'Goodfellas' actor Ray Liotta dies at 67

2012 filepic of actor Ray Liotta, who starred in Martin Scorsese's gangster classic 'Goodfellas'. Liotta has died in the Dominican Republic. He was 67. – Photo: Reuters

Actor Ray Liotta, who starred in Martin Scorsese's gangster classic Goodfellas, has died in the Dominican Republic, the country's cinema authority said Thursday. He was 67.

Liotta, whose blistering turn as real-life mobster Henry Hill in Scorsese's crime masterpiece won universal admiration, was shooting a new film in the country when he died, a spokeswoman for the Dominican Republic's General Direction of Cinema said.