This is one of those Twilight Zone moments for me. I was with some friends the other night (in a backyard garden, so safe), and Enter Laughing/Santoni came up. One of my friends had actually worked with him, in Brewster's Millions; said he was a very nice guy. This was easily the first time I'd thought of him in decades, and weird it was literally the day he died.
I actually knew of him BEFORE Enter Laughing. Back in 1965, he was a regular guest on the Merv Griffin Show, which I used to watch most nights during summer vacation. (I know, Merv Griffin, yuck -- but in those days, when he was based in NY, he had offbeat, little known regular guests like Richard Pryor, Fannie Flagg and Joanne Worley.) That Enter Laughing fizzled as a movie prevented his ever becoming a star, but he was a solid working actor for many years.
R.I.P. Reni Santoni
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