Nicholas Colasanto

...to the episode's theme song (though this is not always the case in repeat showings). Following Colasanto's death the show's cast and crew honored him by hanging a portrait of Geronimo on the show's set. The picture had previously hung in...

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...parody of Curious George. After watching a knife-fight between two monkeys, Moe comments "He ain't pretty no more!" This is Nicholas Colasanto's line in Raging Bull. The Coast Guard officer gets Homer's party going by sounding out the...

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...instead tells him, "Sorry, we're closed." Near the piano, Sam straightens the picture of Geronimo (hung on the set since Nicholas Colasanto's death). He proceeds to walk into the back room with the lights off - a bookend to the opening of...

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Nicholas Colasanto (January 19, 1924 - February 12, 1985) was an American actor and television director, known primarily for his role as Coach Ernie Pantusso on the sitcom Cheers. He also appeared in feature films which include Fat City '',...

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...Rhode Island John T. Ward - Mayor of Lincoln, Rhode Island Dennis G. Perron - Chief of Police Hubbardston, Massachusetts Nicholas Colasanto - Actor, Known for his roles in Cheers, Starsky & Hutch, and Chips. Thomas Ciaburri Jr. -...

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...a boxer who is alcoholic and way past his prime, is trying to make a comeback with the help of his manager and trainer Ruben (Nicholas Colasanto). He has a brief affair with a drunken barfly, Oma (Tyrrell), and moves in with her, working...

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...graphs, and any other original works), unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Fun NBC fact: Nicholas Colasanto, the guy who played the character Coach on "Cheers," was also a television director. He did episodes...

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6. "Woody" Boyd takes over for Ernie "Coach" Pantusso on Cheers: Coach was a lovable, endearing presence on Cheers, but when Nicholas Colasanto, the actor who played him, died in 1985, Woody Harrelson stepped in. Woody was clueless and...

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...Crane. Characters such as Diane Chambers and Coach would come and go (Shelley Long would leave to pursue a film career and sadly Nicholas Colasanto would pass away in 1985) but the heart of the series, Cheers itself, would live for 11...

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...villains. The great Joseph Cotten ("Citizen Kane") is also among the cast, as are character actors Jamie Farr ("M*A*S*H") and Nicholas Colasanto ("Cheers"). Bay Area residents will have fun trying to figure out the locations of the...

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