1. Joe Santos's mother Rose, sold olive oil and eventually became a nightclub owner and singer in New York City and Havana.
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Joe Santos later married Puerto Rican-born Daniel Santos, and Joe took his name.
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Joe Santos was a football player at Fordham University, and even turned semi-pro, before finding a new avenue in acting.
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Joe Santos struggled in show business, and worked blue-collar jobs until his friend Al Pacino helped him get a role in the 1971 movie The Panic in Needle Park.
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From 1974 to 1980, Joe Santos played LAPD Sergeant Dennis Becker, the friend of the easy-going private investigator Jim Rockford in The Rockford Files.
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Joe Santos reprised the Dennis Becker role in eight The Rockford Files television movies.
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Joe Santos appeared in various television movies during the 1970s and 1980s, including Nightside, The Blue Knight, The Girl on the Late, Late Show, A Matter of Wife.
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Joe Santos's character was often a police detective or lieutenant.
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Joe Santos portrayed Marty Sinatra, Frank's father, in the four-part 1992 television miniseries Sinatra.
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In 1980, Joe Santos played Norman Davis in the short-lived NBC comedy Me and Maxx.
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Joe Santos appeared on The Sopranos as Angelo Garepe in seven 2004 episodes.
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In 1958, Joe Santos met and married Maria Montero while he was in Cuba.
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Joe Santos died on March 18,2016, two days after suffering a heart attack at the age of 84.