Body Dumped In The Bronx Identified As ‘Green Book’ Actor Frank Vallelonga Jr. - Deadline

Deadline has confirmed that the NYPD has identified a assemblage recovered dumped extracurricular a Bronx sheet-metal manufacturing mill Monday arsenic Frank Vallelonga Jr., a sometime histrion astir notable for his relation successful 2018’s Green Book. He was 60.

In Best Picture Oscar victor Green Book, Vallelonga Jr. portrayed a comparative of Viggo Mortensen’s bouncer quality Frank “Tony Lip” Vallelonga. Vallelonga Jr. was the real-life lad of the bouncer portrayed successful the film, who besides was an histrion champion known for playing transgression brag Carmine Lupertazzi successful The Sopranos. (Vallelonga Sr. died successful 2013).

According to the NYPD, constabulary responded to a 911 telephone of an unconscious antheral successful beforehand 1243 Oak Point Avenue successful the Bronx, aboriginal Monday morning. “Upon arrival, constabulary observed an unidentified big male, unconscious and unresponsive, connected the crushed astatine the location.” constabulary said. “The antheral had nary evident signs of trauma observed. EMS responded to the determination and pronounced the antheral deceased astatine the scene. The Medical Examiner volition find the origin of death. The probe is ongoing.”

The New York Post is reporting that its instrumentality enforcement sources accidental Vallelonga Jr. apt was drug-overdose victim.

Steven Smith, 35, of the Bronx, has been arrested and charged with concealment of a quality corpse successful narration to Vallelonga’s death.

Vallelonga Jr. besides had a tiny relation successful a 2004 occurrence of The Sopranos, among different spot parts.

Green Book, astir the real-life Italian-American bouncer (Mortensen) who becomes the operator for a Black classical pianist (Mahershala Ali) successful the 1960s American South, was written by Peter Farrelly, Brian Hayes Currie and Vallelonga Jr.’s member Nick Vallelonga.