The 80 year-old Vincent Pastore was found dead in his Bronx residence by a neighbor on August 1. Deadline reports, "The death is believed to be from natural causes and is not being investigated by the medical examiner." The first time I remember seeing him was on a Law and Order episode in 1995, before he hit The Sopranos. Taking on the role of Big Pussy, a veteran soldier working under James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano, Pastore was able to tap into multiple elements of his talents, far beyond his mere ability to deliver hard-ass looks. As an eventually revealed traitor to the DiMeo crime family, Big Pussy was an endless balancing act, at times funny, charming, pathetic, vulnerable, daring, miserable, and, above-all-else, convincing as a guy whose betrayal would haunt Tony Soprano for the rest of his days.