Where Are They Now - Friday, April 3, 2015

Hello fans,

This week we are catching up with actor Reni Santoni. You might remember him from his role as Chico in Dirty Harry, and for playing Poppy/Poppie on the TV series Seinfeld.

What is he doing now? Let's find out...

Take care,
Melissa

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--DEAD OR ALIVE?--
See if you know if the following celebrities have had a visit from the "Grim Reaper":

Bill Macy: Played Maude's husband, Walter, on the TV series "Maude", appeared in the movie "The Jerk"

David Brenner: Stand-up comedian known for his many appearances on "The Tonight Show"

Michael Cimino: Writer/director, films include "The Deer Hunter", "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" and "Heaven's Gate"

(Answer at the bottom)
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Reni Santoni
Learn More About Reni Santoni on Celebrity Nooz

BIRTH DATE: April 21, 1939, New York City, New York, U.S.

CLAIM TO FAME: He is known for his roles in the film Dirty Harry and the TV series Seinfeld.

INFO: Santoni's career began in off-Broadway theatre. His first big film role was in the 1964 film The Pawnbroker.

His first leading role was as the young actor in Carl Reiner's Enter Laughing. He also starred in 1971's Dirty Harry as Inspector "Chico" Gonzalez, in 1983's Bad Boys as prison official Ramon Herrera, and in the 1986 action film Cobra as detective Tony Gonzales.

He has made TV appearances on such shows as Barnaby Jones, Lou Grant, Hawaii Five-O, Hardcastle and McCormick, Hill Street Blues, The Odd Couple and Midnight Caller.

TRIVIA: Briefly played professional baseball and originally planned on being a sports journalist.

Made his reputation as an actor in Off-Broadway revues in which he specialized in portraying oddball characters.

WHERE IS HE NOW: Santoni continues to act on occasion. He appeared in the 2009 independent film Irene in Time as Sam, and on a 2012 episode of the TV series Franklin & Bash.

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CREDITS:

2012 Franklin & Bash (TV Series)...Judge Maurice Vincent
- Voir Dire (2012)

2009 Irene in Time...Sam

2009 Raising the Bar (TV Series)...Mr. Cansardi
- Hair Apparent (2009)

2005 Grey's Anatomy (TV Series)...Mr. Griswold
- Something to Talk About (2005)

2005 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series)...Frank Mejia
- 4x4 (2005) ... Frank Mejia

2004 Gang Warz...Father Luis

2003 Kingpin (TV Mini-Series)...General Valdez
- El Velorio (2003)

2002 According to Jim (TV Series)...Tony
- Pizza Boy (2002)

2001 Dr. Dolittle 2...Rat #2 (voice)

2001 V.I.P. (TV Series)...Luis Montez
- Goodfidellas (2001)

2000 Judging Amy (TV Series)...Clyde Tate
- The God Thing (2000)

2000 28 Days...Daniel

1999 Late Last Night (TV Movie)...Drunk

1999 Love Boat: The Next Wave (TV Series)...Boris Bolechek
- About Face (1999) ... Boris Bolechek

1999 Jesse (TV Series)...Pedro Vazquez
- The Parent Trap (1999) ... Pedro Vazquez

1998 The Tony Danza Show (TV Series)...Uncle Ernesto
- C'gar Face (1998)

1998 Doctor Dolittle...Rat #1 (voice)

1998 Can't Hardly Wait...Cop

1994-1998 Seinfeld (TV Series)...Poppie / Poppy

1998 The Practice (TV Series)...Roland Mapp
- Axe Murderer (1998)
- Food Chains (1998)

1997 Murder One (TV Series)...Judge Thomas Agajanian

1997 Dangerous Minds (TV Series)...Gerald Kaminsky
- Teach, Don't Touch (1997)

1997 Private Parts...Vallesecca

1995-1996 NYPD Blue (TV Series)...Det. Arnold Solomon / Sal Campisi
- Caulksmanship (1996) ... Sal Campisi
- Vishy-Vashy-Vinny (1995) ... Det. Arnold Solomon
- In the Butt, Bob (1995) ... Det. Arnold Solomon

