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Frank Campanella is dead at age 87. Frank Campanella was one of those venerable character actors; someone whose face you remember, but just can’t tease your brain to remember his name.

Mr. Campanella’s signature role was the tough guy and it was something he gave us in some 100 movies. The NY Times article tells that “his movie credits included parts in ‘Dick Tracy,’ ‘Pretty Woman,’ ‘Beaches,’ ‘Overboard’ and ‘The Flamingo Kid.’

His TV roles included stints with ‘The Fall Guy’, ‘Hardcastle and McCormick’, ‘St. Elsewhere’, ‘The Love Boat’, ‘Barnaby Jones’, ‘Maude’, ‘The Rockford Files’, ‘All in the Family’, ‘Kojak’, ‘Route 66′ and ‘Quincy, M.E.’. Busy man was Mr. Frank.

Young Frank was the younger brother of veteran actor Joseph Campanella. A rather busy guy himself, Joseph has some 200 TV and film roles to his credit.

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