Al Molinaro

TV Actor

Al Molinaro was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States on June 24th, 1919 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 96, Al Molinaro biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Albert Francis Molinaro
Date of Birth
June 24, 1919
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States
Death Date
Oct 30, 2015 (age 96)
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
Networth
$10 Million
Profession
Actor, Film Actor, Television Actor
Al Molinaro Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 96 years old, Al Molinaro has this physical status:

Height
Not Available
Weight
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Hair Color
Black
Eye Color
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Build
Large
Measurements
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Al Molinaro Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Roman Catholic
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Not Available
Al Molinaro Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Jacquelin Martin, ​ ​(m. 1948; div. 1980)​, Betty Farrell ​(m. 1981)​
Children
1
Dating / Affair
Not Available
Parents
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Al Molinaro Life

Albert Francis "Al" Molinaro (born Umberto Francesco Molinaro, June 24, 1919 – October 30, 2015) was an American actor.

He was known as Al Delvecchio on Happy Days and Officer Murray Greshler on The Odd Couple, as Al Delvecchio.

He has appeared in several television shows, including On-Cor frozen dinners.

Early life

Umberto Francesco Molinaro was born and raised in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the second-youngest of ten children of Raffaele and Teresa Molinaro, who immigrated from Marano Principato in the province of Cosenza, Italy.

Molinaro's father, a well-known tavern/restaurant/hotel operator, was a founder of the Kenosha Italian community, who generously financed hundreds of Italians to immigrate to the United States. Joseph Molinaro was Kenosha County's longest-serving district attorney and retired as a municipal judge, and his brother George spent 30 years in the Wisconsin State Assembly, including one session as Speaker.

Al's classmates discovered a passion for public speaking, but he failed at high school, and stayed on an extra year to graduate. In 1940, he left home and boarded a bus to seek fame and fortune as an actor in Los Angeles. Molinaro married Jacquelin Martin, with whom he had a son, Michael. The couple divorced.

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Al Molinaro Career

From real estate to acting career

Molinaro migrated to California, where he later found enough funds to start his own collection company. He eventually sold his company and became interested in southern California real estate speculation. When one of his properties was bought by a conglomerate that used the property to create a shopping mall that would give him a windfall to start a career in acting, his investments paid off. As a result, he was financially stable when he decided to pursue his long-awaited dream of being an actor.

Molinaro studied acting and appeared on television sitcoms including Bewitched, Get Smart, Green Acres, and That Girl in the 1960s and 1970s. Penny Marshall was one of the other students in an improvisation class. Marshall introduced her brother, producer Garry Marshall, to Molinaro, who offered him the role of police officer Murray Greshler on the television sitcom The Odd Couple in 1970.

During this period, he worked in a hotel in midtown New York City. "I went to New York City for the first time," his son Michael explained, "because he had moved there to do a number of businesses." On 'The Odd Couple,' he did not simply walk the beat but not necessarily played a cop. "He used to stroll the streets of New York City and adored it." The show aired for five years before 1975.

Molinaro was recruited by Garry Marshall to replace Pat Morita on another sitcom he created, Happy Days. "Yeah-yeah-yeah," Molinaro's character was revealed to be the owner of Arnold's yeah-yeah shop, Al Delvecchio, who was known for the sighing catch. In Milwaukee, Al's home state of Wisconsin, Happy Days were held. It lasted for eleven seasons, from 1974 to 1984. Molinaro suggested that Robin Williams be cast, but it gave the comedy legend his big screen debut and made him a main actor.

Molinaro remarried in 1981, to Betty Farrell. When Garry Marshall was chosen by Garry Marshall to play Al Delvecchio in the short-lived Happy Days spin-off Joanie Loves Chachi, he left Happy Days in 1982.

Molinaro appeared in The Ugly Family (1982) as the patriarch of an unattractive family whose pronoununciations of his surname are always correcting mispronunciations of his surname as "ugly."

Molinaro and fellow Happy Days cast member Anson Williams formed Big Al's in 1987. The company was defunct when it was defunct. In 1990, he admitted that he did not want to be in films directed by Garry Marshall.

Molinaro said at the time,

Molinaro appeared on CBS sitcom The Family Man from 1990 to 1990. Miller-Boyett Productions, which also produced Happy Days, produced the program.

Molinaro was proud of his participation on Happy Days and defended its anachronistic appearance as authentic and a genuine display that did not sentimentallyize the past. Its success was due to the series's syndication of the film into a mass-market product in several nations. Molinaro appeared on the Don and Mike Show, a nationally syndicated radio show that aired from 1985 to 2008.

In Weezer's 1994 music video of the song "Buddy Holly," which was set in Arnold's diner, Molinaro reprised his role as Al Delvecchio from Happy Days. "Okay kids, Arnold's is proud to lead Kenosha, Wisconsin's own Weezer," he introduced the band.

His somewhat laid-back laconic sideways glance at the humour led him to a remark, according to him.

He appeared in the ABC's Happy Days Reunion Special in 1992.

In the early 1990s, he stopped acting in television and films, but TV commercials remained in television commercials until the early 2000s. From 1987 to 2003, he appeared in 42 commercials for On-Cor frozen foods. He also appeared in television ads for Cortaid hydrocortisone cream and Mr. Big paper products.

"I spent 20 years here before I got anything going...You've got to be lucky and in the right place at the right time," Molinaro said in reflecting on his acting career in 2004.

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