1996 Walker, Texas Ranger (TV Series)...Don Carlos del Vega Garcia
- Codename: Dragonfly (1996)

1996 The Late Shift (TV Movie)...John Agoglia

1995 Renegade (TV Series)...Juan Carlos Prieto
- Offshore Thunder (1995)

1995 Hudson Street (TV Series)...Rudolph Santiago
- The Hit Parade (1995)
- The Man's Man (1995)

1995 The Brady Bunch Movie...Police Officer (uncredited)

1994 Dave's World (TV Series)...Mr. Martinez
- Please Won't You Be My Neighbor (1994)

1989-1994 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)...Juan Ramez / Lt. Caceras
- Roadkill (1994) ... Juan Ramez
- Three Strikes, You're Out (1989) ... Lt. Caceras

1993 Men Don't Tell (TV Movie)

1993 Groundhog Day...State Trooper (voice, uncredited)

1992 Dream On (TV Series)...Mr. Tribbiani
- It Came from Beneath the Sink (1992)

1992 Quantum Leap (TV Series)...Sgt. Lopez
- Lee Harvey Oswald - Oct 5, 1957-Nov 22, 1963: Part 2 (1992)
- Lee Harvey Oswald - Oct 5, 1957-Nov 22, 1963: Part 1 (1992)

1992/I Only You...Rueben the Bartender

1989-1991 Midnight Caller (TV Series)...Father Joe DiMaggio

1990 Equal Justice (TV Series)...Glen Newland
- Curses (1990)

1990 Life Goes On (TV Series)...Alonzo Salcedo
- It Ain't All It's Cracked up to Be (1990)

1989 Cat Chaser...Narrator (voice, uncredited)

1989 The Package...Chicago Police Lieutenant

1989 Murphy's Law (TV Series)...Dr. Mario Rodriguez
- Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing (1989)

1988 Rain Man (voice)

1988 Bright Lights, Big City...Additional Voices (voice)

1988 Miami Vice (TV Series)...Lt. Arturo Dominguez
- Badge of Dishonor (1988)

1988 Moonlighting (TV Series)...Señor Arredondo
- Los Dos Dipestos (1988)

1987 The Pick-up Artist...Man in Train Station (as Rene Santoni)

1986 Sanchez of Bel Air (TV Series)...Ricardo Sanchez

1984-1986 Hill Street Blues (TV Series)...Danny Santana / John Pescator

1986 Cobra...Sergeant Gonzales

1986 Second Serve (TV Movie)...Dr. Roberto Granato

1986 Joe Bash (TV Series)...Carlos
- Romance (1986)

1985 Hardcastle and McCormick (TV Series)...Sgt. John Thomas
- You're Sixteen, You're Beautiful, and You're His (1985)

1985 227 (TV Series)...Louie Esobar
- Pilot (1985)

1985 ABC Afterschool Specials (TV Series)...Mario
- No Greater Gift (1985) ... Mario

1985 Summer Rental...Announcer

1985 Radioactive Dreams...'Red' Hairstylist / Adult Harold (voice)

1985 Brewster's Millions...Vin Rapelito

1985 Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV Series)...Emiliano
- Ship of Spies (1985)

1985 Joanna (TV Movie)...Michael Braxton

1983 Manimal (TV Series)...Lt. Nick Rivera

1983 Lottery! (TV Series)...Victor
- Being a Winner (1983)

1983 Bad Boys...Ramon Herrera

1982 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid...Carlos Rodriguez

1982 CHiPs (TV Series)...Cleo Baxter
- Overload (1982)

1979 Charlie's Angels (TV Series)...Holder
- Cruising Angels (1979)

1979 The Rockford Files (TV Series)...Perry
- A Different Drummer (1979)

1978 They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way...Billy Joe

1978 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series)...Jimmy Rego
- A Death in the Family (1978)

