Alex Rocco Biography

Fast Facts

• Once dreamed of being "the youngest bookie ever" and flirted with a criminal lifestyle before finding success as an actor; flipped a coin to decide where to go to take up acting, and California won
• First on-screen role was as a crook in a 1967 episode of the Batman TV series
• Breakthrough role was as gangster Moe Green in 1972's The Godfather
• Studied acting with fellow Boston native Leonard Nimoy, who advised him to take speech lessons to rid himself of his Boston accent
• Upon getting a gig on the 2012 TV crime drama Magic City, said his role on the series as a mob-connected businessman struck him as having been "close to my own story
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