Danny Aiello Net Worth At The Time Of His Death

Danny Aiello Net Worth

This is one of the questions that people ask the most about Danny Aiello’s net worth, and although they always end up answering it on other pages with an “I don’t know, you know” or “it depends” if there are some estimates that various web portals mention.

Aiello was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Salvatore “Sal” Frangione in the Spike Lee film Do the Right Thing (1989) who had a net worth of $6 million at the time of his death in 2019.

Biography

Danny Aiello was born on June 20, 1933, in Manhattan, New York, United States.

He was the fifth of six children of Frances Pietrocova, a native seamstress from Naples, Italy, and worker Daniel Louis Aiello, Sr. His father abandoned the family even though his wife had gone blind.

He moved to the South Bronx, an area of ​​the Bronx when he was seven years old, and later attended James Monroe High School. At sixteen, he lied about his age to enlist in the United States Army, and after serving for three years, he returned to New York, working various jobs, as a doorman for the legendary comedy club, The Improv. One of the most characteristic secondary of North American cinema.

He embodies the archetypal Italian-American character of little expression but with an intimidating presence.

Before working as an actor, he was the president of the union of the famous buses ” Greyhound “, until he began to play small roles in cinema from 1972. Three years later he embarked on a fruitful theatrical career that allowed him to be nominated twice for the prestigious Joseph Jefferson award, winning an Obie award, an Emmy award, and being nominated for an Oscar for his work in Do the Right Thing, of Spike Lee. Gifted with an imposing physique, he knows how to mix tender papers with tough ones.

In 2014, he published his autobiography, I Only Know Who I Am When I Am Somebody Else: My Life on the Street, On the Stage, and in the Movies via Simon & Schuster.

Married to Sandy Cohen since 1955, he is the father of stuntman and actor Danny Aiello III (who died on May 1, 2010, of pancreatic cancer), Rick Aiello, Jaime Aiello, and Stacey Aiello.

Danny Aiello passed away on Friday, December 12, 2019, at the age of 86, in a hospital in New Jersey.

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