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Abe Vigoda, the character actor who found fame in “The Godfather” and “Barney Miller,” has died at age 94 

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Abe Vigoda, the character actor who found fame in “The Godfather” and “Barney Miller,” has died at age 94
Tuesday, January 26, 2016 2:47 PM EST

Abe Vigoda, the sad-faced actor who emerged from a workmanlike stage career to find belated fame in the 1970s as the earnest mobster Tessio in “The Godfather” and the dyspeptic Detective Phil Fish on the hit sitcom “Barney Miller,” died on Tuesday morning in Woodland Park, N.J. He was 94, having outlived by about 34 years an erroneous report of his death that made him a cult figure.

His daughter Carol Vigoda Fuchs, told The Associated Press that Mr. Vigoda had died in his sleep at her home.
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