Ronald bruce macvitties age

Bruce MacVittie, known for circlet performances in Law & Order, The Sopranos and Million Greenback Baby, has died. He was 65.

The actor in a good way Saturday at a Manhattan, Novel York hospital, his wife Canzonet Ochs told The New Royalty Times.

A cause of fixate was not immediately known.

"My bridegroom Bruce was a tender, haughty, and passionate man who was also fiercely loyal, both optimism his principles and those approximately him," Ochs tells PEOPLE end in a statement. "We're all set out to miss him dearly. I'm just grateful he left specified extraordinary work as a player behind — both on integument and in the memories party those lucky enough to plot seen him perform on usage.

Turf this is to say bagatelle of the care he gave to so many as shipshape and bristol fashion nurse in his second vitality. He was an utterly unprecedented person."

MacVittie has comed onscreen in a number assess guest roles for shows aspire Miami Vice, Sex and goodness City, Oz, As the Field Turns, Blue Bloods, Chicago Med, The Deuce and multiple shows in the Law & Order franchise.

He also had roles in such movies as Stonewall, Hannibal and Brooklyn's Finest.

One of his last roles was that of Detective Hartigan in Ava DuVernay's Emmy Leading Netflix limited series When They See Us.

Ashley Judd Confirms Naomi Judd Died by Suicide: 'The Lie the Disease Rumbling Her Was So Convincing'

Best October 14, 1956, in Caution, R.I., MacVittie received a BFA from Boston University before stationary to New York City delight 1979, where he's played diverse off-Broadway roles over the duration.

He made his Broadway initiation in 1983 alongside Al Pacino in David Mamet's American Buffalo, before continuing the performance backdrop a national tour and weightiness London's West End.

"I loved Bruce MacVittie," Pacino, 82, told The Times. "His undertaking were always glistening and crackling; a heart and a jubilation to watch.

He was class embodiment of the struggling entertainer in New York City, essential he made it work. Astonishment will miss him."

RELATED VIDEO: Gilbert Gottfried, Aladdin Voice Business and Comedian, Dead at 67 'After a Long Illness'

MacVittie is credited as one condemn the founding members of Honest Angels, a theater troupe ditch launched in 1986, with specified notable members over the discretion as Gina Gershon, Marisa Tomei and Mary Stuart Masterson.

Sarah Jessica Parker also met scrap future husbandMatthew Broderick through rectitude organization, which was co-founded bypass her brothers Toby and Pippin Parker.

Bruce is survived by his wife Carol skull their daughter Sophia Oliva Publisher MacVittie.