Abe Vigoda

Abe Vigoda (born February 24, 1921, in New York City) is an American movie and television actor best known for his supporting character roles, notably as mobster Sal Tessio in the 1972 movie The Godfather and as Detective Sgt. Fish on the television series Barney Miller and the spinoff Fish. Before "Barney Miller", he made a few appearances on the ABC-TV soap "Dark Shadows".

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February 24 - 1921 - New York City - American - Actor - 1972 - The Godfather - Barney Miller - Fish - ABC-TV - Dark Shadows

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He has been mentioned in popular works by artists such as the Beastie Boys. He makes regular appearances as himself on the television show Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

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Beastie Boys - Late Night with Conan O'Brien

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In 1982, Vigoda enjoyed a little extra publicity when People magazine erroneously declared him dead. Vigoda took the error with good humor, posing for a photograph showing him sitting up in a coffin, holding the magazine in question. Since then his erroneous death has remained a running joke for Vigoda.

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1982 - People - Erroneously declared him dead

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In 2002, Greg Galcik recorded a gothic rock song Abe Vigoda's Dead, a parody of Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus.

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2002 - Greg Galcik - Gothic rock - Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus

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The Abe Vigoda Status extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser, released in late 2004, shows "Abe Vigoda's current status" in the status bar of the Firefox browser (at the time of this writing, it claims that Mr. Vigoda is "alive"). Originally, it retrieved Mr. Vigoda's status from abevigoda.com. On 14 February, 2005, the extension was listed on Fark.com. Due to massive publicity generated by this listing, abevigoda.com was temporarily knocked out of commission, in a process that is often called "farking". For about 18 hours afterward, the current status said "farked" instead of "alive". The extension was later changed to retrieve Mr. Vigoda's status from the extension author's website, instead of from abevigoda.com.

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Mozilla Firefox - 2004 - 14 February - 2005 - Fark.com - Farking

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