Actor Al Mancini died 12 November 2007. Born Alfred Benito Mancini in Steubenville, Ohio, on 13 November 1932, he may be best known for playing Tassos Bravos in The Dirty Dozen (1967), one of two soldiers who die defending a crossroads from a German platoon in the climactic battle scene.
He had little professional success in the US as an actor, so he moved to London, and won a role on the popular British television news comedy That Was the Week That Was. Following its abrupt cancellation in 1963, he stayed in England, taking character roles in television series. He returned to the US in the mid-1970s, getting many character roles on television and in the movies.
His genre appearances include a role in the films Babe: Pig in the City (1998), and television appearances in: Joan of Arcadia (2005), Monsters (1990), Beauty and the Beast (1987), two episodes of UFO (1970, 1971), and The Prisoner (1967).
Mancini also performed and taught drama at the Beverly Hills Playhouse and won the Los Angeles Ovation Award for his performance in The Time of Your Life in 2002.