1977 Lou Grant (TV Series)...Jim Keenan
- Scoop (1977)

1977 I Never Promised You a Rose Garden...Hobbs

1977 Delvecchio (TV Series)...George Coletta
- Licensed to Kill (1977)

1976 Bert D'Angelo/Superstar (TV Series)
- Serpent's Tooth (1976)

1976 Jigsaw John (TV Series)...Gabriel
- Follow the Yellow Brick Road (1976)

1975 The Rookies (TV Series)...Martinez
- Dead Heat (1975)

1974 Panic on the 5:22 (TV Movie)...Emil Linz

1973-1974 Barnaby Jones (TV Series)...Tony Santos / Chip Rawlins
- Foul Play (1974)
- See Some Evil... Do Some Evil (1973) ... Chip Rawlins

1973-1974 Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (TV Series)...Danny Paterno

1974 Indict and Convict (TV Movie)...Mike Belano

1972 The F.B.I. (TV Series)...Harry Scheller / Eddie Locke
- The Gopher (1972)
- Arrangement with Terror (1972)

1971 Dirty Harry...Chico

1971 Bearcats! (TV Series)...Ricardo Sandoval
- Powderkeg (1971)

1971 The Psychiatrist (TV Series)
- The Longer Trail (1971)

1971 The Bold Ones: The Senator (TV Series)...Alan Deurivieres
- George Washington Told a Lie (1971)

1971 The Odd Couple (TV Series)...Ernie Wilson
- The Hideaway (1971)

1970 The Student Nurses...Victor Charlie

1969 Love, American Style (TV Series)...Vito Salone (segment "Love and the Letter")
- Love and the Joker/Love and the Letter/Love and the Living Doll/Love and the Unlikely Couple (1969)

1969 Guns of the Magnificent Seven...Max

1968 Anzio...Pvt. Movie

1968 A Great Big Thing...Vinny Shea

1967 Enter Laughing...David Kolowitz

1966 Hawk (TV Series)...Nick Weller
- Thanks for the Honeymoon (1966) r

1965 The Trials of O'Brien (TV Series)...Leonard
- A Gaggle of Girls (1965)

1964 The Pawnbroker...Junkie selling radio (uncredited)

1964 East Side/West Side (TV Series)...Felipe Valdes
- Nothing But the Half Truth (1964)

1962 Strangers in the City...Scrounge (as Reni Sands)

To see Then & Now pictures of Reni Santoni, visit: Celebrity Nooz

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--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--
Bill Macy - ALIVE
Born: 05/18/1922

David Brenner - DEAD (Cancer)
Born: 02/04/1936 Died: 03/15/2014

Michael Cimino - ALIVE
Born: 02/03/1939

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WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...
3/31
Lalo Garcia (es), 43, Spanish basketball player (CB Valladolid).
Klaus Tschira, 74, German entrepreneur (co-founder of SAP), physicist and patron.

3/30
Washiqur Rahman Babu, 26, Bangladeshi blogger, stabbing.
Betty Churcher, 84, Australian arts administrator and curator, director of the National Gallery of Australia (1990-1997), cancer.
Helmut Dietl, 70, German film director (Schtonk!), lung cancer.
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, 93, Dutch astronomer.
Jim LaRue, 89, American football player and coach (Arizona Wildcats).
John H. Makin, 71, American economist, cancer.
Aniceto Molina, 75, Colombian cumbia musician, lung failure.
Preston Ritter, 65, American drummer (The Electric Prunes).
Roger Slifer, 60, American comic book author (Lobo).
Basil Soda, 47, Lebanese fashion designer.
Paul Torgersen, 83, American educator, President of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1993-2000).
Leon Wouters (es), 84, Belgian football player and coach.
Robert Z'Dar, 64, American film actor and producer (Maniac Cop, Tango & Cash), cardiac arrest.

3/29
William Delafield Cook, 79, Australian artist.
Matilde Conesa (es), 86, Spanish voice actress.
Robert L. Hite, 95, American World War II aviator (Doolittle Raider).
Juan Carlos Maccarone, 74, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Chascomús (1996-1999) and Santiago del Estero (1999-2005).
Shmulik Rosen, 89, Israeli quizmaster.
Peter Tarsey, 77, British Olympic diver (1956), shot.
Edward Zugibe, 92, American politician, Mayor of West Haverstraw, New York (1972-2007).

