Actor Reni Santoni Dead at Age 81: 'Another Great One Is Gone' By Amanda Thomason
Published August 4, 2020 at 2:13pm
Reni Santoni, born in New York on April 21, 1939, died Saturday after dealing with a number of health issues for years. He was 81.
Santoni originally found his feet in the sports world, playing baseball and setting his sights on sports writing, according to his IMDb bio.
Of French and Spanish descent, he started writing comedy and playing small parts on television in the 1960s.
When he got into acting, he mainly held supporting roles, with some of his best-known performances being sloppy Poppie, a restaurant owner on Seinfeld, and Detective Chico Gonzalez, the partner of Clint Eastwoods Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry.
He would be active in film and television until 2012.
Santoni also did voice acting and wrote Raisin Hell in the Son, an off-Broadway play that premiered in 1962.
Tracy Newman, a friend of Santonis, told News that Santoni died of natural causes after years of health issues. He was in hospice care in Los Angeles at the time of his death.
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"Why do they call you Dirty Harry?"