Sao Paulo
This Sunday the 31st, it was announced that the actor Richard Romanus from the series “The Sopranos” died on the 23rd at the age of 80. He was admitted to a hospital in Volos, Greece, the information was confirmed by his son Robert Romanus. The cause of death was not revealed.
On The Sopranos, Romanus played Richard LaPenna, Jennifer Melfi's husband, for a few episodes between 1999 and 2002. However, his most famous role was in the cinema directed by Martin Scorsese.
Romanus played Michael, a powerful loan shark from Little Italy, an Italian neighborhood in New York, in 1973's “Dangerous Ways.” In one of the film's most famous scenes, he gets into an argument with Robert De Niro's character Johnny Boy. .
In the 1970s, the American also took on important dubbing work in the animated films “Wizards” and “Heavy Metal Universo em Fantasia”. He has not been seen on screen since 2003, when he filmed the inconspicuous “O Jovem Corcel Negro”.