Junior Soprano illness and house arrest. According to series creator David Chase the name Junior was taken from one of his own older cousins. In season one it is stated that Junior is 70 years old, placing his birth date in 1928 or 1929. Corrado Soprano, Jr. is the son of Corrado and Mariangela D'Agostino Soprano, Italian immigrants who came over from the town of Ariano in 1911. Junior is Tony Soprano's uncle: Junior's younger brother is Tony's father Johnny Soprano. He tells the court-ordered psychologist when feigning mental incompetence that he was getting a haircut when he heard about the Assassination
Do Not Resuscitate (The Sopranos) objects and begs Tony not to let him die with such guilt over him. Junior also urges Tony to make peace with his mother. Tony then picks up his uncle in his arms and drives him to the emergency room. Do Not Resuscitate (The Sopranos) "Do Not Resuscitate" is the 15th episode of the HBO original series "The Sopranos" and the second of the show's second season. Written by Robin Green, Mitchell Burgess, and Frank Renzulli, and directed by Martin Bruestle, it originally aired on January 23, 2000. "* = credit only" Tony visits Junior in jail, upset that he