Born on this day – James Gandolfini:

James Gandolfini

Actor

September 18, 1961 – June 19, 2013

Credits:

11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2005); 12 Angry Men (1997); 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2007); 19th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards (2014); 2 Years of Love (2017); 20/20 (2006); 2002 MTV Video Music Awards (2002); 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2014); 6th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2000); 7th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2001); 8MM (1999); 9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2003); A Civil Action (1998); A Stranger Among Us (1992); A Whole New Day (1999); Al rojo vivo con María Celeste (2007); Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq (2007); All the King's Men (2006); All works are good (2020); Angie (1994); Autopsy: The Last Hours of (2018); Brilliant But Cancelled (2002); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2024); Celebrity Page (2018–2019); Charlie Rose (2009); Chroma (2017); Cinema Verite (2011); City of Winners (2010); Club Soda (2006); Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music (2001); Corazón de... (2005–2006); Crimson Tide (1995); De 'Los Serrano' a 'Cuenta atrás' (2007); Democracy Now! (2013); Días de cine (2013); Down the Shore (2011); El último golpe de Tony Soprano (2008); Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013); Enough Said (2013); Entertainment Tonight (2019–2024); Fallen (1998); Film '06 (2006); Get Shorty (1995); Gun (1997); Guys Choice (2007 / 2010); HBO First Look (2001–2004); HBO: The Making of 'The Sopranos: Road to Respect' (2006); Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012); Her (2013); Hollywood Insider (2021); In the Loop (2009); Inside the Actors Studio (2004); Italian Movie (1995); James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend (2013); Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2008); Killing Them Softly (2012); King Cake: The New Orleans Mardi Gras Story (2024); Late Show with David Letterman (2004 / 2015); Lonely Hearts (2006); Making 'Cleaver' (2007); Making 'the Man Who Wasn't There' (2002); Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997); Mint Julep (2010); Money for Nothing (1993); Moving Image Salutes John Travolta (2004); Mr. Wonderful (1993); New World (1995); Nicky Deuce (2013); Night Falls on Manhattan (1996); Not Fade Away (2012); Perdita Durango (1997); Rank (2002); Reinventando Hollywood (2008); Romance & Cigarettes (2005); Saturday Night Live (2004); Secret Life of... (2012); Sesame Street (2002); Sesame Street: Being Brave (2013); Sex and the City: A Farewell (2004); She's So Lovely (1997); Shock! Shock! Shock! (1987); Special Collector's Edition (2013–2014); Stories of Lost Souls / Segment: A Whole New Day (2005); Stories USA / Segment: Club Soda (2007); Surviving Christmas (2004); Surviving Christmas: Unwrapping the Comedy (2004); Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak (2009); Terminal Velocity (1994); The 2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards (2014); The 51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1999); The 52nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2000); The 53rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2001); The 55th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2003); The 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2004); The 57th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2000); The 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2001 (2001); The 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2006); The 59th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2002); The 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2007); The 5th Annual GQ Men of the Year Awards (2000); The 63rd Annual Tony Awards (2009); The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards (2013); The Big Breakfast (2000); The Cinema Snob (2013); The Cove: My Friend is... (2010); The Drop (2014); The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013); The Juror (1996); The Last Castle (2001); The Making of 'Killing Them Softly' (2013); The Making of 'Lonely Hearts' (2007); The Man Who Wasn't There (2001); The Mexican (2001); The Mighty (1998); The Night Of (2016); The Oscars (2014); The Real Sopranos (2006); The Sopranos (1999–2007); The Sopranos: A Sitdown (2007); The Sopranos: Family Business (2001); The Sopranos: Road to Respect (2006); The Sopranos: Season 6 Invitation to the Set (2005); The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009); The Tony Danza Show (2004); The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling (2018); Today (2007); True Romance (1993); TV's Nastiest Villains (2014); Violet & Daisy (2011); Wartorn: 1861-2010 (2010); Welcome to the Rileys (2010); Where the Wild Things Are (2009); Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos (2024); WTF with Marc Maron (2013); Zero Dark Thirty (2012).

On this day in movie history - Killing Them Softly (2012)

Killing Them Softly

directed and written by Andrew Dominik,

based on the novel Cogan's Trade by George V. Higgins,

was released in the United States on November 30, 2012.

Music by Marc Streitenfeld.

Cast:

Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins, Ray Liotta, Trevor Long, Max Casella, Sam Shepard, George Carroll, Linara Washington, Ross Brodar, Wade Allen, Christopher Berry, Kenneth Brown Jr., Mustafa Harris, Dared Wright, John McConnell, Bryan Billingsley, Shannon Brewer, Roger Pfeiffer, Joe Chrest.