David Proval

Birthday: 20 May 1942, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Birth Name: David Aaron Proval

Height: 169 cm

David Proval launched his acting career with a starring role in Mean Streets (1973), directed by Martin Scorsese, and has been working nonstop ever since. Notable features in which he has appeared include The Phantom (1996), The Brady Bunch Movie (1995) Four Rooms (1995) and The Shawshank Redemption (1994). He is currently set to appear in the inde... Show more »

[on playing Richie Aprile in The Sopranos (1999)] When I read the part, it offered to me a clear ima...Show more »

[on playing Richie Aprile in The Sopranos (1999)] When I read the part, it offered to me a clear image of what was at stake for that man at that point in his life, and it fused, in a way, with my own. That's very rare. What my life was about, what Richie Aprile's life was about... It came together. Show less «

[on the failure of Nunzio (1978)] The marketing on the movie fell apart, and then the editing, unghg...Show more »

[on the failure of Nunzio (1978)] The marketing on the movie fell apart, and then the editing, unghghh, whatever. So when that happened, I said 'I want no part of this city; I want no part of the movie business, they just break your heart.' I'd rather do my little plays in a basement somewhere and have fun, you know? So I just dropped ... off ... the map. Show less «

[on playing Italian-American characters] The neighborhood I grew up in was predominantly Italian and...Show more »

[on playing Italian-American characters] The neighborhood I grew up in was predominantly Italian and Jewish, so there is within my heritage some Italian influence. Show less «