George DiCenzo

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George DiCenzo

George Ralph DiCenzo (born April 21, 1940 in New Haven , Connecticut , † August 9, 2010 in Washington Crossing , Newtown , Pennsylvania ) was an American actor .

Life

Di Cenzo attended Union College in New York State . He graduated from Yale University's School of Drama with acting training . Over the course of his 30-year acting career, DiCenzo has had numerous roles in feature films , television films, and television series .

DiCenzo started out as a movie actor in the early 1970s with small roles in horror films , action films, and crime novels . He had pithy character roles in the films Close Encounters of the Third Kind , Back to the Future and Like Last Night . He had other cinema roles in the thriller Seduce me! starred alongside Burt Reynolds and Saffron Burrows , and in 2001 in the British-Italian comedy film Hotel by Mike Figgis . He was best known for his role as prosecutor and author Vincent Bugliosi in Helter Skelter , a television film about the criminal Charles Manson . In 2004, he played the baseball -Funktionär A. Bartlett Giamatti in Hustle , a television film about the life of the disgraced baseball player Pete Rose .

Since the 1970s, DiCenzo played numerous episode roles and guest roles in American television series, including The Boss , Detective Rockford - a call is enough , Smoking Guns , Use in Manhattan , The streets of San Francisco , The Waltons , Magnum , Murder is her hobby , NYPD Blue, and Law & Order .

Occasionally DiCenzo also worked as a stage actor. In 1972 he appeared at the Martinique Theater in New York City in the role of Frank Eaton in the play Whitsuntide . In the 1991/1992 season he appeared with Nathan Lane on Broadway in the play On Borrowed Time by Paul Osborn , directed by George C. Scott . He also worked as a narrator for cartoons , audio books and commercials .

DiCenzo also worked as an acting teacher and acting coach. He founded his own acting studio The Acting Studio in Philadelphia , where he worked from 1997 until his death. He also worked as an acting teacher at The Acting Studio in New York City.

DiCenzo was married. He died of the aftermath of an accident that he suffered a few years ago.

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SURNAME DiCenzo, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES DiCenzo, George Ralph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH New Haven , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 2010
Place of death Washington Crossing , Newtown , Pennsylvania