sentences:  While a technical advisor, he also played small roles in such groundbreaking movies as "The French Connection", "The Godfather" and "The Seven-Ups".In 1976, Grosso retired from the NYPD, and subsequently became a movie and TV producer, involved in many productions including 1970s cop shows like "Kojak" and "Baretta".Grosso actually helped revolutionize the role of the technical adviser/consultant for cop shows and movies, with film critic James Monaco once observing, "Sonny Grosso has had a hand in most of the major cop films and television series of the 1970s."