‘Green Book’ Actor's Body Dumped In NYC: NYPD, Report

NEW YORK CITY — The body of Frank Vallelonga Jr., an actor in the Oscar-winning film “Green Book,” was found dumped on a Bronx street this week after he died of a suspected drug overdose, according to police and a report.

A second man — Steven Smith, 35, of The Bronx — has been arrested and charged with concealment of a corpse, NYPD officials said.

Vallelonga, 60, was the namesake son of a Copacabana bouncer whose 1962 road trip through the segregated South with Black musician Don Shirley inspired the movie "Green Book."

The younger Vallelonga — who also appeared in the HBO series "The Sopranos" — played the role of his own uncle while Viggo Mortensen played his father, Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga Sr.

How Vallelonga’s path ended on a Bronx street is still under investigation, police said.

But investigators believe he died of a drug overdose, according to the New York Daily News. Smith had told authorities that Vallelonga was already dead in a car a woman left behind, the Daily News reported.