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Burt Young, born Gerald Tommaso DeLouise, died October 8th.\u00a0 No cause of death was given.\u00a0 Mr. Young was 83.<\/p>\n
Burt Young, best known for his Academy Award nominated role as Rocky Balboa’s brother-in-law Paulie, was actually a boxer himself.\u00a0 While in the United State Marines, Mr. Young compiled a 32 -2 record!<\/p>\n
Burt Young trained at the Actor’s Studio under Lee Strasberg.\u00a0 During the course of his career Burt Young compiled 170 acting credits in films and television. Mr. Young wrote and starred in the feature film Uncle Joe Shannon<\/em>, wrote and starred in the television movie Daddy, I Don’t Like It Like This<\/em>, and an episode of Baretta<\/em> (The Big Hand’s On Trouble<\/em>) which he guest starred in.\u00a0 Burt Young also wrote the historical novel ENDINGS, as well as two stage plays (SOS<\/em> and A Letter to Alicia and the New York City Government from a Man With a Bullet in His Head)<\/em>.\u00a0 Mr. Young was also an accomplished painter with gallery showings throughout the world.\u00a0 Some of his paintings appeared in Rocky Balboa<\/em> when we learned that Paulie also liked to paint.<\/p>\n Some of Burt Young’s television appearances include: The Doctors; MASH; Little House on the Prairie; Baretta<\/em> (3 episodes); The Rockford Files; Daddy, I Don’t Like It Like This; Miami Vice; The Equalizer; Vendetta: Secrets of a Mafia Bride<\/em> (6 episodes); Tales from the Crypt; Law & Order; The Last Don<\/em> (2 episodes); Walker, Texas Ranger<\/em> (2 episodes); The Sopranos and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit<\/em>.<\/p>\n Some of Burt Young’s feature film appearances include: Carnival of Blood; The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight; Across 110th Street; Cinderella Liberty; Chinatown; The Killer Elite; Rocky; Twilight’s Last Gleaming; The Choirboys; Convoy; Uncle Joe Shannon; Rocky II; All the Marbles; Rocky III; Once Upon a Time in America; The Pope of Greenwich Village; Rocky IV; Back to School; Rocky V; Mickey Blue Eyes<\/em> and Rocky Balboa.<\/em><\/p>\n I probably saw Burt Young first on MASH, Baretta<\/em> or The Rockford Files<\/em>, but it was his role in Rocky<\/em> that I always think of first.\u00a0 From all accounts Burt Young was a kind and gentle soul.\u00a0 He was a true renaissance man – an actor, author and painter.\u00a0 He made every production he was in better.<\/p>\n Our thoughts and prayers go out to Burt Young’s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Burt Young, born Gerald Tommaso DeLouise, died October 8th.\u00a0 No cause of death was given.\u00a0 Mr. Young was 83. Burt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,61,52,17,54,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-authors","category-books","category-celebs","category-movies","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34249,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34248\/revisions\/34249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}