3/28
Chuck Brayton, 89, American Collegiate Hall of Fame
baseball player and coach (Washington State Cougars).
Gary Dahl, 78, American entrepeneur (Pet Rock), COPD.
Josie Jones, 57, English singer (The Mighty Wah!).
Miroslav Ondricek, 80, Czech cinematographer (Amadeus, Ragtime, A League of Their Own).
Jerzy Orlowski, 90, Polish footballer.
Gene Saks, 93, American stage and film director (The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park, Brighton Beach Memoirs), pneumonia.
Víctor Sánchez, 20, Venezuelan baseball player (Seattle Mariners), injuries sustained in a boating collision.
Ronald Stevenson, 87, Scottish composer and pianist.

3/27
Daundre Barnaby, 24, Jamaican-born Canadian Olympic runner (2012), drowning.
Rik Battaglia, 88, Italian actor (Duck, You Sucker!).
B.J. Crosby, 63, American singer and actress (Smokey Joe's Cafe).
Neville Denton, 80, New Zealand rugby league player.
Claus Dunne, 70, Irish hurler (Kilkenny).
Carlos Falchi, 70, Brazilian-born American accessories designer.
Hot Rod Hundley, 80, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers) and television broadcaster (Utah Jazz), Alzheimer's disease.
Annelise Hoegh, 66, Norwegian politician, MP for Oslo (1985-2001).
Yusuf Mohamed Ismail, Somali diplomat, Ambassador to Switzerland (since 2008), permanent representative to the United Nations (since 2008), shot.
Bob Lewis, 90, American politician, member of the Washington Senate (1973-1981).
Michael Rush, 65, American museum director, pancreatic cancer.
T. Sailo, 93, Indian brigadier and politician, Chief Minister of Mizoram (1978, 1979-1984), heart failure.
Anthony Scrivener, 79, British lawyer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
Gertrud Sigurdsen (sv), 92, Swedish politician, Minister of Social Affairs (1985-1989).
Amaro Silva, 57, Canadian politician.
Olga Syahputra, 32, Indonesian actor, comedian, singer and television host, meningitis.
Mate Trojanovic, 84, Croatian rower, Olympic gold medalist (1952).
Roman Voznik, 43, Ukrainian rebel legislator and battalion commander, shot.

3/26
Ennio Appignanesi, 89, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo (1993-2001).
Friedrich L. Bauer, 90, German computer scientist.
Dinkha IV, 79, Iraqi Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East (since 1976).
Albert Irvin, 92, British abstract artist.
Nurlan Kapparov, 44, Kazakh businessman, CEO of Kazatomprom (since 2014), heart attack.
Alonso Llano Ruiz, 83, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Istmina-Tado (1993-2010), leukemia.
Karl Moik, 76, Austrian television presenter (Musikantenstadl).
Ian Moir, 71, Scottish footballer (Manchester United, Wrexham), cancer.
John Renbourn, 70, British guitarist (Pentangle), heart attack.
Fred Robsahm, 71, Norwegian actor (Flashback).
Luís Miguel Rocha, 39, Portuguese author, cancer.
Tomas Transtromer, 83, Swedish poet and translator, Nobel Prize laureate in Literature (2011), stroke.
Hugo Walker (nl), 81, Dutch baseball player and sports commentator.

3/25
Indra Bania, 73, Indian actor.
John Bilyeu, 90, American television announcer (KMBC) and host (American Bandstand).
Dick Bond, 93, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (1975-1987).
George Fischbeck, 92, American television weatherman (KABC).
Ivo Garrani, 91, Italian actor (Black Sunday, Hercules, Caliber 9).
Martyn Goff, 91, British bookseller, administrator of the Man Booker Prize.
Tommy Maher, 92, Irish hurler.
Jimmy McGill, 68, Scottish footballer (Huddersfield Town, Hull City).
Jim Phillips, 79, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Minnesota Vikings).
Pedro Reyes, 53, Spanish comedian, humorist and actor.
Bill Slayback, 67, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
Allen Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Didgemere, 82, British industrialist and politician.
Ron Suart, 94, English football player and manager (Chelsea).
Joris Van Hauthem, 51, Belgian politician (Vlaams Belang), cancer.
Loy Young, 92, American college football (Dickinson State) and basketball (Chadron State) coach.