Nicholas Colasanto

ACTOR, DIRECTOR, SOUNDTRACK

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Nicholas Colasanto, the actor and television director who achieved his greatest success as "Coach" on the TV series Cheers (1982) at the end of his career, was born January 19, 1924 in Providence, Rhode Island, one of seven children. He attended Providence's Central High School but did not graduate due to World War II, as he joined the Navy. After being discharged at the end of the war, Colasanto returned to Little Rhody and finished his high school education, then went on to Bryant College, earning money for tuition and board by working construction jobs. He worked as an accountant for an oil company after graduating from Bryant in 1949.At the age of 28, he saw Henry Fonda perform on Broadway and was infected by the acting bug. He joined a theater company in Phoenix, Arizona before moving back to New York, where he performed in off-Broadway productions and appeared in TV commercials. He relocated to Hollywood in 1965 and began to appear on TV, were he also made his mark as a TV director. Eventually, he directed over 100 episodes of series TV in the 1960s and 70s, including episodes of Bonanza (1959), Columbo (1971), Die knallharten Fünf (1975) and Starsky und Hutch (1975). His two most memorable film roles were the the boxing manager in John Huston's Fat City (1972) and the mob boss in Martin Scorsese's Wie ein wilder Stier (1980).Colasanto was primarily a dramatic actor but the producers of the TV comedy Cheers (1982) cast him as Ernie "Coach" Pantusso, the absent-minded and dumb but lovable bartender. The role made him famous and he earned an Emmy nomination as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series each of the three years that he appeared on the show.Sadly, at the height of his fame, he died from a heart ailment at his home on February 12th, 1985. Much beloved by the cast, the picture of the Apache warrior Geronimo that Colasanto had kept in his dressing room as a good luck charm was hung on the wall of the primary set of Cheers (1982). The picture of was not only a tribute to "Nicky", as he was known to his friends and co-workers, but was a reminder that "Coach" was still around. On the final episode of Cheers (1982), eight years after his death, Nicky Colasanto was acknowledged when series star Ted Danson, in the final scene, straightens the Geronimo picture before walking off stage for the last time. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Jon C. Hopwood

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Releases by Year

Nicholas Colasanto on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1976 to 1977. See the full graphs of the number of Nicholas Colasanto movies released per year from 1976 till 1977.

Top Genres

Nicholas Colasanto works mostly in Comedy Genre followed by Crime Genre flixes. 29% of Nicholas Colasanto movies are Comedy Genre movies. See Top Genres that Nicholas Colasanto worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Nicholas Colasanto has worked on is 6.1.

6.1 / 10

Nicholas Colasanto's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Action,Comedy,Drama
Mad Bull (1977)

An embittered professional wrestler, convinced that his life has no meaning outside the ring, meets a beautiful woman. Unlike most of the women he has known, she seems to be interested in ...

5.9/10100 min

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