to face up and (bull) individuals,” he informed the Occasions. “You get lots of follow in jail. I used to face up in entrance of those cold-blooded murderers and kidnapers – and make ’em chortle.”
Sirico additionally was forged exterior the gangster mould, taking part in law enforcement officials within the movies “Useless Presidents” and “Deconstructing Harry.” Amongst his different credit had been Woody Allen movies together with “Bullets over Broadway” and “Mighty Aphrodite,” and appearances on TV collection together with “Miami Vice” and voice roles on “Household Man” and “American Dad!”
Sirico is survived by daughter Joanne Sirico Bello; son Richard Sirico; his brother, Robert Sirico, a priest; and different kinfolk.
