His father, a laborer, left the family of seven children, and Daniel started working at age 9 selling newspapers, working in a . We Laughed so much. A memorable character actor on both stage and screen, Mr. Aiello won an Academy Award nomination for his role in Spike Lees 1989 film. No other details were provided. His father, a laborer, left the family of seven children, and Daniel started working at age 9 selling newspapers, working in a grocery store and bowling alley, shining shoes and loading trucks. Just Found Out My Brother DANNY AIELLO Made His Transition Last Night. He was 53. The actor Danny Aiello in 2001. 2023 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. He was 63. He also starred in The House of Blue Leaves (1986) alongside John Mahoney (who earned a Tony Award for his performance), Ben Stiller, Stockard Channing, and Julie Hagerty[25], In 2002, Aiello starred in Elaine May's comedic play, Adult Entertainment alongside May's daughter, Jeannie Berlin. He kept coming to places where I was, seeing me in a restaurant, taking me to a ballgame, taking me to a Knick game. Mr. Aiello married Sandy Cohen, a girl from his Bronx neighborhood, in 1955. "The family asks for privacy at this time," she said in a statement. Shortly after reports started to surface that "Do the Right Thing" actor Danny Aiello had died on Thursday at the age of 86, celebrities took to social . at the Improv, singing backup for unknowns like Bette Midler and the comedian Robert Klein and doing late-late-night readings from The Godfather (the book, that is; the movie hadnt been made yet). In 2014, Aiello told the Staten Island Advance that prior to becoming an actor, he was involved in real-life gang activity. 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His mother worked as a seamstress, an envelope stuffer and a toy-factory supervisor. Danny Aiello attends the 42nd annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on 16 June, 2011 in New York City. 1. Get breaking news alerts in the FOX5NY News app. He was 53. he cried. Anyone can read what you share. Aiello was Chers hapless dumped boyfriend in 1987s Moonstruck, worked extensively with Woody Allen in The Purple Rose of Cairo and the play The Floating Light Bulb and won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle award for his role as a coked-up TV actor in an L.A. production of Hurlyburly. Sergio Leone directed him in Once Upon a Time in America, where he played opposite De Niro. Aiello died at a New Jersey medical . 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In a tweet, Cher mourned the man she called "a genius comedic actor.". His surviving children are Jaime, and Stacey Aiello. Danny also appeared in Madonna's music video for Papa Don't Preach. HOLLYWOOD actor Danny Aiello has died at the age of 86. [7][8], In the 1960s, Aiello served as president of New York Local 1202 of the Amalgamated Transit Union, representing Greyhound Bus workers. They remained together until his death, and she survives him. 0:00. Danny, We Made Cinema History Together With DO THE RIGHT THING. Daniel Louis Siello, Jr. was born in New York City on June 20 . Danny Aiello was an actor and producer best known for his role in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and Godfather Part 2. . A veteran of stage and film, Aiello was best known for playing the pizza parlour owner Sal in Spike Lee's 1989 Do the Right Thing. He is survived by his three children, and wife Sandy, whom he has stayed with since 1955. And theyre not. Kay went on to describe Aiello as an enthusiastic Yankees fan and that the pair had running text message conversations during games. I see things in total form. Danny died in New Jersey where he was being . . When he and his wife saw the film and Mr. De Niros character first said, You talking to me?, he recalled, she turned to him and said, Danny, hes doing you., Danny Aiello, Actor in Do the Right Thing, Dies at 86, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/13/movies/danny-aiello-dead.html. Danny Aiello pictured in February 2004. I've seen it and experienced it. He worked on stage and screen. I said, Im not an actor,' Aiello recalled. He dropped out of high school before graduating, got married in 1955 and joined the Army. Bookmark. Danny, We Made Cinema History Together With DO THE RIGHT THING. He was 86. May You Rest In PARADISE., A post shared by Spike Lee (@officialspikelee) on Dec 13, 2019 at 7:02am PST. In one, in which Mr. Allen starred, Mr. Aiello was cast as a bookie in the 1950s blacklist drama The Front (1976). At the age of 16 he lied about his age in order to join the US Army. At the age of 16 he lied about his age in order to join the US Army. He was 86. Do The Right Thing star Danny Aiello has died aged 86. The famed director wrote, Im Broken. I cant wait to get up because Im going to act., Survivors also include nephew Michael Kay, a former newspaperman and now play-by-play man for the New York Yankees. He worked on an assembly line at an aircraft plant in New Jersey, was a baggage handler for Greyhound in Manhattan and gave the public its first taste of his raspy voice when he started his job there as public address announcer, calling out the names of the stops for departing buses. . In 1981, Aiello won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming for his appearance in an ABC Afterschool Special called A Family of Strangers. Christie DZurilla covers breaking entertainment news. Danny Aiello, the New York actor and former Greyhound bus employee best known for his Oscar-nominated turn as Sal the pizza-joint owner in Do the . He also starred on the small screen in TV shows such as The Last Don, Dellaventura and Lady Blue. We laughed so much making #Moonstruck. His father, whose occupational experience included driving trucks for the bootlegger Dutch Schultz and who served time in prison, was largely absent. Aiello died Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019 after a brief . He played Don Domenico Clericuzio in the miniseries The Last Don (1997). He eventually ran for president of Local 1202 of the Amalgamated Transit Union and won, but he was fired after a wildcat strike by employees. In his teenage years, he joined a street gang and, he claimed, engaged in burglary and safe-cracking. He released several albums with a big band sound including "Live from Atlantic City" in 2008. "There was a little bantering between acts, and I kept that short. He was 63. Rick's brother, Danny Aiello III, also . Loretta. Doing occasional work for an uncle unloading trucks at the Coliseum convention center on Columbus Circle, he wandered into an amateur softball group, the Broadway Show League, just across the way in Central Park. Danny III, a stuntman who doubled for his dad inDo the Right Thingand a stunt coordinator on FXsRescue Me, died in 2010 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. He was 86. Making #Moonstruck ..It was one of the happiest times in my life,& He Was apart of that Happy time.Goodbye #JohnnyCammareri Loretta. 2) Kosuke Fujishima. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Aiello had drawn a diagram for a reporter of how to build his favorite boyhood weapon, and then he flashed a scar he got from one when he was 13. Danny Aiello, the actor from Spike Lee 's Do the Right Thing and Norman Jewison's Moonstruck, died on Thursday night after a reported sudden illness. me . And say hi to my mom for me. [22], Aiello appeared on the Broadway stage many times throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He gained recognition as the befuddled fianc of Cher opposite her Oscar-winning performance in the romantic comedy Moonstruck (1987), and made a comic appearance in drag for the Robert Altman fashion-industry film Prt--Porter (1994). Danny Aiello, a veteran stage and film actor remembered for his roles in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing and Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo, has died at a New Jersey medical center at age 86. Aiello had a walk-on role as small-time hood Tony Rosato in The Godfather Part II (1974), ad-libbing the line "Michael Corleone says hello!" When the play finally made it to Broadway, in 1975, he was back in the role. Its not only what I do to earn a living, but its a distraction that takes me away from things that trouble me terribly, like the loss of my son, he said. Mr. Aiello, second from left, with Spike Lee, far left, Richard Edson and John Turturro in a scene from Do the Right Thing (1989). At 71, the performer found himself on stage again, this time as a solo vocalist. Aiello, the fifth of six children, was born on West 68th Street, Manhattan, the son of parents Frances Pietrocova, a seamstress from Naples, Italy, and Daniel Louis Aiello, a laborer who deserted the family after his