Emerging from Palermo, Gaetano Sperandeo entered the film world with a minor role in the Taviani brothers' 1983 drama Kaos and quickly moved to a part in Damiani's Pizza Connection two years later. He became a familiar face in Italian crime narratives, appearing in several installments of the television saga La piovra and taking a small role in Michael Cimino's The Sicilian. Notable cinematic perf…