joseph siravo obituary: Sopranos” star Joseph Siravo, who played Tony Soprano’s dad, has kicked the bucket following a fight with malignant growth. He was 66.

Siravo’s representative affirmed the entertainer’s demise to Variety, noticing that he kicked the bucket on Sunday following a “long, gutsy” fight with colon malignancy.

Siravo is most popular for work in TV just as theater. On HBO’s “Sopranos,” he played Johnny Soprano — highlighting noticeably in flashback scenes to the 1960s — and later depicted Fred Goldman, father of Ron Goldman, in FX’s “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.”

Other late credits incorporate TV arrangement, for example, “Forever,” “The Blacklist,” “Made in Jersey,” “Messy Sexy Money” and “The rule of law.” In film, he showed up in the Adam Driver-drove “The Report” and Meera Menon’s 2016 film “Value, just as “Motherless Brooklyn,” “The Wannabe,” “Shark Tale” and “Sunsets on Manhattan.”

Brought up in Washington D.C., the entertainer did his BA at Stanford prior to finishing a MFA at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts theater program. He made his screen debut in “Carlito’s Way” (1993) and before long handled the Johnny Soprano job in HBO hit “The Sopranos,” which ran for six seasons.