Richard Libertini
| Richard Libertini | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Richard Joseph Libertini May 21, 1933 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | January 7, 2016 (aged 82) Venice, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Emerson College |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1968–2013 |
| Spouse(s) | Melinda Dillon (1963–1978) (divorced) |
| Children | one |
Richard Joseph Libertini (May 21, 1933 – January 7, 2016) was an American stage, film and television actor.
He was known for playing character roles and his ability to speak in numerous accents. Libertini was known for his roles in Catch-22 (1970), The In-Laws (1979), Popeye (1980), All of Me (1984), Fletch (1985), Fletch Lives (1989), Awakenings (1990), Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), and Dolphin Tale (2011).
Libertini was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He attended and graduated from Emerson College in Boston. During his early years, Libertini worked in New York City and in Chicago. He moved to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career during the 1960s.
He was an original cast member of The Mad Show, a 1966 Off-Broadway musical-comedy produced by MAD Magazine. His first film appearances were in The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968), Don't Drink the Water (1969) and Catch-22 (1970).
Two of his more memorable film roles came in the comedies Fletch (1985), in which he played Chevy Chase's character's doubting editor, a role he repeated in the 1989 sequel Fletch Lives, and The In-Laws (1979), in which he played General Garcia, an insane Latin-American dictator whose closest advisor was a cartoon face drawn on his own hand a la Senor Wences. He portrayed Nosh, an electronics expert who is the childhood best friend of Burt Reynolds's character, in Sharky's Machine (1981).
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