James Gandolfini
Actor
Birth Name: James Roberto Gandolfini
Birth Date: September 18, 1961
Death Date: June 19, 2013
Birth Place: Westwood, New Jersey
An unlikely leading man and even more unlikely sex symbol, James Gandolfini was touted as both after his star-making portrayal of mobster Tony Soprano, a family man undergoing a mid-life crisis on the hit HBO drama, "The Sopranos" (1999-2007). Although he came to an acting career later in life, he was already a well-respected character player with roles as a hitman in "True Romance" (1993), a bearded stuntman and low-level henchman in "Get Shorty" (1995), and a drunkenly abusive neighbor in "She's So Lovely" (1997). Gandolfini made his television debut as Juror #6 in the remake of "12 Angry Men" (Showtime, 1997), while landing supporting roles in high-profile films like "A Civil Action" (1998) and "8mm" (1999). But it was "The Sopranos" that truly launched his career and led to a wider range of leading roles, like playing a sensitive hitman in "The Mexican" (2001), a cheating husband in "The Man Who Wasn't There" (2001) and reprising his "Get Shorty" role for "Be Cool" (2005). When "The Sopranos" went off the air with a literal bang in 2007, Gandolfini opened up to a bigger range of projects: interviewing disabled Iraq War veterans in "Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq" (HBO, 2007), winning a Tony for his performance in "God of Carnage" (2009) and playing man grieving the loss of his daughter in the indie drama "Welcome to the Rileys" (2010), which underscored Gandolfini's skill in a wide range of mediums. He died unexpectedly in 2013 at only 51 years of age.
Credits
Shooting the Sopranos
Végsebesség
The Night OfStream
The DropStream
The Making Of: Enough Said
Enough SaidStream
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Nicky Deuce
Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together
Nicky Deuce
Ograblenie kazino
Hemingway & Gellhorn
Killing Them SoftlyStream
Not Fade Away
Zero Dark ThirtyStream
Cinema Verite
Down the Shore
Violet & Daisy
Wartorn 1861-2010
Mint Julep
Welcome to the Rileys
The Taking of Pelham 123Stream
Where the Wild Things AreStream
In the LoopStream
Stories USA
Lonely Hearts
All the King's MenStream
Be CoolStream
Romance & Cigarettes
Stories of Lost Souls
Surviving ChristmasStream
The MexicanStream
The Man Who Wasn't ThereStream
The Last CastleStream
A Whole New Day
The SopranosStream
The Sopranos FREE
The Sopranos (With Audio Commentary)
8MM
Fallen
The MightyStream
Gun
She's So Lovely
12 Angry MenStream
Perdita Durango
Theater Talk
The JurorStream
Night Falls on ManhattanStream
The New World
Crimson TideStream
Get ShortyStream
Grimizna plima
Angie
Terminal Velocity
Italian Movie
Money for Nothing
Sesame StreetStream
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News aboutJames Gandolfini
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