Ray Liotta, actor who played roles in ‘Goodfellas’ and ‘Field of Dreams,’ dies at 67

“Ray was engaged on a venture within the Dominican Republic known as ‘Harmful Waters’ when he handed. He handed in his sleep,” publicist Jennifer Allen wrote in an announcement to CNN. “He’s survived by his daughter, Karsen, and his fiancée, Jacy Nittolo.”

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Liotta’s profession spanned 44 years, beginning with a task within the tv cleaning soap opera “One other World.” He garnered reward for his breakthrough position within the movie “One thing Wild,” an motion romantic comedy that earned him his first Golden Globe nomination.

However it was roles in two motion pictures in back-to-back years that cemented his standing in Hollywood: the Kevin Costner-led “Discipline of Goals” in 1989 and Martin Scorcese’s mob drama “Goodfellas” in 1990.

In “Discipline of Goals,” Liotta portrayed Shoeless Joe Jackson who seems as a ghost. Regardless that the film tells a sports activities fantasy story, Jackson was one of many faces of the 1919 Black Sox scandal that concerned game-fixing through the World Sequence by the Chicago White Sox.

“Goodfellas” put Liotta’s voice to work. Because the movie’s protagonist, Liotta, as Hill, narrated the story’s 25-year biographical arc that follows the protagonist’s rise inside a New York Metropolis mob to his downfall and transition as an FBI informant.

Liotta went on to star in different notable movies, some generally of the crime style, reminiscent of “Cop Land,” “Blow,” “Narc,” “Smokin’ Aces,” and “The Place Past the Pines.”

Most just lately, he took on supporting roles in “Marriage Story” and “The Many Saints of Newark,” a prequel movie to “The Sopranos.”

Liotta was 67.

CNN contributed to this report.