Posted on 01/06/2026 9:28:34 AM PST by nickcarraway
In his real life, retired NYPD Detective Randy Jurgensen busted cop killers, drug dealers and street corner goons — but in his reel life he was the guy who whacked the godfather’s first born.
During his storied two-decade career with New York’s Finest and beyond, Jurgensen, 92, worked on more than 40 Hollywood films and television shows — from playing a cop in “The French Connection,” a wiseguy in “Donnie Brasco” and a killer in “The Godfather.”
“I really became known as the man who shot Sonny Corleone at the toll booth and I’m on the poster,” he told The Post ahead of being honored by the Detectives Endowment Association on Jan. 13 in Manhattan. “I machine-gunned him. That’s how I came into show business.”
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I remember when someone here at FR said that the toll booths were on the Jones Beach Causeway. I liked learning that.
Google AI said that road was later re-named the Wantagh Parkway, which is a term I remember hearing my parents say as we drove to a relative’s house in Watermill LI; I would have been eight or nine years old. So, more than sixty years ago.
If only Sonny Corleone had an EZ-Pass, he might still be alive.
As long as he’s not on the Delaware Tnpk.
If Sonny Corleone has Yoda, to teach him to control his anger, he might still be alive.
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