{"id":113593,"date":"2022-07-09T17:50:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T22:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=113593"},"modified":"2022-07-09T17:51:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T22:51:11","slug":"sopranos-actor-tony-sirico-dead-at-79-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=113593","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSopranos\u201d Actor Tony Sirico Dead at 79 &#8211; Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=113593\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-113595\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tony-sirico-gty-jt-220708_1657322273063_hpMain_16x9_1600-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tony-sirico-gty-jt-220708_1657322273063_hpMain_16x9_1600-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tony-sirico-gty-jt-220708_1657322273063_hpMain_16x9_1600.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Geoffrey Huchel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Actor Tony Sirico, who played wisecracking gangster Peter Paul \u201cPaulie Walnuts\u201d Gualteri on the HBO hit show THE SOPRANOS, passed away July 8, 2022 at an assisted living center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. No cause of death was given. He was 79.<\/p>\n<p>Sirico co-starred on THE SOPRANOS (1999-2007) throughout the series entire run, appearing in 76 episodes. Sirico is known for playing gangsters in several other films, including LOVE AND MONEY (1981), THE PICK-UP ARTIST (1987), HELLO, AGAIN (1987), GOODFELLAS (1990), BULLETS OVER BROADWAY (1994), MIGHTY APHRODITE (1995), GOTTI (1996), COP LAND (1997), MICKEY BLUE EYES (1999), and WONDER WHEEL (2017).<\/p>\n<p>His additional film and TV credits include KOJAK (1973-1978), DEFIANCE (1980), MIAMI VICE (1984-1989), INNOCENT BLOOD (1992), ROMEO IS BLEEDING (1993), DEAD PRESIDENTS (1995), EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU (1996), DECONSTRUCTING HARRY (1997), CELEBRITY (1998), MEDIUM (2005-2011), CHUCK (2007-2012), and CAF\u00c9 SOCIETY (2016).<\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report sends our condolences to Tony Sirico\u2019s family during their time of grief.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geoffrey Huchel Actor Tony Sirico, who played wisecracking gangster Peter Paul \u201cPaulie Walnuts\u201d Gualteri on the HBO hit show THE SOPRANOS, passed away July 8, 2022 at an assisted living center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. No cause of death was given. He was 79. Sirico co-starred on THE SOPRANOS (1999-2007) throughout the series entire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[29249],"class_list":["post-113593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-sopranos-actor-tony-sirico-dead-at-79-entertainment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113593"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}