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Known for
Cocktail
5.9
Eddie
1988
The Rockford Files
8.2
TV Series
Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford
1974 • 1 ep
Bloodhounds of Broadway
5.3
Doc Bodeeker
1989
Kojak
7.1
TV Series
Henshaw
1974 • 1 ep
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25
Deadly Games
6.4
TV Series
Red
1995
1 episode
Last of the Dogmen
6.9
Old Timer
1995
Bushwhacked
5.6
Proprietor
1995
Burke's Law
6.5
TV Series
Pops
1995
1 episode
Something Wilder
6.9
TV Series
Old Man
1994
1 episode
Another Midnight Run
4.8
TV Movie
Old Man
1994
Broken Promises: Taking Emily Back
6.3
TV Movie
Uncle Al
1993
Mad About You
6.8
TV Series
Scat King
1993
1 episode
Seinfeld
8.9
TV Series
Ben Cantwell
1993
1 episode
Family Album, U.S.A
8.8
TV Series
Malcolm Stewart
1991
Bloodhounds of Broadway
5.3
Doc Bodeeker
1989
Lonesome Dove
8.7
TV Mini Series
Old Sam
1989
1 episode
Matlock
7.1
TV Series
Fred
1988
1 episode
Cocktail
5.9
Eddie
1988
Cold River
5.6
Pete the Guide
1982
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Born
November 26
,
1911
Carmichaels, Pennsylvania, USA
Died
January 20
,
2004
Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, USA
(undisclosed)
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Jane Wakefield
January 21, 1984 - 1993 (divorced)
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His first wife and child (James Patrick Donley) were killed on November 7, 1945 when she apparently threw the boy out the 12th floor window at the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh. She then proceeded to jump, falling to her death.
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