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Posted: 2022-12-02T18:12:56Z | Updated: 2022-12-02T18:12:56Z

Frank Vallelonga Jr., an actor whose credits include The Sopranos and 2019 Best Picture winner Green Book, was found dead outside a sheet metal manufacturing facility in the Bronx, New York, on Monday, the New York Police Department confirmed in a statement. He was 60.

Upon arrival, police observed an unidentified adult male, unconscious and unresponsive, on the ground at the location, police told HuffPost. The male had no obvious signs of trauma observed. EMS responded to the location and pronounced the male deceased at the scene.

Police said a cause of death has yet to be determined, but they have arrested and charged 35-year-old Bronx local Steven Smith with concealment of a human corpse, per the Los Angeles Times . Smith, the actors driver, said Vallelonga had overdosed.

That dude was dead already, Smith told police , according to a criminal complaint obtained by the New York Daily News. He overdosed. I didnt have anything to do with that.