Joe E. Tata, best known for playing Nat Bussichio, the friendly owner of the Peach Pit restaurant, died on Wednesday 24.
Actor Joe E. Tata, best known for playing Nat Bussichio, the friendly owner of the Peach Pit restaurant in Stuck at the prom (Beverly Hills, 90210), died Wednesday (8/24) at the age of 85. In 2018 he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
Since last April, he has lived at the Hollywood artists’ retreat, the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. Colleague Ian Ziering, who played Steve Sanders in the series, was the one who announced the actor’s death.
“In recent months we have lost Jessica Klein, one of the most prolific writers and producers of ‘Drop Down’, Denise Douse, who played Ms. Teasley, and now I am very sad to say that Joe E. Tata is dead,” she wrote.
“Joey was really old fashioned, I remember seeing him in ‘The Confidential File’ with James Garner, years before we worked together on ‘The Bars at Prom’. He also played villains in the original Batman series. Happier people than that. I’ve ever worked, he was as generous with his wisdom as he was with his kindness. Even though he was a group, it often felt like we were the backdrop for the Joe And Tata show, “added Ziering.
Tata participated in 238 episodes of Stuck at the prombetween 1990 and 2000, and also reprized its role in the 2008 reboot, 90210, serves burgers and offers a hangout spot for teens from both series. In the original storyline, she also suffered a near-fatal heart attack and exchanged marriage vows with Joan Diamond (Julie Parrish) while she was in the hospital and was about to give birth to their son, Frankie.
The artist began his career in 1960, with participation in an episode of “Peter Gunn” and has appeared in numerous classic series, living as an alien in Fifth Dimension (in 1964) to a police inspector in Charmed (in 2001). in the aforementioned Confidential fileappeared in eight episodes and always as a different character, between 1974 and 1978. And he was, in fact, the henchman of three different villains (Riddler, Penguin and King Tut) of the classic series of Batmanbetween 1966 and 1968, in addition to having embodied a variety of robots and aliens in Lost in space (in 1967).
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