Straight Talk on Showroom Floor

Who’s the actor who played the bald moustache Globe Motors salesman in “Everybody Hurts“, the 45th episode of The Sopranos?

The salesman who tries to interest James Gandolfini‘s Tony Soprano in a Mercedes, I mean, but who quickly jettisons this idea when Tony inquires about Annabella Sciorra‘s Gloria Trillo. The salesman gives him Tony the lowdown — i.e., that Trillo, a former Globe salesperson, is dead by her own hand.

I’m asking because he’s terrific, this guy. A gravelly New Jersey voice, plain-spoken but a bit sleazy, and yet nakedly honest as far as it goes. And you can tell at the end of the scene that he knows Tony was somehow involved with Gloria.

Directed by Steve Buscemi and written by Michael Imperioli, “Hurts” aired on 10.20.02.