Abe Vigoda, the beloved actor known for playing Det. Fish on Barney Miller and mobster Sal Tessio in The Godfather, and for weathering years of mistaken reports about his death, died in his sleep in ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Character Abe Vigoda, whose leathery, sunken-eyed face made him ideal for playing the over-the-hill detective Phil Fish in the 1970s TV series “Barney Miller” and the doomed Mafia ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP)-- Character actor Abe Vigoda, whose leathery, sunken-eyed face made him ideal for playing the over-the-hill detective Phil Fish in the 1970s TV series "Barney Miller" and the ...

Abe Vigoda, who played Det. Phil Fish on Barney Miller, has died at age 94. Fish is one of the great sitcom characters, a perennially weary cop with a jaundiced view of life, and Vigoda played him to ...

Fish is attracted to the mother of a young mugger; a man is a bit premature to obtain the unclaimed windfall he found on the street. Fish considers an operation; a burglar known as ""The Mole"" leads ...