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‘Barney Miller’ character actor Vigoda dies at 94 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Character actor Abe Vigoda, whose leathery, sad-eyed face made him ideal for playing the over-the-hill detective Phil Fish in the 1970s TV series Barney Miller and the doomed Mafia soldier in The Godfather, died Tuesday at age 94. Vigoda’s daughter, Carol Vigoda Fuchs, told The Associated Press that Vigoda died Tuesday morning in his sleep at Fuchs’ home in Woodland Park, New Jersey. The cause of death was old age. “This man was never sick,” Fuchs said.
His death brought to an end years of questions on whether he was still alive — sparked by a false report of his death more than three decades ago. Vigoda worked in relative obscurity as a supporting actor in the New York theatre and VIGODA in television until Francis Ford Coppola cast him in the 1972 Oscar-winning The Godfather.
Vigoda played Sal Tessio, an old friend of Vito Corleone’s (Marlon Brando) who hopes to take over the family after Vito’s death by killing his son Michael Corleone (Al Pacino). But Michael anticipates that Sal’s suggestion for a “peace summit” among crime families is a setup and the escorts Sal thought were taking him to the meeting turn out to be his executioners. “Tell Mike it was only business,” Sal mutters to consigliere Tom Hagen, played by Robert Duvall, as he’s led away. In a statement, Duvall said Tuesday it was “great working
with Abe in The Godfather and wonderful to have him among us. We had some great memories together and he will really be missed.” The great success of the film and The Godfather Part II made Vigoda’s face and voice, if not his name, recognizable to the general public and led to numerous roles, often as hoodlums. But it was his comic turn in Barney Miller that brought Vigoda’s greatest recognition. Vigoda remained a regular on Barney Miller until 1977 when he took the character to his own series, Fish.
He remained a popular character actor in films, including Cannonball Run II, Look Who’s Talking, Joe Versus the Volcano and North. His resemblance to Boris Karloff led to his casting in the 1986 New York revival of Arsenic and Old Lace, playing the role Karloff originated on the stage in the 1940s. For 30 years, he worked in the theatre, acting in dozens of plays in such diverse characters as John of Gaunt in Shakeseare’s Richard II (his favourite role) and Abraham Lincoln in a short-lived Broadway comedy Tough to Get Help.
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