RIP big fella
Was a good supporting actor in Get Shorty and some film, name escapes me about a submarine. Hackman and Washington were in it also. That was when I first noticed him.
Then Sopranos came along, quality writing made the show but it needed someone like Gandolfini to play it.
Someone wrote there had been 86 episodes. I have watched them all and it never seemed that many, that shows how good it was, some shows have a lull, this never.