Stage Name: Alex Rocco
Birth Name: Alessandro Federico Petricone Jr.
| Date of Birth | 29 February 1936, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Date of Death | 18 July 2015, Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA (cancer) |
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IMDB Trivia on Alex Rocco (14)
Wife Sandie E. Rocco was a former professional square dancer and night club performer who later became a screenwriter. She died at age 59 after a four-year battle with cancer on June 12, 2002.
Three children: director Marc Rocco; Jennifer Rocco, an attorney; Lucien Rocco, a poet; and, his grandson, Anthony Dominic Alessandro, son of Jennifer Rocco.
His "Do you know who I am" line in The Godfather (1972) is often used by Howie Carrwhen the subject is the "Beautiful People" getting in trouble.
Is a member of the Bahá'í faith.
His girlfriend was hit on by Charlestown mobster Georgie McLaughlin in 1961, setting off the Boston Irish gang war of the early 1960s. Rocco himself was picked up as a suspect in the murder of Bernie McLaughlin, but never charged.
Was once a member of The Winter Hill Gang
Starred in the February 3, 2008, Super Bowl ad for Audi that parodied the famous "horse head" scene in The Godfather (1972).
Father-in-law of Lisa Rocco.
Second husband of Shannon Wilcox.
Caesars Palace, in Las Vegas, payed tribute to Alex Rocco Saturday night by turning off the nostalgic front fountains in front of the hotel for one minute to honor their friend BoBo.
At his marriage to Sandie Garrett in 1966, he adopted her son, Marc, who became known as Marc Rocco.
