Washington Times · Jul 9, 2022
Actor Tony Sirico, ‘Sopranos’ star, dead at 79
FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007 file photo, Tony Sirico from the TV series The Sopranos, left, talks with Entertainment Tonight reporter Mary Hart at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Hart’s ...Tony Sirico, a one-time jailbird who achieved fame as mobster Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri in HBO‘s “The Sopranos,” died Friday, his brother the Rev. Robert Sirico said on Facebook. He was a little more than two weeks short of his 80th birthday.