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Lugar y fecha de nacimiento. Abe Vigoda (1921 - ) Biography from Baseline Occupation: Actor Born: February 24, 1921, New York, NY Education: Theatre School of Dramatic Arts, Carnegie Hall, New York Long-faced, rather ashen-looking, instantly recognizable character player, who after a long apprenticeship, has carved a modest, beloved niche in the annals of popular culture with a series of dour, often comically gloomy roles. Vigoda served as straight man for Jimmy Durante and Ed Wynn on TV's All Star Revue in the early 1950s, but for many years was busiest on the stage, both in New York and on tour. His extensive stage credits have ranged from Marat/Sade to Richard II (he played John of Gaunt for the New York Shakespeare Festival) to Tough to Get Help, in which he played Abraham Lincoln. Middle age, though, brought Vigoda the most success, as his typically slow, soft-spoken delivery and his beautifully drooped features made him ideal for both saturnine villains and amusing sad sacks. His nasty Mafia boss Tessio in Francis Ford Coppola's landmark EL PADRINO (1972) and EL PADRINO 2 (1974) really launched a feature film career. TV, though, brought Vigoda his greatest fame when he created his most indelible role, that of the aging, exhausted, cynical Sgt. Fish on the deliciously dry sitcom Barney Miller. He only stayed with the show from 1975-77 (leaving partly over ongoing salary and billing disputes), but his deadpan delivery briefly made him a TV star—as when one character remarked on Vigoda's remarkable resemblance to Boris Karloff and the nearly comatose Fish quipped, That's because we're both dead. Fish (1977-78), in which his retired police detective had to cope with an unruly group of problem schoolchildren. Vigoda, always looking older than his years, has subsequently kept busy in a wide range of features including THE CHEAP DETECTIVE (1978), MIRA QUIEN HABLA (1989) as John Travolta's 100 year-old grandfather), and INFIERNO BLANCO (1994). TV movies have included EXPERTOS EN LEVANTES (1978) and THE DANCER'S TOUCH (1989), and the forever vigorous stage actor was the perfect choice to recreate Karloff's 1940s stage role in a 1986 Broadway revival of Arsenic and Old Lace. 1973 THE DON IS DEAD/BEAUTIFUL BUT DEADLY performer 1973 TOMA performer 1974 NEWMAN'S LAW performer 1974 THE STORY OF PRETTY BOY FLOYD performer 1976 HAVING BABIES performer 1978 THE CHEAP DETECTIVE performer 1980 GRIDLOCK performer 1984 CANNONBALL RUN II performer 1986 VASECTOMY, A DELICATE MATTER performer 1988 PLAIN CLOTHES performer 1990 KEATON'S COP performer 1993 BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM performer 1993 HOME OF ANGELS performer 1993 ME AND THE KID performer 1994 REGRESO A CASA (1994) performer 1995 JURY DUTY performer
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