Robert de niro sr biography of alberta

American expressionist painter (1922–1993)

In this article, the surname is De Niro.

Robert Henry Bob De Niro (May 3, 1922 – May 3, 1993), better known as Robert De Niro Sr.,^[1][2] was an American artist and the father of actor Robert De Niro.^[3]

Life and early career

Bob De Niro was born in Syracuse, New York, to an Irish-American mother, Helen M.

(née O'Reilly; 1899–1999). Helen's mother was Mary E. Burns (born to John and Mary Burns) and her father was Dennis Francis O'Reilly, born to Dundrum's Ellen Hall, the second wife of Edward O'Reilly.^[4] There was previous confusion about Dennis' maternity, his mother previously thought to be Edward's second wife Margaret.^[5]

De Niro's Italian-American father, Henry Martin De Niro (1897–1976), was born to parents who emigrated from Ferrazzano in 1887, Angelina Mercurio and Giovanni Di Niro.^[6]

Bob was the eldest of three children; he a