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A Bronx Tale : C Kills A Cop - Keyser Soze - 12-10-2005
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/breaking_news/story/373595p-317638c.html
Cop-shoot suspect an actor with role in 'The Sopranos'
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Just a dozen years ago, Lillo Brancato Jr. was going to be a star.
The unknown actor earned critical acclaim opposite his idol, Robert De Niro, in the 1993 movie “A Bronx Tale.” He played the Oscar winner’s son in the story of a teen torn between two role models — a local mobster and his dad — in a heavily Italian Bronx neighborhood.
From there, Brancato went on to appear in more than a dozen films, including “Renaissance Man,” “Crimson Tide,” “Enemy of the State” and “The Adventures of Pluto Nash.” Brancato later enjoyed a recurring role on “The Sopranos,” eventually getting executed by fictional mob boss Tony Soprano in one of the series’ more memorable departures.
But on Saturday, the actor was far from the bright lights and red carpets of Hollywood fame. Instead, police said, he was breaking into the basement of a vacant Bronx house when a gunfight erupted and an off-duty city police officer was killed.
Brancato was just 16 when De Niro launched a search for non-professionals to appear in his 1993 directorial debut, the film version of Chazz Palminteri’s play “A Bronx Tale.” Brancato was discovered by a casting director strolling along the sands at Jones Beach; he came out of the water and wowed him with impressions of De Niro and Joe Pesci.
In a New York Times profile, he was described as “friendly, earnest, sweet-tempered, a fast talker, a salesman, the kind of goofy tough guy who once upon a time used to hang out on a city street corner.”
Brancato, 29, was raised in the Yonkers by adoptive parents, and he still resided in the city just north of the Bronx. Brancato, born in Bogota, Colombia, was adopted when he was 4 months old.
“I consider myself Italian,” he once said. “I was raised to eat pasta.”
In 1999-2000, he appeared in a half-dozen episodes of “The Sopranos” as a dim-witted aspiring mobster. In one episode, his character worked a high-stakes card game where the players included Frank Sinatra Jr.
Brancato also starred in the short-live TV mob show “Falcone,” and guest-starred in a 2002 episode of “NYPD Blue.” His most recent appearance in the headlines came in June, when Brancato was arrested by Yonkers police after they discovered four glassine bags of heroin during a routine traffic stop.
Originally published on December 10, 2005
- Goatweed - 12-10-2005
The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.
- drusilla - 12-11-2005
burn
- TheGMANN - 12-11-2005
SUCKER!
- GonzoStyle - 12-11-2005
I guess mickey mantle didn't pay the rent again.
- PatCooper - 12-11-2005
The news is saying that he was not the shooter though.
- GonzoStyle - 12-11-2005
I went to imdb and of course you had all the people who "know him" saying he was a junkie, some people saying he was killed, who the fuck knows or cares even.
He was ok for a minute though.
- Tequila - 12-12-2005
I know him very well. I was with him on Thursday night, smoking a nice blunt. When he left my house he went to meet his ex-girlfriend. Instead of meeting up with his ex, her father was there and they when on a bender, ending up in the Bronx. You can read the story to find out what happened next.
- Buttmunch - 12-12-2005
Tequila is a cop killer.
- Tequila - 12-14-2005
No I am not.
- Danked - 12-14-2005
A CDIH Exclusive!!!!
- GonzoStyle - 12-14-2005
I guess I didn't have to go to IMDB, seems like everyone knows him.