How old is abe vigoda

Offstage he was an active athlete who regularly jogged and played handball, a sport he still pursued in his late 80s. The murderous character in the black comedy is famously said by other characters to resemble Boris Karloff, a great joke back when the real Karloff was playing him. Abraham Charles Vigodah was born Feb. His father was a tailor. A brother, Bill, was a comic-book artist, mainly for the Archie enterprise.

After making his stage debut at 17, Vigoda regularly appeared in New York productions and dozens of touring shows. In total, he acted in about 25 films and 75 television shows. Often, he was typecast as a Mafia figure or a policeman. Vigoda also appeared with actress Betty White when both were in their late 80s in a commercial for Snickers that debuted during the Super Bowl. Their advanced ages were a point of the punch line. It was just the kind of wizened role that even decades later could help foster Internet skirmishes over whether Vigoda was alive or dead -- he was erroneously reported to have died in I found this to be a myth.

Before he making it onscreen, Vigoda earned his acting stripes on and off Broadway, performing Shakespeare, Strindberg and Shaw. Vigoda died about 34 years after People magazine started the rumor that the actor was dead. He played up the mistake by posing for a photograph published in Variety in which he was sitting up in a coffin and holding a copy of People.

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