wife lost her eyesight and became legally blind. He had apparently been . Im [heart] Broken. "I was very hungry. We've received your submission. The play opened Off Broadway in 1970, with Mr. Aiello making his New York stage debut at the age of 37 as a Hoboken bar owner. Rick was an actor in his own right and starred in films such as Remedy and 29th Street. He even starred with his dad in Spike Lees 1989 film Do The Right Thing., He also had roles in shows such as Law & Order, Sex and the City and Jungle Fever.. [20], Aiello's singing was on display in films such as Hudson Hawk (1991), Once Around (1991), and Remedy (2005) that starred his son Ricky Aiello and Jonathan Doscher. Date of Death: December 12, 2019. 0:00. "During the early times in my acting career, I would fight at the drop of a hat," he said in 1985. Danny Aiello Photofest. He also has a role in The Black Caesar as Vito Lanza, due to be released in 2020. "Living in New York City gave me training for any role," he said in a 1997 interview. He also has a role in The Black Caesar as Vito Lanza, due to be released in 2020. In a way, he owed his show business career to his baseball talent. It was a pure manifestation, instead, of his own rich persona, of the abundant life experience he brings to his art.. DANNY AIELLO OBITUARY. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. Ralph Gatti/Agence France-Presse Getty Images. Gazzo). Aiello was born in Manhattan, New York City on June 20, 1933. One of his earliest roles came as a ballplayer in the baseball drama, Bang the Drum Slowly (1973), with Robert De Niro. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day. Danny was a Great Actor, But a Genius Comedic Actor, Cher wrote on Twitter. The ebullient Aiello became a favorite of several directors, among them Woody Allen, who used him in the Broadway play "The Floating Light Globe" and the movies "Broadway Danny Rose," "The Purple Rose of Cairo" and "Radio Days." 1. He was 86. [9] The strike was called without authorization by the parent union and he was suspended for that action. Danny Aiello the Oscar-nominated character actor who featured in films like Do the Right Thing, Moonstruck, and The Purple Rose of Cairo has died at the age of 86. Danny, who starred in Do The Right Thing and The Godfather III, is survived by four children and his wife Sandy, to whom he was married since 1955. Danny would go on to earn praise in several hit films in the '80s, like "Fort Apache the Bronx" with Paul Newman, "Once Upon a Time in America," "The Purple Rose of Cairo" and "Moonstruck" opposite Cher. He received considerable acclaim for playing a racist New York City cop in Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981) with Paul Newman. Aiello, who didnt start acting until he was 35, often played loathsome types, as in Woody AllensThe Purple Rose of Cairo(1985), where he starred as Mia Farrows gruff, drunken husband. Im interested in the relationships between the characters, not just my own stuff.. Rick died on Monday . It hurts me that he didnt paint me on one of his canvases, he said in a 2017 interview. Daniel Louis Aiello Jr. was born June 20, 1933, to Italian parents. He started with a role in the 1970 play Lamppost Reunion, which he later reprised on Broadway, and did the 1973 film Bang the Drum Slowly, which starred Robert De Niro. The singer, 73, shared her condolences on Twitter Friday following the news that Aiello, who starred with her in the 1987 film Moonstruck, had died on Thursday. would become one of the most iconic moments of the classic film. Me . Aiello died Thursday at the age of 86. Once he got arrested for stealing a chocolate bar from Woolworths and was taken to the 41st Precinct police station (that would be Fort Apache). But when Greyhound accused him of starting a wildcat strike and the union leaders agreed, Aiello quit his job. Danny Aiello, who starred in "Do the Right Thing" among dozens of other films over a career that spanned nearly 50 years, has died, his family confirmed Friday. And he could never figure out why Martin Scorsese never cast him. Aiellos nephew was ESPN radio personality Michael Kays uncle. Danny Aiello Birthday and Date of Death. A son, stuntman Danny Aiello III, died of pancreatic cancer at age 53 in 2010. Still, the experience made him feel for the first time that he belonged as an actor. [12], Aiello broke into films in the early 1970s. In 1977, he originated the role of Fran Geminiani in the long-running play Gemini. Actor Rick Aiello, son of the late actor Danny Aiello, died Monday after his battle with pancreatic cancer, according to a press release from public relations company Tracey . His film career took off in the early 1970s. 