Paul Herman Passes Away On His 76th Birthday
Character actor Paul Herman passes on his birthday.
It’s always sad to see actors that you watched in some of your favorite shows pass, and this one really stinks. Paul Herman who played both Herman, Vince Chases money man in Entourage and Beansie in the Sopranos passed away at the age of 76 on his birthday.
I watched Entourage before the Sopranos and would cackle when Hermans character Marvin would call Vince to complain about his financial status. “BAD WAS LAST YEAR, THINGS ARE FUCKING DISASTROUS NOW. YOU’RE LIKE KATRINA WITH A BLACK CARD.”
His witty quips and old man anger added just another flash of hilarity to such a great show. He wasn’t a major character, but he was great in the little scenes he appeared him.
Now Herman was in a great HBO Max show in Entourage, but he was in arguably one of the best television shows of all time, the Sopranos. Herman appeared in five episodes of the mob drama as a character named Beansie.
Beansie was one of the few mobsters to not get killed throughout the series. He began as a drug dealer and eventually got out of the drug dealing business to invest is money into a series of successful pizza parlors called Beansie's Pizza in Elizabeth, NJ.
I have to give Beansie some credit though; he had the biggest balls of any character. When Richie Aprile got out of prison after a decade, he confronted Beansie and tried to extort him for money because he believed the reason he went to prison was because of Beansie. Even after taking a real good beating and a pot of coffee to the head, Beansie didn’t back down. That was until that scumbag Richie Aprile ran Beansie over, paralyzing him.
Herman appeared in many other great works like Goodfellas as the Pittsburgh connection and in American Hustle, but I’ll always know him as Beansie and Herman.