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Salvatore "Sal" Tessio is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather, ... Tessio goes quietly as he is taken away to be killed. In sequel novels
The fictional Corleone crime family traces its roots to 1920, when Vito Corleone assassinated Little Italy's padrone, Don Fanucci, and took over Fanucci's territory along with his friends Genco Abbandando, Peter Clemenza and Salvatore Tessio. Shortly afterward, he founded the Genco Pura Olive Oil Company which was named after his closest friend ...
With Capone out of the picture, the great mob war of 1933 began in earnest. Desperate for peace, Maranzano agreed to a sit down in a restaurant in Brooklyn, where he was killed by Salvatore Tessio, a capo in the Corleone family. Afterwards, Corleone took over Maranzano's organization and held a meeting to reorganize the American Mafia ...
John Aprea, the actor who played John Stamos' character's father on "Full House" and Sal Tessio in "The Godfather Part II" during a Hollywood career that spanned nearly 60 years, has died at 83 ...
Actor John Aprea, known for playing Salvatore Tessio in The Godfather Part II and mob muscle in 1991's New Jack City, has died at the age of 83. Aprea died on August 5 of natural causes, according ...
After Salvatore "Sal" Tessio is executed for betraying Michael, Neri is promoted to caporegime of Tessio's former crew, and plays a key role in the wave of murders that re-establishes the Corleones as the most powerful crime family in the nation.
John Aprea, the esteemed character actor who portrayed Salvatore Tessio in The Godfather Part II and the father of John Stamos’ Jesse Katsopolis in Full House, has died. He was 83. He was 83.
The other half of the novel goes deeper into Michael's role as Don and his dream of legitimizing the Corleone family. The novel expands on Michael's service in World War II as well as his brother Fredo's secret life. The novel shows how Sonny, Fredo and Tom Hagen join the family business, as well as the deaths of Peter Clemenza and Salvatore ...