RIP James Gandolfini

James Gandolfini best known for playing Tony Soprano on the television series Sopranos has passed away in Italy...I really thought this had to be a rumor when I first heard about it but sure enough it's true. The Sopranos was one of the first serial television shows I watched and I thought Tony Soprano was played brilliantly by Gandolfini. My thoughts go out to his family...RIP James.

Gandolfini is believed to have suffered a heart attack. He was 51.

Gandolfini was in Italy to attend the 59th Taormina Film Festival in Sicily -- and he was scheduled to participate in a festival event this weekend with Italian director Gabriele Muccino.

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Just saw it on CNN... sad... my prayers to his family

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Rip big guy...

Sure do wish ya got around to makin a Sopranos wrap up kinda movie.... Now we will never know...

Fitting

WOW.

When I saw your post i thought it was gonna be in the jokes forum, sadly its true.
My girlfriend has never seen the Sopranos. Out of respect for Mr.Gandolfini I think its time her and I watch the whole series. I loved him in The Mexican with Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt. If you haven't seen that movie please give it a chance. It's out of his "normal" charactor but he nails the performance.

He will be missed and the industry lost a down to earth actor that is hard to come by in any day.

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I have seen The Mexican and I agree that was a great performance by him as well!

RIP

That's all.

RIP

RIP, "Tony".

Condolences.

reply to post by Epirus


Very sad RIP James ... my thoughts are with his family ... we have been deprived of a good actor

Woody

Showdown verses Malcolm Tucker. Brilliant.

RIP jimmy, you were still so young.

His role as Tony is one of my favourite all time performances, he was so convincing.

I feel for his kids, he only got remarried a few years ago, it's a shame he went so early.

Maybe he's looking down on us from the big 'bing' in the sky with pie-o-my.

Yeah. Saw that.

S/F

"You wanna know what I think? Kevlar is for [snip]"-The Mexican

A truly underrated actor. RIP.

He was only 51 ?! Oh my God.
RIP ....

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I am surprised at that also, I thought he was older.

Aw he was a good actor I enjoyed watching him, great in The Mexican aswel as The Sopranos.

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51 is very young to die so suddenly . Sadly,its common with the men of some bloodlines

Originally posted by PtolemyII
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51 is very young to die so suddenly . Sadly,its common with the men of some bloodlines

And girths.

reply to post by Epirus


At least he was in the "motherland". R.I.P. Antonio.

reply to post by AGWskeptic


Not really . Many men his age and size don't die of sudden death .
When you have a fairly young male patient ,like 50 and under ,and they have chest pain ,you always ask if there's a history of men in their families have heart issues at the same age the patient is .
Most of these guys die of what's called sudden death .
It's literally ,"oww that hurts ,Wtf is that " ,and they fall over dead.
Some can just have an MI at a very early age .
To me ,50,is still young .
Granted,with today's diets ,I think arteries are getting clogged as a much earlier age .

Originally posted by BlastedCaddy
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Rip big guy...

Sure do wish ya got around to makin a Sopranos wrap up kinda movie.... Now we will never know...

Fitting

I was thinking about this yesterday morning. Wondering if there would ever be a follow up where we see what actually happened right after Meadow opened the door to that restaurant.

It was the greatest series ever on TV. I love most mob movies, but think Gandolfini did a Mobster better than any other Sometimes the scripting was a bit cheesy, and Carmella annoyed me quite a bit....but he played his part superbly.

He certainly will be missed.