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Paul Sorvino

Highest Rated: 100% Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival (2015)

Lowest Rated: 0% For the Love of Money (2012)

Birthday: Apr 13, 1939

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA

A familiar face in film and on television and stage since the early 1970s, Paul Sorvino was a Tony-nominated character actor and occasional lead whose imposing presence belied the versatility of his talents. His Italian-American heritage and Brooklyn roots assured him regular employment as policemen and gangsters, both of which he essayed in projects ranging from "Law and Order" (NBC, 1990- ) to Martin Scorsese's flawless Mob epic, "Goodfellas" (1990). But Sorvino, who had trained for nearly two decades as an opera singer and ballroom dance instructor, could be counted on to tackle all manner of roles, from the philandering businessman in "That Championship Season" (1982) and Henry Kissinger in Oliver Stone's "Nixon" (1995) to a flamboyant evangelist in Carl Reiner's "Oh, God!" (1979). He was also a regular presence in numerous television series and TV-movies, though his most memorable small-screen appearance may have been at the 1995 Academy Awards ceremony, where he wept openly for his daughter, Mira Sorvino, after she won the Oscar for "Mighty Aphrodite" (1995). Though his feature efforts became less visible after the new millennium, his body of work in all mediums cemented his status as a character actor of considerable renown.

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Highest rated movies

100% 83% Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival Watchlist
94% 97% Goodfellas
Watchlist
90% 82% Reds
Watchlist
86% 65% A Touch of Class
Watchlist
82% 69% Where's Poppa?
Watchlist
82% 77% The Gambler
Watchlist
80% 75% Panic in Needle Park
Watchlist
60% Cheaters
Watchlist
77% 69% The Cooler
Watchlist
76% 68% Bulworth Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
23% 90% The Birthday Cake Uncle Carmine (Character) - 2021
No Score Yet 57% Most Guys Are Losers Grandpa (Character) - 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bad Impulse Lou Branch (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Acts of Desperation Chief Lassiter (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet 46% Welcome to Acapulco Campbell (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet 10% Beneath the Leaves Captain Parker (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet 96% Papa Danny (Character) - 2018
73% 93% Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game Phil (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Executor Father Antonio (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet 22% Lost Cat Corona Uncle Sam (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Becoming the Enemy Unknown (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet 92% As Long as We Both Shall Live Jim (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet 96% Chasing Gold Frank (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet 28% Undercover Grandpa Giovanni (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet 40% The Red Maple Leaf Joseph Palermo (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Detours Joe DiMaria (Character) - 2016
56% 34% Rules Don't Apply Vernon Scott (Character) $3.6M 2016
No Score Yet 40% Kidnapped in Romania Alexandru Damian/Don Ciro (Character) - 2016
20% 91% The Brooklyn Banker Benny (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet 86% The Bandit Hound Chief Burton (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Price for Freedom Shah of Iran (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet No Deposit Alfie (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet 39% The Bronx Bull Giuseppe LaMotta (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet 25% Sicilian Vampire Jimmy Scambino (Character) - 2015
17% 61% Careful What You Wish For Sheriff Big Jack (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet 16% Cold Deck Chips (Character) - 2015
100% 83% Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival God (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet 55% A Winter Rose Skippy (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hybrids The Count (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Foreclosed Bud (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet 47% Once Upon a Time in Queens Joe Scoleri (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Immigrant Yeshiva Principal (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Last I Heard Joe (Character) - 2013
0% 56% How Sweet It Is Big Mike (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet 55% Imaginary Friend Jonathan (Character) - 2012
No Score Yet 70% The Devil's Carnival God (Character) - 2012
No Score Yet 23% Divorce Invitation Daniel Miller (Character) - 2012
0% 50% For the Love of Money Red Parker (Character) - 2012
No Score Yet 22% Jersey Shore Shark Attack Mayor Palantine (Character) - 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Switchback Jacob Laremy (Character),
Executive Producer
- 2011
No Score Yet 29% God Don't Make the Laws Lewis (Character) - 2011
No Score Yet 48% Doc West Sheriff Basehart (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet 38% Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe Santa Claus (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet 48% The Wild Stallion Nolan (Character) - 2009
37% 73% Repo! The Genetic Opera Rotti Largo (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 36% Carnera: The Walking Mountain Ledudal (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 11% The Last Hour Unknown (Character) - 2008
70% 57% Greetings From the Shore Catch Turner (Character) $93.7K 2007
No Score Yet 37% Mr. Fix It Wally (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet 0% Goodnight, Joseph Parker Charlie (Character) - 2004
54% 30% Mr. 3000 Gus Panas (Character) $21.8M 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet Family Doctor Nicola (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mafia Doctor Nicola (Character) - 2003
77% 69% The Cooler Buddy Stafford (Character) $8.2M 2003
30% 66% Mambo Italiano Gino Barberini (Character) $6.2M 2003
29% 37% Hey Arnold! The Movie Scheck (Voice) $13.7M 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ciao America Antonio Primavera (Character) - 2002
No Score Yet 50% Longshot Laszlo Pryce (Character) - 2001
