Paul Sorvino

Paul Anthony Sorvino (/sɔːrˈviːnoʊ/, Italian: [sorˈviːno]; April 13, 1939 – July 25, 2022) was an American actor, opera singer, businessman, writer, and sculptor. He often portrayed authority figures on both sides of the law and was known for his roles as Paulie Cicero (based on Paul Vario) in the 1990 gangster film Goodfellas, and NYPD Sergeant Phil Cerreta on the TV series Law & Order. He took on supporting roles in A Touch of Class, Reds, The Rocketeer, Nixon, and Romeo + Juliet. He was the father of actors Mira Sorvino and Michael Sorvino. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Sorvino, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Brooklyn, New York, USA, 1939-04-13

Died: 2022-07-25

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1965	Skyscraper		0
2	1970	Where’s Poppa?	Owner of Gus & Grace's Home	61
3	1971	The Panic in Needle Park	Samuels	68
4	1971	Cry Uncle!	Coughing Cop	45
5	1971	Made For Each Other	Gig's Father	50
6	1972	Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues	Cab Driver	40
7	1973	A Touch of Class	Walter Menkes	61
8	1973	The Day of the Dolphin	Curtis Mahoney	58
9	1974	King Lear	Gloucester	0
10	1974	Tell Me Where It Hurts	Joe	0
11	1974	The Gambler	Hips	67
12	1974	It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy	Harry Walters	10
13	1974	Shoot It Black, Shoot It Blue	Ring	60
14	1975	Angel and Big Joe		62
15	1976	I Will, I Will...For Now	Lou Springer	50
16	1977	Oh, God!	Reverend Willie Williams	65
17	1978	Bloodbrothers	Chubby De Coco	59
18	1978	Slow Dancing In The Big City	Lou Friedlander	60
19	1978	The Brink's Job	Jazz Maffie	60
20	1979	Dummy	Lowell Myers	85
21	1979	Lost and Found	Reilly	64
22	1980	Cruising	Capt. Edelson	66
23	1981	Reds	Louis Fraina	69
24	1982	Melanie	Walter	68
25	1982	I, the Jury	Detective Pat Chambers	57
26	1982	A Question of Honor	Carlo Danzie	70
27	1982	That Championship Season	Phil Romano	51
28	1983	Off the Wall	Warden Nicholas F. Castle	30
29	1984	My Mother's Secret Life	Max	70
30	1984	With Intent to Kill	Doyle Reinecker	0
31	1985	Surviving	Harvey	52
32	1985	Turk 182!	Himself	58
33	1985	Chiller	Reverend Penny	40
34	1985	The Stuff	Colonel Malcolm Grommett Spears	60
35	1986	Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter	Gino	0
36	1986	Betrayed by Innocence	Mike Vogel	55
37	1986	A Fine Mess	Tony Pazzo	47
38	1986	Very Close Quarters		0
39	1987	Almost Partners	Jack Wilder	0
40	1990	Dick Tracy	Lips Manlis	62
41	1990	Night of 100 Stars III	Self	40
42	1990	GoodFellas	Paul Cicero	85
43	1991	Age Isn't Everything	Max	20
44	1991	Don't Touch My Daughter	Lt. Willman	44
45	1991	The Rocketeer	Eddie Valentine	65
46	1992	The Last Mile	The Tenor	0
47	1993	The Firm	Tommy Morolto (uncredited)	67
48	1993	Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives	Anthony Caruso	68
49	1994	Parallel Lives	Ed Starling	58
50	1994	Backstreet Justice	Captain Phil Giarusso	30
51	1994	Without Consent	Dr. Winslow	70
52	1995	Cover Me	J.J. Davis	32
53	1995	Nixon	Henry Kissinger	69
54	1996	Dog Watch	Delgoti	58
55	1996	Love Is All There Is	Piero Malacici	54
56	1996	Escape Clause	Lt. Gil Farrand	46
57	1996	Romeo + Juliet	Fulgencio Capulet	68
58	1997	American Perfekt	Franck	61
59	1997	Money Talks	Guy Cipriani	60
60	1997	Most Wanted	CIA Deputy Director Kenny Rackmill	54
61	1997	Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way	Joe Torre	50
62	1998	Men with Guns	Horace Burke	33
63	1998	Bulworth	Graham Crockett	63
64	1998	Dead Broke	Harvey	0
65	1998	Knock Off	Harry Johanson	53
66	1998	Houdini	Blackburn	60
67	1999	Harlem Aria	Fabiano Grazzi	74
68	1999	That Championship Season	Coach	65
69	2000	Cheaters	Constantine Kiamos	63
70	2000	The Thin Blue Lie	Frank Rizzo	60
71	2001	Plan B	Joe Maloni	47
72	2001	The Amati Girls	Joe	25
73	2001	See Spot Run	Sonny Talia	60
74	2001	Perfume	Lorenzo Mancini	49
75	2001	Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored	Self	69
76	2001	Longshot	Laszlo Pryce	58
77	2001	Streghe verso nord	Gallio	51
78	2002	Ciao America	Antonio Primavera	100
79	2002	Hey Arnold! The Movie	Scheck (voice)	65
80	2003	Mafia Doctor	Nicola Dellarusso	45
81	2003	Mambo Italiano	Gino Barberini	60
82	2003	The Cooler	Buddy Stafford	67
83	2004	Mr. 3000	Gus Panas	53
