Saturday, March 10, 2012

Leonardo Cimino, R. I. P.

Leonardo Cimino, a Distinctive Actor, Dies at 94 - NYTimes.com: Leonardo Cimino, who once thought his singular appearance would make an acting career improbable but who ended up spending more than 60 years as an in-demand character actor whose roles included gangsters, grandfathers, the pope, Vincent van Gogh and “Scary German Guy,” died on March 3 at his home in Woodstock, N.Y. He was 94.

2 comments:

Fred Zackel said...

I liked him. He was cool. He was in the made-for-tv of C&BE. The only good thing about it.

Anonymous said...

I remember him best as the mob boss in Cotton Comes to Harlem. I'm astonished that he never had a role in The Sopranos.
Art Scott