Actor Abe Vigoda, 94

“The sad-faced actor who emerged from a workmanlike stage career to find belated fame in the 1970s as the earnest mobster Tessio in The Godfather and the dyspeptic Detective Phil Fish on the hit sitcom Barney Miller, died on Tuesday morning in [New Jersey]. He was 94, having outlived by about 34 years an erroneous report of his death that made him a cult figure.”