# Abe Vigoda, RIP
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abe-vigoda-rip/744288
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 26, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abe-vigoda-rip/744288 "2016-01-26T19:40:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abe-vigoda-rip/744288/1 "2016-01-26T19:40:49Z")
He’s been rumored dead for 30 years, but now it’s official.
So long Fish and Tessio.
[http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/abe-vigoda-sunken-eyed-character-actor-dead-94-36528884](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/abe-vigoda-sunken-eyed-character-actor-dead-94-36528884)
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abe-vigoda-rip/744288/2 "2016-01-26T19:42:56Z")
Damn. ☹
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### Author:  [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abe-vigoda-rip/744288/3 "2016-01-26T19:48:54Z")
Aww. I never saw him in a single episode of the shows that originally made him famous; like many people my age (I expect) Abe Vigoda was the guy Conan O’Brien would regularly trot out for some punchline or other on his old Late Show. [Example](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE9vw2l4Zpg). RIP.
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### Author:  [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abe-vigoda-rip/744288/4 "2016-01-26T19:58:32Z")
[http://www.abevigoda.com/](http://www.abevigoda.com/)
> **[Is Abe Vigoda Dead?](http://isabevigodadead.com/)**
>
> Is Abe Vigoda dead?
It’s finally happened. RIP, Fish.
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### Author:  [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abe-vigoda-rip/744288/5 "2016-01-26T19:59:11Z")
[http://www.abevigoda.com/](http://www.abevigoda.com/)
How long was that page up without an update? Oh well, Fish sleeps with the fishes now. He had a good run.
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### Author:  [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abe-vigoda-rip/744288/6 "2016-01-26T19:59:53Z")
Underused IMHO. He worked great in everything I ever saw him in.
But 94 is a great run, unlike some of other recent losses. RIP.
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### Author:  [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abe-vigoda-rip/744288/7 "2016-01-26T20:07:55Z")
Just doing the math, he must’ve been around 50 while filming _The Godfather._
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### Author:  [@Cardboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardboard)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abe-vigoda-rip/744288/8 "2016-01-26T20:15:51Z")
I remember him from his greatest role, as a cook in **Good Burger**.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abe-vigoda-rip/744288/9 "2016-01-26T20:19:41Z")
Damn. I was hoping he’d make it to a hundred.
I can’t think of Abe Vigoda without thinking of [this song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYvt4I52wgQ)
♬ _I was stuck in a pagoda
With Tritia Toyota
We were watching **Abe Vigoda**
And then everything will be fine…_ ♬
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abe-vigoda-rip/744288/10 "2016-01-26T20:20:06Z")
This is the month of Death. Death to all. Betty White, you have 5 days left.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abe-vigoda-rip/744288/11 "2016-01-26T20:31:38Z")
DEATH: “It’s nothing personal. Just business.”
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abe-vigoda-rip/744288/12 "2016-01-26T20:33:13Z")
> [@CarnalK](#):
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> [http://www.abevigoda.com/](http://www.abevigoda.com/)
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> How long was that page up without an update? Oh well, Fish sleeps with the fishes now. He had a good run.
Domain registered in 2001, and I guess no reason to update until today. I like that that they had a Bauhaus parody “Abe Vigoda’s Dead” ready to go 🙂
“The blue-haired widows,
shambled past his room…”
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abe-vigoda-rip/744288/13 "2016-01-26T20:35:02Z")
Man. He was 53 - 60 during Barney Miller.
RIP Fish.
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### Author:  [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abe-vigoda-rip/744288/14 "2016-01-26T20:57:01Z")
Can you get me off the hook, Tom? For old times’ sake?
☹
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### Author:  [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abe-vigoda-rip/744288/15 "2016-01-26T21:03:49Z")
> [@Bayard](#):
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> Can you get me off the hook, Tom? For old times’ sake?
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> ☹
Can’t do it Sally… 🆒
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abe-vigoda-rip/744288/16 "2016-01-26T21:24:09Z")
If they’d sent Fish to arrest Tessio and only one came back alive, which one do you think it would have been?
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abe-vigoda-rip/744288/17 "2016-01-26T21:24:44Z")
“Man who was often mistakenly believed to be dead, is now dead”
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### Author:  [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abe-vigoda-rip/744288/18 "2016-01-26T22:22:43Z")
> [@Sampiro](#):
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> If they’d sent Fish to arrest Tessio and only one came back alive, which one do you think it would have been?
Hard to say, they were both so easy to underestimate. But I’m gonna say Tessio, Tessio was always the smart one.
Thanks Abe.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abe-vigoda-rip/744288/19 "2016-01-26T23:35:24Z")
> [@outlierrn](#):
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> Hard to say, they were both so easy to underestimate. But I’m gonna say Tessio, Tessio was always the smart one.
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> Thanks Abe.
Unless Fish had eaten some of Wojo’s brownies beforehand. Then all the smarts in the world wouldn’t help Tessio.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abe-vigoda-rip/744288/20 "2016-01-26T23:41:28Z")
Tragic. Way too young.
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