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Profile of Alex Rocco
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Alex Rocco |
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29th February 1936 |
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia Alex Rocco is an American film actor. He was born Alexander F. Petricone in 1936 in Somerville, Massachusetts. According to Vincent Teresa in My Life in the Mafia, Charlestown, Massachusetts mobster George McLaughlin tried to pick up Rocco's girlfriend on Labor Day weekend 1961, setting off the Irish Mob Wars. Petricone was a suspect in the October 1961 slaying of Bernie McLaughlin, but never charged. He moved to Hollywood and became an actor using the name Alex Rocco. In what might be considered type casting, he played gangsters in the movies, The Godfather and The Friends of Eddie Coyle.
He has also done comedy and provided voices in such movies as Boris and Natasha, Dudley Do-Right, and The Wedding Planner.
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