In the same interview, he marvelled at how Goodfellas had a "life of its own" and has only grown over time. The one physical thing he does do, when he goes after the guy who went after Karen - you know, most audiences, they actually like him for that." "It's really the other guys who are doing all the actual killings. "The thing about that movie, you know, Henry Hill isn't that edgy of a character," Liotta said in an interview in 2012. He, and Scorsese, had to fight for it though, with multiple auditions and pleas to the studio to cast the still relative unknown. His most iconic role, as real-life mobster Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas came shortly after. A few years later, he would get the memorable role of the ghost of Shoeless Joe Jackson in "Field of Dreams". The turn earned him a Golden Globe nomination. Liotta's first big film role was in Jonathan Demme's "Something Wild", as Melanie Griffith's character's hot-headed ex-convict husband, Ray. ( AP: Amazon Prime Video/Christopher Raphael)
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Ray Liotta in a scene from the series Hanna. After graduation, he got his first big break on the soap opera "Another World". The Newark, New Jersey, native was born in 1954 and adopted at age six months out of an orphanage by a township clerk and an auto parts owner.Īlthough he mostly grew up playing sports, including baseball, during his senior year of high school, the drama teacher at the school asked him if he wanted to be in a play, which he agreed to on a lark.Īnd it stuck: He'd go on to study acting at the University of Miami. He was dangerous, unpredictable, hilarious and generous with his praise for other actors. "The scenes we did together were among the all-time highlights of my acting career. "Working with him was one of the great joys of my career," Rogen tweeted. "A true legend of immense skill and grace."Īlessandro Nivola, who recently appeared with Liotta in The Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints of Newark wrote: "I feel so lucky to have squared off against this legend in one of his final roles." On Twitter he shared a tribute to "such a lovely, talented and hilarious person" with whom he made some of his favourite scenes. RIP.Seth Rogen acted with Liotta in the 2009 comedy Observe and Report. He was a friend, a Mentor, a force of nature that I was so grateful to have known & worked with. “Gregory Sierra will forever be with us,” Olmos wrote. “Miami Vice” star Edward James Olmos tweeted that he read news of Sierra’s death and wept. He had recurring roles in multiple television shows, including “Hill Street Blues,” “Miami Vice,” and “Murder, She Wrote,” and made appearances in a slew of other series. After school, he worked with the National Shakespeare Company and in the New York Shakespeare Festival before moving to Los Angeles, where he started getting bit parts in television and supporting roles in movies like “Beneath the Planet of the Apes,” “Getting Straight,” “Papillon” and “The Towering Inferno.” 25, 1937 in Spanish Harlem, Sierra attended the Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception, in Brooklyn. Gregory Sierra Walt Disney Television via Getty Imagesīorn on Jan. The episode, which ends in silence, was among the most memorable from the long-running series. Sierra also appeared as a radical Jewish vigilante in “Archie Is Branded,” a 1973 episode of CBS’ “All in the Family,” wherein someone paints a swastika on Archie’s door. Hudson Street,” a sitcom about a frantic emergency room, but it lasted just six episodes. He was 83.Ī New York native, Sierra’s breakthrough came when he was cast as Julio Fuentes, the Puerto Rican neighbor to Redd Foxx’s Fred Sanford on “Sanford and Son.”Īfter he left that series, Sierra played one of the original detectives working out of the diverse 12th Precinct in Greenwich Village on ABC’s “Barney Miller.” He was written out of the series after the second season to star in “A.E.S. Gregory Sierra, a longtime character actor who appeared in television shows and movies, most notably on “Barney Miller” and “Sanford and Son,” died Jan. Rapper FBG Cash, 31, reportedly dead in Chicago shooting Philip Baker Hall, ‘Boogie Nights’ and ‘Seinfeld’ star, dead at 90 Pokémon voice actor Billy Kametz, 35, dead after colon cancer diagnosis Nipsey Hussle’s accused killer yelled ‘You are through’ before shooting: prosecutors
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