Veteran actor Joe Marinelli has died on the age of 68, his household and agent have confirmed.
The Santa Barbara actor – who not too long ago starred in hit Apple TV present The Morning Present – died of abdomen most cancers on Sunday, June 22.
He’s greatest recognized for taking part in Bunny Tagliatti in 171 episodes of NBC cleaning soap Santa Barbara; financial institution robber Pauly Hardman on the CBS daytime drama Guiding Gentle in 1993; and as mobster Joseph Sorel in Basic Hospital.
Marinelli’s agent Julie Smith advised CNN he was residing with abdomen and throat most cancers for a number of years earlier than his loss of life, and the soapstar’s spouse Jean Marinelli confirmed the information to The Hollywood Reporter.
In The Morning Present, Marinelli performed TV present director Donny Spagnoli, alongside Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, who portrayed presenters on the fictional daytime present.
The sequence additionally stars Steve Carell, Juliana Margulies, John Ham, and Billy Crudup.
‘We misplaced an excellent one,’ Mark Duplass, who performs TMS govt producer Chip Black on the present, stated on X.
‘Joe Marinelli lived in uncommon air. Beneficiant performer, lovely human, wide-eyed positivist.
‘I received to know him capturing The Morning Present. We taught lessons collectively. We talked about nothing and all the pieces in between takes.
‘We reduce proper to the necessary stuff on Day 1 of assembly. I’ll miss him dearly. And I’ll attempt to dwell my life a bit extra like he lived his. All of us ought to.’
Outdoors of TV, Marinelli additionally starred in movies together with Sideways and One Final Experience in 2004.
Connecticut-born Marinelli, who studied performing at London’s The Royal Academy of Dramatic Artwork, made temporary visitor appearances in a lot of TV reveals, together with The West Wing, Determined Housewives, Deadly Weapon, and NYPD Blue.
After returning to the US following drama faculty, Marinelli labored as a carpenter till touchdown roles in Cagney & Lacey and Paper Dolls, and L.A. Legislation, which launched him to Santa Barbara producer Jill Farren Phelps.
Hollywood director Alexander Payne, who was behind Sideways in 2004, paid tribute to Marinelli.
‘The good Joe Marinelli acted in my very first film at movie faculty 40 years in the past and once more in Sideways,’ Payne stated of the late actor. ‘Apart from being a unprecedented artist, he was a uniquely magnificent human being with a coronary heart as massive because the ocean.’
He’s survived by spouse Jean Marinelli, who he married in 1991, and two kids Vincent and David.
His son David’s childhood good friend – musician and Billie Eilish’s brother – Finneas, advised The Hollywood Reporter that when he was 14, he was ‘a beneficiary of the identical issues anybody fortunate sufficient to know Joe was; numerous nice tales accompanied by considerate questions, one million small classes and dozens of huge ones…
‘Even on the occasions in my very own life when I didn’t absolutely perceive myself, Joe at all times appeared to.’
Marinelli’s Santa Barbara co-star Leigh McCloskey wrote a heartfelt tribute on Fb.
‘A sweeter man or a dearer good friend you may not discover than Joe Marinelli. I knew Joe was sick and so admired his indefatigable spirit all through what seemed like a really troublesome, if not not possible, ordeal,’ she stated.
‘Joe was a champion. He was an excellent performing companion, instructor, philosophical good friend, passionate believer in folks, and a storyteller extraordinaire that with laughter and depth revealed the human spirit so fantastically and in so many various methods.
‘He has a phenomenal, extremely gifted household that displays his love of music and artwork and together with his wonderful spouse Jean, collectively they at all times radiated beneficiant and noble hearts.’
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