James Gandolfini, Brought A TV Mob To Verona
He wasn’t born here, he didn’t grow up here, but Verona was the backdrop to some of the biggest moments in James Gandolfini’s life. As Tony Soprano, he filmed key scenes of The Sopranos in Verona, like those with his scheming mother Livia in her house at 55 Gould Street. Gandolfini might not have spent any time in Verona at all had The Sopranos’ creator, David Chase, gotten to know the town while his father managed a hardware store here in the 1960s. Gandolfini died in Rome in June.