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James Coco
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Actor Born: March 21, 1930 in New York, NY Death: February 25, 1987 in New York, NY Biography:An actor from childhood, the heavy-set, prematurely bald James Coco won an Obie award for his 1959 performance in the off-Broadway The Moon in Yellow River, but his first widespread public attention was gained through his many TV commercial appearances in the early 1960s. He attained Broadway stardom in the offbeat plays of Terence McNally, the best of which was "Next", in which Coco portrayed a middle-aged man who through a bureaucratic blunder was ordered to report to his draft board. Playwright Neil Simon was so impressed by Coco that he wrote a stage vehicle for the actor, that dinner-theatre perennial "The Last of the Red Hot Lovers". Simon's association with Coco continued through several subsequent plays and into such films as "Murder By Death" (1975) and "The Cheap Detective" (1978). Though he'd made his film debut in a bit role in 1964's "Ensign Pulver", Coco didn't make an impact in films... Full Biography
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