11% 51% Perfume Lorenzo (Character) - 2001
24% 44% See Spot Run Sonny Talia (Character) $33.4M 2001
46% 64% The Amati Girls Joe (Character) $47.8K 2001
No Score Yet 29% Plan B Joe Maloni (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Thin Blue Lie Frank Rizzo (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 60% Cheaters Constantine Kiamos (Character) - 2000
10% 48% Harlem Aria Fabiano Grazzi (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet That Championship Season Coach (Character),
Director
- 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dead Broke Harvey (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet 27% Houdini Blackburn (Character) - 1998
10% 26% Knock Off Harry Johanson (Character) $10.1M 1998
76% 68% Bulworth Graham Crockett (Character) $26.4M 1998
No Score Yet 59% American Perfekt Sheriff Frank Noonan (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way Joe Torre (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet 50% Men With Guns Horace Burke (Character) - 1997
15% 40% Most Wanted CIA Deputy Director Kenny Rackmill (Character) $6.3M 1997
15% 71% Money Talks Guy Cipriani (Character) $41.1M 1997
No Score Yet 38% Escape Clause Lt. Gil Farrand (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dog Watch Delgoti (Character) - 1996
74% 77% William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet Fulgencio Capulet (Character) $46.4M 1996
No Score Yet 47% Love Is All There Is Piero Malacici (Character) $61.3K 1996
75% 74% Nixon Henry Kissinger (Character) $13.7M 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cover Me J.J. Davis (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Without Consent Dr. Winslow (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trapped and Deceived Dr. Winslow (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 87% Parallel Lives Ed Starling (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 50% A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Wicked Wives Anthony Caruso (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet 40% Backstreet Justice Captain Phil Giarusso (Character) - 1993
66% 65% The Rocketeer Eddie Valentine (Character) $46.5M 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Age Isn't Everything Max (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Don't Touch My Daughter Lt. Willman (Character) - 1991
62% 53% Dick Tracy Lips Manlis (Character) $103.7M 1990
94% 97% Goodfellas Paul "Paulie" Cicero (Character) $42.6M 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Betrayed by Innocence Mike Vogel (Character) - 1986
25% 33% A Fine Mess Tony Pazzo (Character) $5.0M 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jailbait Mike Vogel (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter Gino (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Very Close Quarters Kiril (Character) - 1986
20% 55% Turk 182! Self - 1985
73% 50% The Stuff Colonel Malcolm Grommett Spears (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet 13% Chiller Reverend Penny (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet 95% Surviving Harvey (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet My Mother's Secret Life Max (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Urge to Kill Doyle Reinecker (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Off the Wall Warden Nicholas F. Castle (Character) - 1983
45% 42% I, the Jury Detective Pat Chambers (Character) - 1982
71% 50% That Championship Season Phil Romano (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Melanie Walter (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Question of Honor Carlo Danzie (Character) - 1982
90% 82% Reds Louis Fraina (Character) - 1981
49% 49% Cruising Capt. Edelson (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dummy Lowell Myers (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet 50% Lost and Found Reilly (Character) - 1979
70% 56% The Brink's Job Jazz Maffie (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet 53% Bloodbrothers Chubby De Coco (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Slow Dancing in the Big City Lou Friedlander (Character) - 1978
72% 59% Oh, God! Reverend Willie Williams (Character) - 1977
40% No Score Yet I Will, I Will... for Now Lou Springer (Character) - 1975
82% 77% The Gambler Hips (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet King Lear Gloucester (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Shoot It: Black, Shoot It: Blue Ring (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tell Me Where It Hurts Joe (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy Harry Walters (Character) - 1974
86% 65% A Touch of Class Walter Menkes (Character) - 1973
43% 42% The Day of the Dolphin Curtis Mahoney (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Made for Each Other Gig's Father (Character) - 1971
80% 75% Panic in Needle Park Samuels (Character) - 1971
82% 69% Where's Poppa? Owner of 'Gus & Grace's Home' (Character) - 1970

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 87% Godfather of Harlem Frank Costello (Character) 2019 2021 2023
80% 79% Bad Blood Enrico (Character) 2017-2018
25% 47% Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders Dr. Dominic Scarpa (Guest Star) 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Making of the Mob Unknown (Character) 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Celebrity Family Feud Guest 2016
71% 59% Grandfathered Jack Martino (Guest Star) 2016
No Score Yet 75% The Goldbergs Ben 'Pop Pop' Goldberg (Guest Star) 2014
95% 89% Elementary Robert Pardillo (Character) 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Talk Guest 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Still Standing Unknown (Guest Star) 2004-2006
88% No Score Yet Jack & Bobby Unknown (Guest Star) 2004
83% No Score Yet That's Life Unknown (Character),
Unknown (Guest Star),
Director
2000-2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Big House Narrator 1998-2001 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Daily Show Guest 2002
92% 90% Star Trek: The Next Generation Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko (Guest Star) 1994
No Score Yet 83% Law & Order Phil Cerreta (Character),
Jay Devlin (Guest Star)
1991-1992
No Score Yet 89% Murder, She Wrote Al Sidell (Guest Star) 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Streets of San Francisco Sergeant Bert D'Angelo (Guest Star) 1976