Joe Santos

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AKA: Joseph Minieri
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 06/09/1931
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA

biography

A street-edged character player of TV and movies, often cast as an urban detective or crook, Joe Santos is perhaps best remembered as Detective Dennis Becker, cop pal who respects James Garner's Jim Rockford, on "The Rockford Files" (NBC, 1974-80) and its numerous TV-movies.

Santos began his on-screen career with a bit part in "My Body Hungers", a low-budget 1967 film. Subsequent roles included DiBono in "The Panic in Needle Park" and Ezmo in "The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight" (both 1971). He was a little known working actor when cast in "The Rockford Files", which triggered much Continued

Credits

Emanuel
2000
Montoya
Frank
Frank Gallo
Spinelli
Lieutenant Promuto
Detective Guy Lean
Lieutenant Raymond Walsh

milestones

Year
Milestone
1952 
Served in US Army Medical Corps
1967 
Film debut "My Body Hungers"
1973 
TV-movie debut, "The Blue Knight" (NBC)
 
TV series debut as Detective Dennis Becker on "The Rockford Files" (NBC)
1980 
Starred on short-lived sitcom "Me and Maxx" (NBC)
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