Jay Novello Overview:

Character actor, Jay Novello, was born Michael Romano on Aug 22, 1904 in Chicago, IL. Novello died at the age of 78 on Sep 2, 1982 in North Hollywood, CA .

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Dark, scurrying, usually mustachioed little American actor, just as likely to be a dapper small-time crook or the unkempt Arab in the market-place trying to sell you his wares. Played many nationalities in his time - occasionally even his own! Fairly busy in films until 1966 (although almost always in small roles), and then increasingly tied up in television to the end of his career. Died from cancer.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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Zacha: Meet my most valuable client, Johnny Tyronne. He is an American, which means nothing, but he is filthy rich, which means everything.


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Little Italian-American character actor with big talent, especially when it came to playing a variety of nervous, shady-like foreigners.

Taught to speak Italian before learning English; later spoke fluent German and Greek.

His immense comedic talents did not go by unnoticed, especially by Lucille Ball. She used Novello frequently on her classic TV shows "I Love Lucy" (1951) and "The Lucy Show" (1962). Especially memorable in a classic episode entitled "The Seance" in which he plays prissy, overwrought Mr. Merriwether who is trying to contact his dog that passed away, Tillie.

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