Sonny Grosso

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Sonny Grosso

Sonny Grosso Death

Sonny passed away on January 22, 2020 at the age of 89 in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.

Sonny Grosso death quick facts:
  • When did Sonny Grosso die?

    January 22, 2020
  • How old was Sonny Grosso when died?

    89
  • Where did Sonny Grosso die? What was the location of death?

    Manhattan, New York, NY, USA

Sonny Grosso Birthday and Date of Death

Sonny Grosso was born on July 21, 1930 and died on January 22, 2020. Sonny was 89 years old at the time of death.

Birthday: July 21, 1930
Date of Death: January 22, 2020
Age at Death: 89

Sonny Grosso - Biography

Salvatore "Sonny" Grosso is a movie and television producer and former New York City Police Department detective, noted for his role in the case immortalized in the book and movie versions of the French Connection. He was born in 1930 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Grosso and his partner Eddie Egan, and other NYPD detectives, broke up an organized crime ring in 1961 and seized 112 pounds of heroin, a record amount at the time. The investigation was the subject of a book by Robin Moore and an Academy Award-winning motion picture.
In 1976, Grosso retired from the NYPD, and subsequently became a movie and TV producer, involved in many productions including 1970s cop shows like Kojak and Baretta. Grosso actually helped revolutionize the role of the technical adviser/consultant for cop shows and movies, with film critic James Monaco once observing, "Sonny Grosso has had a hand in most of the major cop films and television series of the 1970s." Monaco also jokingly speculated that someday scholars would discuss "Grossovian subtexts" about the period’s police dramas.

Grosso was born in 1930 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Moore wrote in The French Connection, that "[he] was an only son with three sisters. When his father, a truck driver, died suddenly at thirty-seven, Sonny, the eldest, became the head of the family at fifteen. He treated his sisters with fatherly care." Grosso recalled, "Even after our dad's untimely passing, our beloved mother, Lillian, never looked at another guy and would always put us first. She would act as if it was always 'Blue Skies' and 'My Blue Heaven,' as her favorite performer Bing Crosby used to sing."

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