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The role was initially written for De Niro, Aiello said, but when he couldnt do it, I believe he recommended me., Lee, who directed the film, played Mookie, a pizzeria employee. Aiello and EMI songwriter Hasan Johnson released an album of standards fused with rap entitled Bridges in 2011. His son, Danny Aiello III, died of . Never from people; it was always going into places with vending machines, cigarette machines. He also played Madonna's father in the 1986 video for Papa Don't . Danny Aiello, the acclaimed actor who rose to prominence with roles in "The Godfather Part II" and "Do The Right Thing," has passed away at 86 years old. View our online Press Pack. A statement from Aiellos family said that a private funeral service would be forthcoming. In honor of Danny Aiello's incredible life we look back on his career, achievements, family and death. Together they had sons Rick, Jaime and Danny Aiello III and daughter Stacey. By Paul Farrell. [16], Aiello played the pizzeria owner Sal in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989). Danny was a great actor, but a genius comedic actor. He started his onscreen career with Italian American sagas like "The Godfather: Part II" and "Once Upon A Time In America . [13], Aiello had a co-lead role with Jan-Michael Vincent in Defiance (1980), about some Manhattan residents who fight back against the thugs terrorizing the neighborhood. (When ABCsNaked Citycame there for an episode in 1963, actor Frank Gorshin told Aiello to bump into him so he would show up on TV.). I've got scars on my face. pic.twitter.com/7JtaklraQ6, Michael Kay (@RealMichaelKay) December 13, 2019. Danny Aiello, the New York actor and former Greyhound bus employee best known for his Oscar-nominated turn as Sal the pizza-joint owner in 'Do the Right Thing' and for portraying Cher's lovelorn suitor in 'Moonstruck,' has died. Danny was born in the Bronx, NY on January 27, 1957 to Danny and Sandra Aiello. The Obie, incidentally, came in 1977 for his off-Broadway performance in the play Gemini, and the Daytime Emmy for an ABC Afterschool Special. In a tweet, Cher mourned the man she called "a genius comedic actor." Reports have said he was dealing with an infection related to an injection site and died shortly after his family left following a visit, according to TMZ. Goodbye Johnny Cammareri. "I've seen people killed, knifed. Actor Danny Aiellos son Rick has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer. TMZ reported that he had been battling with the illness for over a year and a half. [6] He moved to the South Bronx when he was seven, and later attended James Monroe High School. Danny, fr Danny Aiello, the acclaimed actor who rose to prominence with roles in "The Godfather Part II" and "Do The Right Thing," has passed away at 86 years old. A child of New York's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, Aiello retained the pugnacity he learned on city streets. Goodbye Dear #DannyAiello, Cher tweeted Friday, dropping in a broken-heart emoji. Aiello said that he was involved in running a numbers game for local mafia figures. Im the only Italian American in the country that hasnt been in his pictures.. His death was confirmed by Jennifer De Chiara, his literary agent, in an email. Danny Aiello has died at the age of 86. Earlier, Aiello had refused to audition for director Norman Jewison but still got the part of Mr. Johnny Cammareri, he with the itchy head, inMoonstruck(1987). The whole shape. "Ricky was a wonderful father, husband and a good friend to so many people," his wife, Arlene Urichich, said in the statement. Danny used his singing talents in Broadway, creating dazzling performances in the Gemini and The House of Blue Leaves. Danny's family had come to visit him Thursday, and we're told he died shortly after they'd left that evening. [4][5] He was of Italian descent. The star passed away shortly after his family left his bedside at a New Jersey hospital on December 12, 2019. Danny also acted on Broadway, and had a singing career. The great actor/singer speaks out on