In addition to his operatic career, he had a small role in the flashback sequences in The Godfather Part II (1974) as an impresario threatened by Don Fanucci.
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The Godfather Part II and The Conversation, in 1974, consolidated their collaboration, and laid the way for what was to be their joint creative challenge: Apocalypse Now, the film for which Tavoularis created a nightmare jungle kingdom, inspired by Angkor Wat.
He was portrayed by Frank Sivero in The Godfather Part II and by Franco Corsaro in The Godfather Trilogy.
The film received its name from a famed line from The Godfather Part II directed toward Cazale's character of Fredo Corleone, and acts as a retrospective of Cazale's distinguished acting career, which was cut short at age 42 when he died of bone cancer.
Many commentators on the internet and in broadcast media have referred to Jeff Wilpon as "Fredo" Wilpon, after the feeble-minded member of the Corleone family played by John Cazale in The Godfather and The Godfather Part II.
She landed a few acting roles in the 1970s, including a slot in 1977's British-Mexican shark thriller Tintorera and an uncredited spot in The Godfather Part II.