Tributes to ‘One of the greatest actors of any time’

Gandolfini, 51, who died on Wednesday while on holiday in Rome, refused to be bound by his star-making role in the HBO series that brought him three Emmy Awards during its six-season run.
“He was a genius,” said the show’s creator David Chase. “Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of the greatest actors of this or any time. A great deal of that genius resided in those sad eyes.”