Wednesday, August 13, passed away the actor, the musician and writer Frank Vincent, known for his roles in the films about the mafia, Martin Scorsese and cult television series «the Sopranos.»
The last minutes of his life, Vincent spent surrounded by his family at a hospital in new Jersey. Last week he suffered a heart attack and then open heart surgery — complications caused his death.
During his successful career that lasted 41 years, Vincent has become one of the most recognizable kingarturo. It is this role assigned to him after paintings by Martin Scorsese: «Casino», «raging bull» and «Goodfellas.»
With the actor, but rather with his voice, familiar not only movie fans, but gamers in the beginning of the two thousandth, he voiced mafia boss Salvatore Leone in the series of GTA games.
Vincent was born in 1939 in Massachusetts, and spent his childhood in Jersey city, new Jersey. He began his career as a musician, but once his friend, Joe Pesci, lucky enough to play in the crime drama «the Collector of death». After that, friends saw Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro. In total on the account of the deceased about three dozen roles.
On August 4, he celebrated his 78-th birthday.
