Best known as casino honcho Moe Greene in *The Godfather*, he had many more TV roles, such as one of Roger Carmel's henchman in a *Batman* episode, a snotty agent to Jon Cryer's *Teddy Z,* and Nancy McKeon's dad on *The Facts of Life*. 79.
CNN <http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/19/entertainment/alex-rocco-godfather-actor-dies-thr-feat/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28RSS%3A+CNN+-+Most+Recent%29> (link) Oddly he's the second person passing in the last few days who'd had acting lessons from Leonard Nimoy; the first was Dave Somerville <http://www.vintagevinylnews.com/2015/07/passings-dave-somerville-of-diamonds.html> (Vintage Vinyl News link), 81, of the Canadian doo-wop group the Diamonds, who'd guested in a *TOS* episode and gave the world that daffy theme song Lee Majors sang on *The Fall Guy*. B -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
