Joseph Siravo Dies, The Sopranos Actor and Broadway Star Was 66 Joseph Siravo Dies, The Sopranos Actor and Broadway Star Was 66 Actor Joseph Siravo, who played Tony Soprano's father Johnny Boy on The Sopranos, has passed away after a battle with cancer. Joseph Siravo, the screen and Broadway actor best known for playing Tony Soprano's father on The Sopranos, has passed away. The actor reportedly died on Sunday after a long battle with cancer, and the news of his death was broken by Garry Pastore, one of Siravo's co-stars from The Sopranos, with an emotional Instagram post. "His performance [as] Johnny Boy Soprano was spot on and he also made a perfect John Gotti in Nick Sandow's