Paul Sorvino

Paul Sorvino is an Italian-American actor. He began his career as a copywriter for an advertising agency. Mr. Sorvino made his theater debut in 1964 in the musical Bajour on Broadway. In 1970, he appeared in his first film Where's Poppa? at the age of 30. As a severe asthma sufferer, Paul Sorvino started the Paul Sorvino Asthma Foundation, whose goal is to build asthma centers for adults and children across the United States. Founder of the Dogfellas Dog Adoption Organization in February of 2002. His hobbies are opera, painting, sculpting, and cooking.

When asked what he thought of Goodfellas when it first came out in 1990, he said:

"I thought it was boring, excessively violent and not a good movie. I thought I was boring, I thought that I had hurt my career, I thought that this movie should not have been made and it's not a good movie". He then said three hours later after thinking more about it, "Do you know, I'm kind of coming through a clearing here and I'm thinking that's not a boring movie, that's a good movie, that's a great movie maybe, and I'm really good in it!"

On why he left "Law & Order":

"One of the frustrating things about that role - one of the reasons George Dzundza left, I assume, and certainly why I left - is that there wasn't enough range...It wasn't a large enough vehicle for me to express what it was I want to express as an artist."

• Note: Many of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• 1939: Born on April 13th

• 1964: Bajour - IBDb Listing

• 1970: Where's Poppa? - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

• 1973: A Touch of Class - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

• 1973: The Day of the Dolphin - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

• 1974: The Gambler - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

• 1976: I Will, I Will..For Now - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

• 1978: The Brink's Job - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

• 1981: Reds - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

• 1990: Dick Tracy - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

• 1990: Goodfellas - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

• 1991: [Law & Order - Confession - IMDb Listing | Wikipedia

• 1995: Nixon - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

• 2008: The Trouble with Cali - IMDb Listing | Wikipedia