Thanks for saying it Arab. His father was Robert Deniro Sr, a painter of some renowned in his own right before The Man We Know As Bobby Deniro became famous. This would place him solidly in the upper middle class, despite the attempts to portray him as a paisano. In fact, Robert Deniro was billed as Robert Deniro Jr in his early films to distinguish himself from his also famous father. incidentally, his mother is reputedly Jewish (making him Jewish) though I have read conflicting accounts of this.