By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Veteran actor Burt Young, nominated for an Oscar for his role as brother-in-law and friend to protagonist Sylvester Stallone in the “Rocky” films, has died at the age of 83, his manager said on Wednesday.
Young’s death, which occurred on October 8 in Los Angeles, first reported by The New York Times on Wednesday, was confirmed to Reuters by Lynda Bensky, his manager in Los Angeles.
Born Gerald Tommaso DeLouise in the New York City borough of Queens, the actor served in the U.S. Marine Corps in the 1950s and later studied at Lee Strasberg’s Actors Studio. He built a career mostly playing tough, Italian-American characters on television and in film.
The actor was best known for his role in the original 1976 film “Rocky,” playing Paulie Pennino, the alcoholic butcher and friend of Stallone’s character Rocky Balboa, who made butchering meat at the warehouse where Paulie worked part of his routine. regular training as an aspiring boxer.
The role of Paulie, who was also the brother of Rocky’s shy love interest and his future wife, Adrian (she marries Balboa in “Rocky II”), earned Young an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor.
Young reprized the role of Paulie in all six of the original “Rocky” sequels.
In recent years, Young has become known as a painter, with works exhibited in galleries around the world.
Source: CNN Brasil
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