84	2004	Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'	Self	0
85	2004	Goodnight, Joseph Parker	Charlie	60
86	2004	The Workaday Gangster	Self	0
87	2005	Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood		68
88	2006	Witness to 'Reds'	Self	60
89	2006	Mr. Fix It	Wally	49
90	2007	Exorcising 'Cruising'	Self (archive footage)	65
91	2007	The History of 'Cruising'	Self (archive footage)	65
92	2008	Last Hour	Maitre Steinfeld	38
93	2008	Carnera: The Walking Mountain	Ledudal	60
94	2008	Greetings from the Shore	Catch Turner	58
95	2008	Repo! The Genetic Opera	Rotti Largo	63
96	2009	Doc West	Roy Basehart	60
97	2009	Doc West II : Triggerman	Sheriff Roy Basehart	62
98	2009	The Wild Stallion	Nolan	61
99	2009	Santa Baby 2	Santa Claus	50
100	2011	Miller's Tale	Self	71
101	2011	Kill the Irishman	Tony Salerno	68
102	2011	Night Club	Himself	0
103	2011	God Don't Make the Laws	Lewis	51
104	2012	The Trouble with Cali	Ivan	30
105	2012	The Devil's Carnival	God	55
106	2012	Imaginary Friend	Jonathan	51
107	2012	For the Love of Money	Red Parker	45
108	2012	Jersey Shore Shark Attack	Mayor Palantine	48
109	2012	Divorce Invitation	Daniel Miller	45
110	2013	Last I Heard	Joe Scoleri	52
111	2013	How Sweet It Is	Big Mike	30
112	2013	4Closed	Bud	49
113	2013	Immigrant	Yeshiva Principal	0
114	2015	No Deposit	Alfie	28
115	2015	Careful What You Wish For	Sheriff Big Jack	61
116	2015	Sicilian Vampire	Jimmy Scambino	36
117	2015	Cold Deck	Chips	56
118	2015	Enzian: When the Lights Go Up	Self (archive footage)	0
119	2016	Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival	God	62
120	2016	Kidnapped in Romania	Alexandru Damian	35
121	2016	The Bandit Hound	Chief Burton	51
122	2016	Chasing Gold	Frank	0
123	2016	Detours	Joe DiMaria	50
124	2016	The Bronx Bull	Giuseppe LaMotta	50
125	2016	Executor	Father Antonio	53
126	2016	The Brooklyn Banker	Benny	48
127	2016	The Hybrids Family	The Count	62
128	2016	Rules Don't Apply	Vernon Scott	57
129	2016	A Winter Rose	Skippy	33
130	2017	Lost Cat Corona	Uncle Sam	58
131	2017	The Red Maple Leaf	Joseph Palermo	43
132	2017	Undercover Grandpa	Giovanni	56
133	2017	Price for Freedom	Shah of Iran	20
134	2018	Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game	Phil	64
135	2018	Papa	Danny	50
136	2018	Acts of Desperation	Chief Lassiter	50
137	2019	Beneath The Leaves	Captain Parker	43
138	2019	Bad Impulse	Lou Branch	50
139	2020	Most Guys Are Losers	Grandpa Paul	30
140	2021	The Birthday Cake	Uncle Carmine	52
141	2022	The Great American Heist	Cheech	0
142	2022	American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective	Self	20
143	2023	Pursued	Grandpa	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	The Oscars	Self	69
2	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee	46
3	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	46
4	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	51
5	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	74
6	1971	Great Performances	Gloucester	54
7	1972	The Streets of San Francisco	Sergeant Bert D'Angelo	70
8	1975	We'll Get By	George Platt	0
9	1976	Bert D'Angelo Superstar		50
10	1977	Seventh Avenue	Dave Shaw	50
11	1983	Chiefs	Sheriff Skeeter Willis	78
12	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Al Sidell	75
13	1985	Moonlighting	David Addison Sr.	75
14	1987	The Oldest Rookie	Det. Ike Porter	55
15	1987	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko	84
16	1990	Law & Order	Phil Cerreta	74
17	1994	Duckman		71
18	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
19	1998	The Big House		0
20	1999	The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn	Self - Guest	42
21	2000	That's Life	Frank DeLucca	70
22	2002	Still Standing	Al Miller	69
23	2004	Jack & Bobby		70
24	2004	The Tony Danza Show	Self	61
25	2005	The Apprentice: Martha Stewart		0
26	2006	L'onore e il rispetto	Beniamino	71
27	2012	Elementary	Robert Pardillo	76
28	2013	The Goldbergs	Ben 'Pop Pop' Goldberg	75
29	2014	Cosmos	Augustin Mouchot (voice)	85
30	2015	Celebrity Family Feud	Self	79
31	2015	Grandfathered	Jack Martino	66
32	2016	Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders	Dr. Dominico Scarpa	69
33	2016	Emigratis	Self	68
34	2017	Bad Blood	Nico Rizzuto Sr.	72
35	2019	Godfather of Harlem	Frank Costello	81
36	2020	Josh Gates Tonight	Self	78