RIP Burt Young

[matt_garth]

 

[Webster]

“Girls, this is Lou. Lou, these are girls.”

Also great as Bacala, Sr. when he offed Mustang Sally.

 

[Gutter]

RIP … waiting for Springsteen by the limo in the sky.

He had many great lines in the Rocky franchise, but this is his best scene.

 

[Bubbler]

Have to admit ... I thought he died a while ago.

Same for Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, but I saw some clickbait today that said he's touring.

 

[Spartan Squad]

Wow 86? I thought he was Young…

Man he’s got a laundry list of credits but he always had that one role. What’s funny is I probably saw him in a bunch of his gigs but never really could pick him out. Mark of a good actor. I couldn’t say: oh hey, I remember him!

RIP

 

[Bubbler]

A little bit of before he was famous Burt Young ...



"Across 110th Street" ... what a movie (and soundtrack). Paul Benjamin (the shooter here) is amazing in it.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Apparently, Young also was a professional boxer, and claimed he was unbeaten in 14 bouts.

This was a deleted scene from Rocky Balboa, but Young puts on a great performance. RIP

 

[Sea Bass]

So he was only 36 in the first Rocky????

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Can’t imagine anyone else playing Paulie. He owned it.

Great career. RIP

 

[BTExpress]

Played a loan shark collector in at least two movies (Rocky II and The Gambler). Made for that kind of role.

 

[Starman]

Can’t imagine anyone else playing Paulie. He owned it.

Great career. RIP

Pesci or DeVito.

 

[Starman]

Paulie meets his true love



Apollo:

 

[Dog8Cats]

Played the main suspect in one of the better episodes in the original Law & Order. He was a released sex offender, and Jack McCoy had Briscoe and Curtis make his life a living hell when he got out. Finally, his daughter - with whom he lives upon his release and who maintains his innocence - happens upon him raping a neighbor.

Or, as IMDB says it (better): "Mad Dog" --- A serial rapist recently granted parole against Jack's wishes is a suspect in a new rape and murder. Detectives can't get enough evidence to charge him, so Jack orders detectives to trail and harass him.

 

[SixToe]

IMO his L&O role was one of the series’ best. Young played the part so well from start to finish.

 

[matt_garth]

My Bronx friends recall him owning Il Boschetto on Gun Hill Road.

In a 2006 interview, he said, "But the law gave me a headache over there. Place has been there 30 years. I came in because friends of mine
were involved in freshening it up. It’s a wonderful restaurant. But for every gorilla in the Bronx, it became a waterhole. So from the attention
over all the years, I had a little headache."

 

[DanOregon]

I always found Paulie extremely irritating and really didn't understand the purpose he served in any of the Rocky movies - unless it was to serve as a "tether" to keep Rocky from getting too far away from his roots - whether by screwing with his money and making him go broke, or just be a reminder that aside from his boxing skills, Rocky is more like Paulie than he'd want to admit.

 

[garrow]

RIP to a great Italian-American. Also an accomplished visual artist.

 

[Chef2]

Never seen any of the Rocky movies.
He was awesome as Bacala Sr.

 

[Dyno]

RIP Bedbug Eddie.

 

[DanOregon]

He died 10 days ago - amazing that it didn't become public until now. Figure Stallone would have tweeted something, or someone with knowledge of his death would have let it out.