Richard Joseph Libertini was an American stage, film and television actor.
14 Facts About Richard Libertini
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Richard Libertini was known for playing character roles and his ability to speak in numerous accents.
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Richard Libertini's films include Catch-22, The In-Laws, Popeye, Sharky's Machine, All of Me, Fletch, Fletch Lives, Awakenings, Lethal Weapon 4, and Dolphin Tale, which was his final film role.
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Richard Libertini moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career during the 1960s.
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Richard Libertini was an original cast member of The Mad Show, a 1966 Off-Broadway musical-comedy produced by Mad magazine.
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Richard Libertini portrayed Nosh, an electronics expert who is a childhood best friend of Burt Reynolds's character, in Sharky's Machine.
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Richard Libertini played a traveling vaudevillian in Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, the greengrocer George W Geezil in Robert Altman's Popeye, a Hispanic priest in Best Friends, the servant Giuseppe in Unfaithfully Yours, spiritual advisor Prahka Lasa in All of Me, the bandit Dijon in Disney's animated feature film DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, and a rabbi in Lethal Weapon 4.
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On television, Richard Libertini was a series regular in the first season of Soap as the Godfather.
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Richard Libertini appeared as three different characters in episodes of Barney Miller.
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Richard Libertini appeared in Evaluation and Middle Age.
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Richard Libertini guest starred in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Accession" as a Bajoran named Akorem Laan, and in the Sonny with a Chance episode "Dakota's Revenge" as Izzy, an insane mechanic.
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Richard Libertini voiced Wally Llama on Animaniacs, and starred in three short-lived sitcoms: Family Man, in which he played a middle-aged comedy writer who married a much younger woman and became a father late in life; The Fanelli Boys, in which he played an Italian priest; and Pacific Station, in which he played a police detective.
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From October 2011 through January 2012, Richard Libertini appeared on Broadway as a rabbi in "Honeymoon Motel", the Woody Allen-penned segment of Relatively Speaking.
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Richard Libertini died at the age of 82 in Venice, California, on January 7,2016, from cancer.