3 great stars brought together by mafia films, and a close friendship developed between them that made them appear together in public most of the time, and Hollywood lost them in less than two months after they became famous for embodying the lives of fictional gangsters on the screen, and for their contribution to the development of the form of gangster films, namely Ray Liotta, James Caan and Tony Sirico.

Ray Liotta is the star of the classic Mafia movie Good fellas 1990, directed by Martin Scorsese, in which Liotta (Henry Hill) plays his greatest role, opposite Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci in “one of the most dynamic films about life.” criminality and its temptations,” says film critic Ryan Gilby.

James Caan is the star of "The Godfather" 1972, the icon of modern gangster films, directed by Francis de Coppola.

The third is Tony Sirico, who played a gangster named Tony opposite Liotta in The Good Guys, and is best known for his role as Polly "Wolnuts" Gualtieri, in the HB crime television drama "The Sopranos." Or" (HBO) for 6 seasons, from 1999 to 2007.

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"You can't take your eyes off him";

This is what director Martin Scorsese said, after admiring Ray Liotta's performance in "Something Wild" 1986 and "Field of Dreams" 1989.

In his article for the British newspaper "theguardian", Scorsese addressed the astonishing performance of Utah, who "didn't miss anything" in his Academy Award-winning movie "The Good Companions", which offers "a rare combination of a character with enough charm to balance being dangerous and being dangerous." Sometimes he disarms, sometimes he's weak, he looks like an innocent person, and he watches everything."

Ray Liotta, whose handsomeness and mercurial traits acquired a magnetic quality in "The Good Comrades", looked seductive and terrifying with his blue eyes, exuding a bewildering smile and provocative self-confidence," according to critic Gilby.

"I've never wanted to be a gangster, I've never been in a fight," Liotta told People last year, refusing to be labeled a villain or a gangster, and apologizing for The Sopranos.

Liotta was born on December 18, 1954, in New Jersey, and studied drama at the University of Miami, having grown up in the home of Roman Catholic Alfred Liotta, an auto parts dealer, who he adopted at the age of 6 months.

He continued to believe he was Italian, until he met his mother in his forties, and discovered that he was Scottish.

On May 26, while Liotta was in the Dominican Republic filming "Dangerous Waters", he died in his sleep in his hotel room, at the age of 67.

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And 40 days did not pass since Liotta's death, until the American actor "James Caan" died on the sixth of this July, at the age of 82.

He is the star best known for his role as Sonny, the reckless son of a mafia boss, in the 1972 epic The Godfather.

Critic Andrew Pulver said his horrific death scene - which required him to be supplied with more than 140 explosive blood balls designed to simulate gunshot wounds - will remain prominent.

It was nominated for an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Golden Globe.

James "Edmund Kahn" was born on March 26, 1940, to a Jewish father who works as a butcher in the Bronx neighborhood of New York, and knew the way to acting when he began studying at Hofstra University, and met Francis Ford Coppola, who nominated him for the movie "The Godfather", and mourned him saying, "You will not be forgotten." His films and the many roles he has never played.

Before the "Godfather" boom, James played the role of a gambling cowboy in the movie "El Dorado" 1967. After "The Godfather", he played various roles in several films, where he played the role of a literature professor who struggles with gambling addiction in the movie "The Gambler". (The Gambler) 1974, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, then as a showman in the movie "Funny Lady" (1975), and was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

He also played the role of an elegant wardrobe breaker who manipulates gang leaders, in the movie "Thief" 1981, and the role of the novelist captive of the savage nurse in the horror movie "Misery" (Misery) 1990, whose director Rob Reiner mourned him, saying, "I loved working with him, Because he is a natural talented actor."

Then he returned to playing the role of a mafia man in the movie "Mickey Blue Eyes" 1999, before turning to comedy in the movie "Elf" in 2003.

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Two days after the death of James Caan, the third of the group, American actor Tony Sirico, died on July 8, at the age of 79, 3 weeks before his 80th birthday. He was born on July 29 July 1942, New York, to a Catholic family of Italian descent.

Siriko did not go to college as his classmates, due to his beginnings that paved the way for his violent role as a villainous, paranoid gangster.

He left school early, and "began to mix with the wrong kind of men," as he put it, and was arrested 28 times, the last of which was in 1970, and was sentenced to 4 years in prison, of which he spent 20 months, during which he met a representative group composed of convicts. He decided to bid farewell to the underworld and make acting his new life.

His appearance in the movie "Crazy Joe" in 1974 led to his obtaining membership in the Actors Guild, and secondary roles in cinema and television came to him, until the role of Pauli Gualtieri in the series "The Sopranos" made him resounding fame, and he presented him with the Screen Actors Guild Award in 2000. .

Siriko also acted in a group of gangster films, including the 1998 comedy "Mob Queen", and participated in 6 films by director Woody Allen. His colleague Michael Imperioli wrote of him that he was "loyal and kind-hearted", so much so that when he found out that his role in The Sopranos involved killing a woman, he told director David Chase, "Don't make me kill a woman, I won't put my hands on her," and Chase had to use a pillow to act out a scene strangulation.