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Old 01-26-2016, 4:28pm   #1
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Known for 'Barney Miller' and 'Godfather' roles.

Abe Vigoda, best known for portraying a gangster in “The Godfather” films and the glum Det. Fish on TV's “Barney Miller,” died Tuesday at his daughter's home in Woodland Park, N.J. He was 94.

Vigoda's daughter, Carol Vigoda Fuchs, said he died in his sleep of natural causes.

A veteran of New York theater, Vigoda was about 50 when he was cast in his first U.S. film, “The Godfather.” Director Francis Ford Coppola chose him from 500 other actors during an open casting call.

The Godfather: “I'm really not a Mafia person,” Vigoda told Vanity Fair in 2009. “But Francis said, ‘I want to look at the Mafia not as thugs and gangsters but like royalty in Rome.' And he saw something in me that fit Tessio as one would look at the classics in Rome.”

For the part, he essentially “became an Italian,” Vigoda, who was Jewish, recalled in 1997.

But it was his comic turn in “Barney Miller,” which starred Hal Linden and ran from 1975 to 1982, that brought Vigoda's greatest recognition.

The show featured Linden as captain of a motley precinct crew. Vigoda played the cranky detective whose every breath sounded like it could be his last. With his deadpan delivery, he was “the hit of the show,” according to “The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable Shows.”

He received three consecutive Emmy nominations for the role and starred in a spin-off, “Fish,” that aired in 1977 and 1978. For several months, he appeared in both shows.
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94 is a good run.
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He was old when I watched him on Barney Miller.

Funny too.
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He was old when I watched him on Barney Miller.

Funny too.
I was thinking the same thing.

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94 is a good run.
I'd be real happy with that.


My luck I'll be belly up in the morning...

I've seen a lot of the shows mentioned above, but will always remember him from the Godfather

R.I.P Abe..

May you sleep with the fish...
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94 is a good run.
His career spans eight decades... that's longer than most people live...
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94 is a good run.

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Awwwww Fish. Long life!!
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Fish with Phish. He's the mascot. Abe Vigoda and the Vigoda Dancers.

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He had a great run
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He played a lot of good characters As said earlier, 94 is a good run too.
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