{"id":393291,"date":"2025-11-20T23:16:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/393291\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T23:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:16:20","slug":"gotti-jamesy-boy-star-was-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/393291\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Gotti&#8217;, &#8216;Jamesy Boy&#8217; Star Was 33"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCanadian actor <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/spencer-lofranco\/\" id=\"auto-tag_spencer-lofranco\" data-tag=\"spencer-lofranco\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spencer Lofranco<\/a>, known best for his starring roles in the films Gotti and Jamesy Boys, died Tuesday, his brother Santino Lofranco revealed on Instagram. He was 33.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLofranco\u2019s death is currently under investigation in British Columbia, Canada, where he passed, according to TMZ. The cause has not been determined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLofranco studied acting as a teenager at the New York Film Academy. His first major role came in 2013\u2019s At Middleton. He was cast as Conrad Hartman, a high school senior touring a college campus in the indie romantic comedy, starring alongside\u00a0Andy Garc\u00eda\u00a0and\u00a0Vera Farmiga. The film premiered at the\u00a0Seattle International Film Festival. He landed his first starring role in Trevor White\u2019s biographical crime drama film\u00a0Jamesy Boy, playing troubled teenager James Burns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe went on to co-star in Angelina Jolie\u2019s 2014 war drama Unbroken as Harry Brooks, opposite Mary-Louise Parker, Ving Rhames and Domhnall Gleeson. He next appeared in John Henry Hinkel\u2019s thriller film Home and as Billy in Hank Bedford\u2019s Dixieland, which premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival, alongside Riley Keough, Chris Zylka and Faith Hill. He also appeared in the 2016 biopic King Cobra about the life and early career of gay pornographic film actor Sean Paul Lockhart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLofranco\u2019s final screen appearance was in the role of John Gotti Jr. in the 2018 film Gotti, which starred John Travolta in the title role, along with Kelly Preston, Stacy Keach, Pruitt Taylor Vince, William DeMeo, Leo Rossi, Tyler Olson and Megan Leonard. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MCDGOTT_EC011.jpg\" alt=\"Spencer Lofranco dead\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"633\" width=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tJohn Travolta, left, and Spencer Lofranco in \u2018Gotti\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVertical Entertainment\/Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn his Instagram post Thursday, Santino shared photos of his brother during their childhood and a photo of Spencer with his dog.  You can see it below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian actor Spencer Lofranco, known best for his starring roles in the films Gotti and Jamesy Boys, died&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":393292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,31443,9455,186842,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-393291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-novid","10":"tag-obituary","11":"tag-spencer-lofranco","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115584578172613440","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}