Reni Santoni April 21 1939 August 1 2020 was an American film television and voice actor Santoni was born in New York City of French and Spanish descent He began his career in offBroadway theatre His first significant film role was an uncredited appearance in the 1964 film The Pawnbroker starring Rod Steiger in which he played a junkie trying to sell a radio to the title character using antiSemitic slurs that have absolutely no effect Santonis first leading role was as the young actor in Carl Reiners Enter Laughing His other wellknown film roles include Inspector Chico González in the 1971 classic Dirty Harry as Ramon Herrera in the 1983 hit drama Bad Boys and as detective Tony Gonzales in 1986 action film Cobra Around that time he also made guest appearances on television shows such as Barnaby Jones Lou Grant Hawaii FiveO Hardcastle and McCormick Hill Street Blues and Midnight Caller In 1973 he was a junior partner on Owen Marshall Counselor at Law Santoni and Owen Marshall costar Lee Majors were born the same week in April 1939 Santoni continued to work in film and television through to the 21st century Some of his more memorable characterizations include Poppie the unhygienic restaurateur on TVs Seinfeld and Captain Carlos Rodríguez in Carl Reiners comedy film Dead Men Dont Wear Plaid Description above from the Wikipedia article Reni Santoni licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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