Alex Rocco
Alexander Federico Petricone, Jr. (* February 29, 1936 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American actor.
Life and career
Rocco, then still Petricone, grew up in Somerville, Massachusetts, the son of Mary, née di Biase, and Alessandro Sam Petricone on. He is of Italian descent. In his early youth he had connection to the Irish Winter Hill gang and the McLaughlin -course and in 1961 together with Buddy McLean, the boss of the Winter Hill Gang, was arrested in Charlestown. However, for the charges against him, there was not. After his release, he left the Boston area and in 1962 moved to California. He then took the name Alex Rocco. Initially he worked as a bartender in Santa Monica, he took in the aftermath acting classes with Leonard Nimoy, who recommended him, nor to take additional language classes, as his Boston accent was very strong.
His acting career began in 1965 Rocco Motorpsycho ... like wild stallions, a film by cult director Russ Meyer. Rocco played in the vet Cory Maddox, the young woman is raped by three youths. In 1967 he took over the role of Michael Mosconi in the television series Batman. In the blaxploitation Production Detroit 9000 from 1973, he served as Lt.. Danny Bassett a minority with " all the black bulls " in the film, as he put it. 1977 Rocco played the Moe Greene, one of his most famous roles in the Mafia film The Godfather: The Saga. Surprised, he confessed in an interview that he would still addressed to this role of young people. But also on his role in Wedding Planner - love, engaged, scheduled it get much response from younger viewers.
In the action-comedy The long death of stuntman Cameron 1980 he played the police chief Jake. This film, he holds together with the friends of Eddie Coyle, where he served as Jimmy Scalise be seen on the side of the great Robert Mitchum, one of the greatest cult films. From 1981-1988, he starred as Charlie Polniaczek in the television series The Facts of Life. For his work in the television series Teddy Z ( The Famous Teddy Z) in the years 1989/1990 Rocco was honored with an Emmy.
Also worked on The Simpsons Rocco from 1990-1997 with and lent his voice to Roger Myers Jr. In the Tom Hanks movie That Thing You Do! ( 1996), he landed a role as Hanks knew him from The Famous Teddy Z ago and liked how he insisted in an interview. 1991 Rocco embodied in the British film A Pope for kissing the figure of a cardinal named Rocco. The animated film A Bug's Life (1998) have commanded her new experiences as an actor, he said after the film. 2006, he was again in a Mafia movie. In Find Me Guilty - The Mafia trial, he took over the role of Nick Calabrese, directed by Sidney Lumet. In the drama series Magic City, he embodied the Jewish bookmaker Arthur Evans, who has never seen a temple inside. The house on the other side of the road ( The House Across the Street ) is called a horror thriller from 2013, in which Rocco is seen as Mr. Barnes.
Private
After moving to Los Angeles was Rocco member of the religious community Bahaitum. In 1964 he married his first wife, Sandra Elaine Garrett, who brought her son Marc into the marriage who was adopted by him. Together, the couple has a daughter and a grandson. Sandra Rocco died in 2002 aged 59 from cancer. Marc Rocco, who worked as a film producer, director and screenwriter, died in 2009 in his sleep. In October 2005, Rocco entered into a marriage with Shannon Wilcox.