Happy Days’ and The Odd Couple’s (movie) Al Molinaro has died at age 96.
One of those absolutely everywhere, everyman players that keep the industry going.
I hope this doesn’t mean N. Pat Morita is next…
I suppose you mean The Odd Couple’s (TV) Al Molinaro. I loved him as Murray the Cop.
Sadly, Matsuo “Arnold” Takahashi AKA Pat Morita died in 2005.
You’re right, I got them confused.
Oops. Not enough coffee yet. (See other threads.) Next you’re gonna tell me Vic Tayback is dead…
You have him confused with Abe Vigoda.
RIP, Al. 
One funny scene in The Odd Couple is when there’s a knock at the door. Oscar opens the small window in the door and all he sees is a giant schnozz. “Hi, Murray.”
FUNNY SCENE CONTEST!!
Felix is on a TV show, for some reason, and Murray is sitting on Oscar and Felix’s sofa eating a sandwich and drinking something out of a can. Felix finishes whatever he’s doing on TV and while the studio audience is applauding, looks right into the camera and shouts, Murray use a coaster! Murray immediately grabs his can of drink and puts it on a coaster, then mutters He can’t see me! and moves the can off the coaster. Then moves it right back on cause, you never know.
Thanks for the laffs, Mr. Molinaro.
He had a good run. I found it interesting that he made himself wealthy in real estate then took up acting later.
Spoiler because even though it’s meant in good fun, someone sensitive and humorless might not wish to read it.
Al from Happy Days is now six feet under. His nose is 5 feet under
It’s dumb, but it’s what came to mind and I had to say it. So long big Al.
Interesting that he was born in Kenosha, not far from where “Happy Days” was set.
Brian
There was a Happy Days episode in which there was a mysterious informant, I think for a story Ron Howard’s character was writing for the school paper. They set up a meeting where he will be seen in shadow to protect his identity. Of course, it’s Al in profile, leaving no doubt about who it is.
Al was a good sport. 
It’s interesting that his last listed role on IMDb is for that Weezer video. 21 years ago. Although for some strange reason I associate it with 95.
Murray’s here! Deal him in, Felix, Oscar, and Speed. RIP, Al.
^ Murray, get in here, you’re breathing up all the air out there!
Oscar: Your name is Homer?
Speed: What? You think when I was born my parents named me SPEED?
TBG, I loved your joke. It WAS a big nose, but he was a big man–in more ways than one.
I think even his character was from Kenosha too. I seem to recall him saying the name a couple of times.
Yup, yup, yup. My birthplace as well but we left when I was a baby. My mother told me that the Molinaro family was pretty well known in Kenosha.
Yeah, that video was really popular (back when MTV played such things). I remember one of the VJs saying it used Forrest Gump-like CG to insert Weezer into the old footage from the show, but even back then it was obvious to me they just used clever editing and ‘back-of-the-head’ lookalikes. Molinaro was the only original actor who actually appears in any of the new footage with the band. The opening segment with the newscaster outside ‘Arnold’s’ was from the famous two-parter where Fonzie jumped, no, not the shark, but a record number of barrels on his motorcycle. It was still Arnold’s then, Pat Morita was still on the show.
“Please, try the fish…”