Denton Cooley 1960s. He and his colleagues worked on developing new artificial heart valves from 1962 to 1967; during that period, mortality for heart valve transplants fell from 70% to 8%. In 1969, he became the first heart surgeon to implant an artificial heart designed by Domingo Liotta in a man, Haskell Karp, who lived for 65 hours. The next year, in 1970, "he performed the first implantation of an artificial heart in a human when no heart replacement was immediately available." Cooley's interests included basketball, which he played in high school and as a three-year letterman for the UT men's basketball
Ray Liotta Pitt and James Gandolfini in the 2012 Andrew Dominik film "Killing Them Softly" and the 2013 Ariel Vromen film "The Iceman" features Liotta as the character of Roy DeMeo. He had a supporting role in "Muppets Most Wanted" (2014). In 2014, Liotta played a preacher in the faith-based film "The Identical". Liotta starred in the Western miniseries "Texas Rising" for The History Channel in 2015. Other projects include "Kill the Messenger" with Jeremy Renner, "Stretch" with Chris Pine and a David Guetta video. Since June 2015, Liotta narrates the AMC docu-series "The Making of the Mob". In 2016, Liotta began