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Alex Rocco (born Alessandro Federico Petricone Jr.; February 29, 1936 – July 18, 2015) was an American actor. Known for his distinctive, gravelly voice, he was often cast as villains, including Moe Greene in The Godfather (1972) and his Primetime Emmy Award –winning role in The Famous Teddy Z .
Tough, gruff, thick-browed, volatile-looking character actor Alex Rocco was born Alessandro Federico Petricone, Jr. on February 29, 1936, to Italian immigrants in Cambridge, Mass. He grew up a member of Boston's Winter Hill gang (his nickname was "Bobo") and was briefly detained regarding a murder at one point after an alleged personal incident ...
- Actor
- February 29, 1936
- 2 min
- July 18, 2015
Jul 20, 2015 · Born Alexander Federico Petricone in 1936 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Rocco was - according to a US organised crime informant - a young hanger-on of the Boston area's Winter Hill Gang. After...
Character actor Alex Rocco, who played casino owner Moe Greene in “The Godfather” and appeared in dozens of other movies and TV shows, died Saturday of cancer in Studio City, Calif. He was 79.
Jul 20, 2015 · As Alex Petricone, Mr. Rocco also was one of four men charged in a brawl in a Somerville diner. More dramatically, he was arrested in 1961 after the midday murder of Charlestown crime figure ...
- Bryan Marquard
Jul 19, 2015 · By David Morgan. Updated on: July 19, 2015 / 11:31 AM EDT / CBS News. Alex Rocco, an Emmy Award-winning character actor best known for portraying mobster Moe Greene in "The Godfather," died on ...
Jul 19, 2015 · Massachusetts-born as Alexander Federico Petricone, Rocco studied acting with Leonard Nimoy, according to The Hollywood Reporter . Rocco was a character actor who often...
