Over a career that spanned more than 40 years, Vincent also had notable roles in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever, Copland, Witness to the Mob and NYPD Blue. The Blast adds that actor Vincent Pastore, who co-starred with Vincent in The Sopranos, notified friends of Vincent’s death.ĭirector Martin Scorsese frequently cast Vincent in his films as the actor appeared in the filmmaker’s Raging Bull, Casino and Goodfellas, which Rolling Stone placed at Number One on the 100 Greatest Movies of the Nineties list.
The actor died at a New Jersey hospital following complications from open-heart surgery, TMZ reported. Frank Vincent, the character actor that specialized in Mafia roles and appeared as a mobster in Goodfellas, The Sopranos and Casino, died Wednesday.
