The acting community has misplaced thought to be one of its accumulate.

John Aprea, who conducted a younger version of Salvatore Tessio within the 1974 film The Godfather Share II, has died. He became once 83.

His manager Will Levine acknowledged the actor passed away Aug. 5 of natural causes in Los Angeles, the Hollywood Reporter acknowledged Aug. 18.

Aprea became once born in New Jersey in 1941 to Italian immigrants. The family lived in Italy for so a lot of years when he became once a baby sooner than shifting support to the us. Aprea pursued an acting profession within the '60s in New York and later moved to Los Angeles, where he made his onscreen debut within the 1968 Steve McQueen film Bullitt.

He had dinky parts totally on TV sooner than landing his breakout characteristic in The Godfather Share II.

All the blueprint in which through his profession, he also starred in films similar to The Manchurian Candidate and The Sport and a form of TV presentations, including the hit family sitcom Beefy Dwelling, in which he conducted the father of John Stamos' character Jesse Katsopolis, or Uncle Jesse. Aprea reprised the fragment on the Netflix sequel sequence Fuller Dwelling in 2017.

Furthermore within the '80s, the actor starred on the sequence Matt Houston and likewise had habitual roles on primetime soaps Falcon Crest and Knots Touchdown within the '80s and likewise starred on the sunlight hours soaps One other World and Days of Our Lives. To boot, he had guest roles on presentations similar to Melrose Attach, Saved the Bell: The New Class, Renegade, Silk Stalkings and The Sopranos.

Currently, Aprea regarded in films similar to Stevie D and starred on the crime drama sequence The Bay.

“It became once one of these essential honor to accept as true with the privilege of working with an icon esteem John on The Bay,” uncover creator Gregori J. Martin acknowledged in a assertion. “I actually accept as true with persistently been a fan of his work and he became once a appropriate gentleman and absolute pro who brought some sexy moments to the characteristic of Jack in these later seasons. We are able to all dart over him dearly.”

Aprea is survived by his wife of 25 years, Betsy, his daughter Nicole from his previous marriage to Ninon Aprea, and stepchildren Marika and Valentino.