There is some extremely sad news coming in from the Hollywood stable. Veteran actors David Warner and Paul Sorvino breathed their last. Read on for more details.
Titanic actor David Warner dies at 80 from cancer-related illness
Emmy-winning English actor David Warner, who gave memorable performances on the big screen, in a key role in the seminal 1976 horror film, The Omen, and as villains in Time After Time, Time Bandits and Tron, has died of cancer-related illness, reports 'Variety'. He was 80. The actor's family told the BBC: "Over the past 18 months he approached his diagnosis with a characteristic grace and dignity. He will be missed hugely by us, his family and friends, and remembered as a kind-hearted, generous and compassionate man, partner and father, whose legacy of extraordinary work has touched the lives of so many over the years. We are heartbroken."
Warner was Emmy-nominated for playing Reinhard Heydrich, a Nazi official who was a key architect of the Final Solution, in the landmark 1978 miniseries Holocaust, and won an Emmy for playing the sadistic Roman political opportunist Pomponius Falco in the 1981 miniseries Masada, 'Variety' notes. He reprised the role of the Nazi Heydrich in the 1985 telepic Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil.
The actor was among the large cast of James Cameron's 1997 epic Titanic, but was wasted, according to 'Variety', "in the role of a thug-like butler". He played a simian senator in Tim Roth's 2001 reimagining of Planet of the Apes and a doctor in the hit comedy 'Ladies in Lavender' (2005) starring the inimitable duo of Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. Recently, Warner appeared in Disney's Mary Poppins Returns in (2018) and You, Me and Him (2017) and on Showtime's Penny Dreadful as the ‘Dracula' character Professor Abraham van Helsing in 2014. The mid-'70s to the mid-'80s probably represented the zenith of Warner's career, starting with The Omen, where he played Jennings, the photographer who develops images on which the specific manner of death for the individuals depicted is superimposed.
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Goodfellas, Law & Order actor and Mira Sorvino’s Dad, Paul Sorvino dies at 83
Paul Sorvino, who starred in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas and early seasons of the NBC hit series Law & Order passed away at the age of 83 due to natural causes in the early hours of today morning. His death was announced by his publicist Roger Neal on behalf of his wife Dee Dee Sorvino, who was at his side when he passed away. Later, his daughter Mira Sorvino also took to social media to share her grief on her father’s passing.
My father the great Paul Sorvino has passed. My heart is rent asunder- a life of love and joy and wisdom with him is over. He was the most wonderful father. I love him so much. I’m sending you love in the stars Dad as you ascend.
— Mira Sorvino (@MiraSorvino) July 25, 2022
Dee Dee Sorvino said in a statement, “Our hearts are broken. There will never be another Paul Sorvino, he was the love of my life, and one of the greatest performers to ever grace the screen and stage.” Born on April 13, 1939 in Brooklyn, Paul Sorvino starred in films such as Goodfellas, Nixon, Dick Tracy, The Rocketeer, For the Love of Money, That Championship Season, Reds, A Touch of Class and Oh, God! among many others. On television he starred on Seasons 2 and 3 of Law & Order and on Broadway in That Championship Season.
(Source: IANS/Deadline)
