Paul Sorvino
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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Paul Sorvino
Filmography
Movies
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23% |
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The Birthday Cake | Uncle Carmine (Character) | - | 2021 |
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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 |
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Welcome to Acapulco | Campbell (Character) | - | 2019 |
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Beneath the Leaves | Captain Parker (Character) | - | 2019 |
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Papa | Danny (Character) | - | 2018 |
73% |
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Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game | Phil (Character) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Executor | Father Antonio (Character) | - | 2017 |
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Lost Cat Corona | Uncle Sam (Character) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Becoming the Enemy | Unknown (Character) | - | 2017 |
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As Long as We Both Shall Live | Jim (Character) | - | 2016 |
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Chasing Gold | Frank (Character) | - | 2016 |
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Undercover Grandpa | Giovanni (Character) | - | 2016 |
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The Red Maple Leaf | Joseph Palermo (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Detours | Joe DiMaria (Character) | - | 2016 |
56% |
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Rules Don't Apply | Vernon Scott (Character) | $3.6M | 2016 |
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Kidnapped in Romania |
Alexandru Damian/ |
- | 2016 |
20% |
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The Brooklyn Banker | Benny (Character) | - | 2016 |
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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 |
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The Bronx Bull | Giuseppe LaMotta (Character) | - | 2015 |
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Sicilian Vampire | Jimmy Scambino (Character) | - | 2015 |
17% |
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Careful What You Wish For | Sheriff Big Jack (Character) | - | 2015 |
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Cold Deck | Chips (Character) | - | 2015 |
100% |
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Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival | God (Character) | - | 2015 |
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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 |
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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% |
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How Sweet It Is | Big Mike (Character) | - | 2013 |
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Imaginary Friend | Jonathan (Character) | - | 2012 |
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The Devil's Carnival | God (Character) | - | 2012 |
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Divorce Invitation | Daniel Miller (Character) | - | 2012 |
0% |
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For the Love of Money | Red Parker (Character) | - | 2012 |
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Jersey Shore Shark Attack | Mayor Palantine (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Switchback |
Jacob Laremy (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 2011 |
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God Don't Make the Laws | Lewis (Character) | - | 2011 |
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Doc West | Sheriff Basehart (Character) | - | 2009 |
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Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe | Santa Claus (Character) | - | 2009 |
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The Wild Stallion | Nolan (Character) | - | 2009 |
37% |
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Repo! The Genetic Opera | Rotti Largo (Character) | - | 2008 |
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Carnera: The Walking Mountain | Ledudal (Character) | - | 2008 |
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The Last Hour | Unknown (Character) | - | 2008 |
70% |
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Greetings From the Shore | Catch Turner (Character) | $93.7K | 2007 |
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Mr. Fix It | Wally (Character) | - | 2006 |
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Goodnight, Joseph Parker | Charlie (Character) | - | 2004 |
54% |
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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% |
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The Cooler | Buddy Stafford (Character) | $8.2M | 2003 |
30% |
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Mambo Italiano | Gino Barberini (Character) | $6.2M | 2003 |
29% |
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Hey Arnold! The Movie | Scheck (Voice) | $13.7M | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ciao America | Antonio Primavera (Character) | - | 2002 |
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Longshot | Laszlo Pryce (Character) | - | 2001 |
11% |
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Perfume | Lorenzo (Character) | - | 2001 |
24% |
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See Spot Run | Sonny Talia (Character) | $33.4M | 2001 |
46% |
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The Amati Girls | Joe (Character) | $47.8K | 2001 |
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Plan B | Joe Maloni (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Thin Blue Lie | Frank Rizzo (Character) | - | 2000 |
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Cheaters | Constantine Kiamos (Character) | - | 2000 |
10% |
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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 |
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Houdini | Blackburn (Character) | - | 1998 |
10% |
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Knock Off | Harry Johanson (Character) | $10.1M | 1998 |
76% |
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Bulworth | Graham Crockett (Character) | $26.4M | 1998 |
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American Perfekt | Sheriff Frank Noonan (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way | Joe Torre (Character) | - | 1997 |
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Men With Guns | Horace Burke (Character) | - | 1997 |
15% |
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Most Wanted | CIA Deputy Director Kenny Rackmill (Character) | $6.3M | 1997 |
15% |
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Money Talks | Guy Cipriani (Character) | $41.1M | 1997 |
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Escape Clause | Lt. Gil Farrand (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dog Watch | Delgoti (Character) | - | 1996 |
74% |
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William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet | Fulgencio Capulet (Character) | $46.4M | 1996 |
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Love Is All There Is | Piero Malacici (Character) | $61.3K | 1996 |
75% |
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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 |
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Parallel Lives | Ed Starling (Character) | - | 1994 |
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A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Wicked Wives | Anthony Caruso (Character) | - | 1993 |
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Backstreet Justice | Captain Phil Giarusso (Character) | - | 1993 |
66% |
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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 |
63% |
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Dick Tracy | Lips Manlis (Character) | $103.7M | 1990 |
94% |
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Goodfellas | Paul "Paulie" Cicero (Character) | $42.6M | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Betrayed by Innocence | Mike Vogel (Character) | - | 1986 |
25% |
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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% |
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Turk 182! | Self | - | 1985 |
73% |
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The Stuff | Colonel Malcolm Grommett Spears (Character) | - | 1985 |
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Chiller | Reverend Penny (Character) | - | 1985 |
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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% |
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I, the Jury | Detective Pat Chambers (Character) | - | 1982 |
71% |
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That Championship Season | Phil Romano (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Question of Honor | Carlo Danzie (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Melanie | Walter (Character) | - | 1982 |
90% |
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Reds | Louis Fraina (Character) | - | 1981 |
49% |
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Cruising | Capt. Edelson (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dummy | Lowell Myers (Character) | - | 1979 |
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Lost and Found | Reilly (Character) | - | 1979 |
70% |
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The Brink's Job | Jazz Maffie (Character) | - | 1978 |
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Bloodbrothers | Chubby De Coco (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Slow Dancing in the Big City | Lou Friedlander (Character) | - | 1978 |
72% |
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Oh, God! | Reverend Willie Williams (Character) | - | 1977 |
40% | No Score Yet | I Will, I Will... for Now | Lou Springer (Character) | - | 1975 |
82% |
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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% |
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A Touch of Class | Walter Menkes (Character) | - | 1973 |
43% |
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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% |
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Panic in Needle Park | Samuels (Character) | - | 1971 |
82% |
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Where's Poppa? | Owner of 'Gus & Grace's Home' (Character) | - | 1970 |
TV
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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 |