The Museum of the Moving Image is planning on screening Burt Young films in the coming weeks in tribute to the Oscar nominated actor who died earlier this month in Los Angeles at the age of 83. Young was born and raised in Corona and rocketed to fame playing Paulie Pinnino, the curmudgeonly corner-man in Sylvester Stallone’s “Rocky” in 1976, a role that he would continue to play in five sequels.

“I’ve always been really a big fan of him as a character actor. I think he sort of came around in that kind of time for American character actors,” Museum of the Moving Image Curator of Film Eric Hynes told QNS. “I think that at the time, Hollywood and the American new wave was hungry for kind of authentic men and authentic women, but in particular, authentic male character actors."