Remembering Ray Liotta

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Writing about somebody so shortly after they have passed away is always a strange prospect. If Ray Liotta was still alive, then I wouldn't be writing this today, but I don't want to give the impression that this has been written 'for clicks' to 'cash in' on his death, but instead to celebrate his life. Ray Liotta was not one of my all-time favourite actors. There are many performers I love who are the same age as Liotta or even older, and whose deaths would devastate me. I don’t believe in jinxes, but I believe in them enough not to list those actors here. Liotta might not be my favourite, but he is excellent in everything I have seen him in, and that's a rare quality.

For some reason, his stellar career seems to have gone a little bit unnoticed. When I told my wife of his passing she asked me who he was. I found myself calling Liotta "the Goodfellas guy". We reported his death, as many other sites did, referring to him as the voice of GTA's Tommy Vercetti. In almost all reports, Liotta is reduced down to one of these two roles. It makes sense - Goodfellas is his best known film and a legendary picture that has become world-renowned and iconic. GTA, meanwhile, is one of the biggest games on the planet and Vice City, in which Liotta plays its protagonist, is one of the most beloved. But Liotta is so much more than these two roles, and now seems as good a time as any to look back on the films that made Ray Liotta.

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Goodfellas has been labelled as his breakout performance in the wake of his passing, so I want to start with his actual breakout performance - Something Wild. Ray Liotta plays a man on parole who finds his wife embroiled in a