The performing neighborhood has misplaced one in all its personal.

John Aprea, who performed a youthful model of Salvatore Tessio within the 1974 movie The Godfather Part II, has died. He was 83.

His supervisor Will Levine stated the actor handed away Aug. 5 of pure causes in Los Angeles, the Hollywood Reporter stated Aug. 18.

Aprea was born in New Jersey in 1941 to Italian immigrants. The household lived in Italy for a number of years when he was a baby earlier than transferring again to the United States. Aprea pursued an performing profession within the ’60s in New York and later moved to Los Angeles, the place he made his onscreen debut within the 1968 Steve McQueen movie Bullitt.

He had small elements primarily on TV earlier than touchdown his breakout function in The Godfather Part II.

Throughout his profession, he additionally starred in films equivalent to The Manchurian Candidate and The Game and quite a few TV exhibits, together with the hit household sitcom Full House, during which he performed the daddy of John Stamos‘ character Jesse Katsopolis, or Uncle Jesse. Aprea reprised the half on the Netflix sequel sequence Fuller House in 2017.