Actor Abe Vigoda, who kickstarted his career in cinema with a role on the all time crime drama classic ‘The Godfather’, has died.
Vigoda, 94, peaceably passed away on Tuesday January 26, at his home in New Jersey.
“He died in his sleep, of natural causes. He was not sick,” his daughter, Carol Vigoda Fuchs, told Reuters.
Vigoda spent most of his early career in theatre and television, getting his big break in movies with his role in ‘The Godfather’, the first instalment of the classic trilogy, in 1972. He played the role of Salvatore Tessio, a mobster who was doomed to a swift fate after betraying the Corleone family.
He also played Detective Seargent Phil Fish in the hugely popular police comedy series “Barney Miller”; picking up three Emmy nominations for best supporting actor.
There has long been interest over Vigoda’s eventual fate, after PEOPLE magazine mistakenly declared him dead in 1982. It has since become a running joke that the increasingly aging actor often indulged in.
That joke is over now. May he rest in peace.

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