Legendary actor Alex Rocco, the Italian-American actor who portrayed Jewish gangster and Vegas Pioneer Moe Greene (a fictional portrayal of Bugsy Siegel)  in the Godfather saga, has passed away at the age of 79.

http://www.tmz.com/2015/07/19/godfather-actor-alex-rocco-dead-dies/

He also played the role of Charlie Polniaczek in The Facts of Life.

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"No, no.  You don't buy me out.  I buy YOU out!"

He had many other acting roles to his name. For example, he appeared in That Thing You Do (1996) as Saul Syler, the founder of the "Play-Tone" record company. He also played one of the badguys in the 1980 film Herbie Goes Bananas.

Sad to see him go. R.I.P. Alex :\'(

When I saw the face I couldn't place the face with the show and now I recognize him from The Facts Of Life.

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R.I.P. Alex Rocco  :\'(

There was this kid I grew up with; he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know.

We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street. Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition, we ran molasses into Canada... made a fortune. As much as anyone, I loved him and trusted him.

Later on he had an idea to build a city out of a desert stop-over for GI's on the way to the West Coast. That kid's name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts.

And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost or a statue of him in that town! Someone put a bullet through his eye. No one knows who gave the order. When I heard it, I wasn't angry; I knew Moe, I knew he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things. So when he turned up dead, I let it go. And I said to myself, this is the business we've chosen; I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business!