An actor who usually plays the bad guy on screen got the chance to be a real-life hero when he stopped a potential abduction near his home in New Jersey.

George Pogatsia is one of those actors who often is cast as a possible suspect or seedier character, as he has done on "Law & Order" and "The Sopranos." But he will never forget the real crime he thwarted outside his Jersey City home.

"This guy was just insistent on trying to get this girl to go with him," he told NBC New York.

Pogatsia said he saw a 19-year-old girl stumbling down the street with her cousin, visibly intoxicated, along with a strange man who looked like he was about to kidnap her.

"She was under 5 feet [tall] herself. This guy was probably about 6'2 and he took them by the hand and pulled them down the street," said P

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