Gerald Tommaso DeLouise, better known as the American actor, painter, and author Burt Young, has gone away. According to legend, Young’s acting career began accidentally when a woman he was crushing on informed him she wanted to take acting lessons from renowned acting instructor Lee Strasberg.
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On April 30, 1940, Burt Young was born in Queens, New York. After playing Paulie in six of Sylvester Stallone’s “Rocky” movies, the former boxer rose to fame.
Young has more than 160 film and television credits under his belt in addition to being a skilled theatrical performer. In movies like Convoy, Back to School, The Pope of Greenwich Village, and Downtown: A Street Tale, he played the lead role.
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Burt Young Movies and TV Shows
Young made appearances in a number of movies, including Chinatown (1974), The Gambler (1974), The Killer Elite (1975), Convoy (1978), Uncle Joe Shannon (1978), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), A Summer to Remember (1985), Back to School (1986), Last Exit to Brooklyn (1990), Mickey Blue Eyes (1999), Transamerica (2005), Win Win (2011), Bottom of the 9th (2019), and many others.
Burt Young Age
Prior to passing away in October of this year (2023), Burt Young celebrated his 83rd birthday in April. He was born in Corona, New York, in the United States on April 30, 1940.
Burt Young Sopranos
In a The Sopranos episode, Bobby Baccalieri Sr. was portrayed by Burt Young. Young played Bobby Baccala Sr., the father of the younger Bobby, in episode five of season three, Another Toothpick.
Burt Young Death
Burt Young, a former professional boxer-turned-actor who won an Oscar nod for his work in the blockbuster 1976 film Rocky with Sylvester Stallone, passed away early this month in Los Angeles, according to his daughter, who spoke to The New York Times.
The 83-year-old’s death was not given a cause.
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