Joe and Tata, owner of The Peach Pit in Beverly Hills, 90210, dies at 85

Joe and Tata, who played Peach Pit restaurant owner Nat Busicchio in 10 seasons of the original Beverly Hills, 90210, died. He was 85 years old.

Tata died Wednesday night, his daughter, Kelly Catherine Tata, said on a GoFundMe page. He previously wrote that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2018 and transferred to a film and television retreat and hospital in April. A spokeswoman for the Woodland Hills facility confirmed that he died there.

Of note, Tata played three supervillains: Frank Gorshin’s Riddler, Burgess’ Meredith Penguin, and Victor Buono’s King Tut, in the 1966-68 ABC series. bat Man.

He also appeared on the 1960s ABC science fiction show produced by Irwin Allen. time Tunnel (once as Napoleon) and A trip to the bottom of the sea and CBS’ Lost in space – and as guarantor Solly Marshall (and several other characters) on NBC The Rockford files In the 70’s

He played Brooklyn Dodgers shortstop Pee Wee Reese in a 1974 CBS telefilm. it’s good to be alive (a biopic about teammate and catcher Roy Campanella) and New York Yankees southpaw Gomez in the 1978 NBC TV movie A Love Story: The Story of Eleanor and Lou Gehrig.

During its run of 238 episodes 90210 During the 1990s and 2000s, Tata’s Nat’s served up a delicious mega hamburger and was a great hangout for schoolchildren. He also suffered a near-fatal heart attack; restaurant partnership with Dylan (Luke Perry); Pete turned the space next door into a nightclub; and exchanged marriage vows at one point with Joan Diamond (Julie Parrish) while she was in the hospital giving birth to their son, Frank.

Tata returned as the restaurant’s owner for the series’ reboot in 2008, but did little work after that.

on your instagram 90210 Co-star Ian Ziering called Tata “one of the happiest people I’ve ever worked with, who was as generous in his wisdom as he was in his kindness. However, the peach pit was a 90210 The stage often feels like the backdrop to a Joe E. Tata concert.

Tata’s vaudevillian son was born on September 13, 1936. He served in the army and made his screen debut in a 1960 episode. peter gunn.

He continued to appear on other shows such as outer limits, Gomer Pyle: USMC, No time for sergeants., ben casey, Hogan’s Heroes, mannix, FBI, The streets of San Francisco, a detective story, a team s Hill Street sadness before landing 90210.

In a 2011 interview, he said he loved working. bat Man And sometimes I would go to the Fox lot where the show was being filmed and just walk around. It was like I was part of the company,” she recalls.

“One day I met Stanley Ralph Ross, one of the writers bat Man. I just moved on to another episode. [‘Hizzonner the Penguin’/’Dizzoner the Penguin’] Berges with Meredith. I said, “Stanley, do me a favor. If you ever write something that I go to work on, maybe you’ll sing it for me? I mean, I’m humming all the time, but I want the audience to really see that I’m humming.’ Stanley laughed and said, “Get out of here!”

“When I got the script for Penguin Story, I found myself playing, surprise, surprise, GOON #1. I put on a black derby, a black turtleneck, black pants, black shoes and a black umbrella. However, on my chest was written GOON in huge white letters, [short for] Grand Order of Western Nights. It was the club that would destroy Batman.”