His very name conjured the image of a gangster. But Tony Lip only played one on TV. When the show was on TV, Lip was in his 70s, and it definitely wasn't his first Mafia role. Starting with a ...

Only Doc Shirley and Tony Lip were, and you can listen as they corroborate every shred of what is seen in the film. The audio of Doc Shirley was recorded by Josef Astor for his terrific docu Lost ...

Green Book' stars Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali detail their meticulous research into Tony "Lip" Vallelonga and Dr. Don Shirley and explain why their characters' friendship evolves the way.

Tony Lip, who played mob figures in the hit cable show “The Sopranos” and several critically acclaimed movies, died last week, according to a funeral home in Lodi, New Jersey. Lip, whose real ...

Tony Lip, 82, a veteran character actor known for playing mob roles on “The Sopranos” television show and in films, died Friday at a hospital in Teaneck, N.J. Family members told New Jersey ...

“Green Book” actor Frank Vallelonga Jr. has died at the age of 60, Variety has confirmed. The NYPD responded to a call early Monday morning just before 4 a.m. in the Bronx and found Vallelonga ...

The film chronicles the real-life story of Vallelonga's Italian American father Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga, played by Viggo Mortensen, serving as a driver for Don Shirley, a renowned Black ...

Vallelonga, 60, was the son of “Sopranos” actor Tony Lip, aka Frank Anthony Vallelonga, and the brother of Oscar-winning “Green Book” screenwriter Nick Vallelonga. He formerly owned Tony ...

Vallelonga was the son of the late Frank Sr., known as “Tony Lip,” who famously accompanied Black pianist Don Shirley as a bodyguard during a tour through the Jim Crow-era South in the early ...