ABE VIGODA – NATURAL CAUSES

Abe Vigoda became widely known for his role as Salvatore Tessio on both Godfather Part 1 and 2 so we give credit to these two films for making him prominent and was known for television viewers for his appearance at Barney Miller and on its spin-off Fish as Phil Fish. He made his television debut in 1949 with Studio One In Hollywood’s episode called Two Sharp Knives with a role as a train passenger while made his first film appearance on Three Rooms in Manhattan on an uncredited role as a waiter.

Before his real death on January 26, 2016, he became a subject of numerous death hoaxes most notably back in 1982 where the People magazine reported his death but that time the actor was performing in Calgary in Canada then 5 years later a similar mistake happened when a media outlet referred him as “late Abe Vigoda” which was later corrected.