the 9/11 trials in NYC. Aiello (pronounced eye-YEL-o) died Thursday night after a brief illness, said his publicist, Tracey Miller, who runs Tracey Miller & Associates. Family Members. Though he lost to Denzel Washington (for Glory), Mr. Aiello established his stardom when he was named best supporting actor by the Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston film critics associations that same year. His father was absent more times than he was there It seems he would come home once a year and my mother would have another child, he toldThe New York Timesin 1990 and his family needed welfare checks to make ends meet. Soundtracks. He was once nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his role as Salvatore "Sal" Frangione in the comedy-drama film "Do the Right Thing" (1989). CNN . Danny was married to his . Danny Aiello, the blue-collar character actor whose long career playing tough guys included roles in Moonstruck and Once Upon a Time in America has died. Mark Sheehan, guitarist with Irish pop band the Script, has died in hospital aged 46 after a brief illness. Aiello sang Fly Me to the Moon in Lasse HallstromsOnce Around(1991), and he wound up releasing a handful of jazz albums, including 2004sI Just Wanted to Hear the Words, which made it to No. In 1990 he was nominated for a Best Supporting Oscar for his role in Do The Right Thing. I suppose I could say acting is medicinal. He was 86. Danny Aiello was an American actor of Italian descent, and enjoyed a lengthy career in film. He won the role after establishing himself as a memorable character actor in films like Moonstruck (1987), in which he played Chers kind but clueless fianc; Fort Apache: The Bronx (1981), as a ruthless police officer who throws a young man off a rooftop; Sergio Leones Once Upon a Time in America (1984), also as a police officer; and three films involving Woody Allen. Soon he was filling in as M.C. He had a small but notable role in "The . Danny Aiello III's father, Danny Aiello, died on December 12, 2019 as he was 86 years old. He was 86. Just Found Out My Brother DANNY AIELLO Made His Transition Last Night. Their father, Danny Aiello, passed away in 2019 at the age of 86 after a short illness. The Hollywood Reporter is a part of Penske Media Corporation. Sad loss: Do The Right Thing actor Rick Aiello has died at age 65 after a year-and-a-half battle with pancreatic cancer. Danny Aiello III, Rick's brother, was a stuntman and died of pancreatic cancer in 2010 at the age of 53. Aiello played nightclub owner and Lee Harvey Oswald assassin Jack Ruby in the biopic Ruby (1992), the lead role in Paul Mazursky's film business satire The Pickle (1993), the titular character in the Academy Award-winning short film Lieberman in Love (1995), and a political big shot with mob ties in City Hall (1996), starring Al Pacino. [14] His nephew is Michael Kay, broadcaster for the New York Yankees. I have known him for almost 50 years. Rick Aiello, the son of the late Danny Aiello, passed away from pancreatic cancer at the age of 65. Aiello is . [27], Aiello lived in Ramsey, New Jersey, for many years. Danny Aiello and His Two Sons died back to back adding to the pattern of Three as in Three Fates. Making #Moonstruck ..It was one of the happiest times in my life,& He Was apart of that Happy time. His first film role was in the baseball drama Bang the Drum Slowly (1973), with the young Robert De Niro. In 1990 he was nominated for a Best Supporting Oscar for his role in Do The Right Thing. Aiello, a native New Yorker, broke into movies in the early '70s by landing a small role in the Robert De Niro baseball drama, "Bang the Drum Slowly." me . He was best known to film viewers both as the pizza-joint owner 'Sal' in the 1989 film Do the Right Thing and as Cher's lovelorn suitor in the 1987 film Moonstruck. He had five siblings. Aiello's literary . The two had starred in Norman Jewison's hit comedy "Moonstruck" and she called it "one of the happiest times in my life." Danny,We Made Cinema History Together With DO THE RIGHT THING. Approximately 10% of pancreatic cancer . Just Found Out My Brother DANNY AIELLO Made His Transition Last Night. If you change your mind, go to Notifications in the menu to enable browser notifications. His performance brought him an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. But he never stopped. 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