Actor Alex Rocco , known for his character Moe Greene “The Godfather” , died at age 79 cancer victim at his home in Los Angeles, as reported on Monday his family in his Twitter account.
The death of actor happened last Saturday afternoon at home.
Rocco, with a film career of more than half a century, played at “The Godfather” to a casino owner desperately resists purposes Corleone family and just he is paying his daring with fatally shot one of his eyes.
The actor won a Emmy in 1990 for her role in the television comedy “The Famous Teddy B “.
Rocco was born as Alexander Federico Petricone in 1936 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and had a difficult adolescence because he was a member of a gang of youth.
After being arrested for his involvement in a gang fight, though not convicted, Rocco decided to move to California to be a waiter.
When you get to Los Angeles, he enrolled in school Leonard Nimmoy (“Star Trek”) , who honed his Boston accent and taught him much of what he knew, as he explained himself. In fact, I had a raid on the phrase being the voice of Roger Meyers Jr , President of the studies I &. S Studios, the studio that makes the famous drawings ‘Itchy and Scratchy’ ‘The Simpsons’.
The American made his debut in film in 1965, directed by Russ Meyer, in “Motor Psycho” and six years later would his famous phrase “The Godfather” – “Do not you know who I am ?.’m Moe Greene !!” -. , his “ticket to everywhere,” as he put it
Since then was frequent participation in gangster films like “The Friends of Eddie Coyle”
. Source: EFE
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