Nicholas Colasanto

Nicholas Colasanto (1924 - 1985)
Television director
==Film Deaths==
None known.
==TV Deaths==
*The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Final Escape (1964) [Work Partner]: Fatally injured when a log falls on him in the prison workyard; he dies in the infirmary some time later, while Edd Byrnes considers finishing him off in order to facilitate Edd's escape plan.
*The F.B.I.: The Camel's Nose (1966) [Billy Milton]: Beaten to death with a pool cue by Murray Hamilton.
*Ironside: The Challenge (1968) [Mike Sellino]: Killed (off-screen) by unknown means in his studio by Tom Simcox.
*Cheers: Birth, Death, Love and Rice (1985) [Coach Ernie Pantusso]: Dies (off-screen) of unspecified natural causes; we learn of his death afterwards when Ted Danson informs Woody Harrelson. (Nicholas did not appear in this episode, as it was filmed after his real-life death; this is the episode that establishes the character's death.)
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