Alfred Lettieri (February 24, 1928 – October 18, 1975) was an American actor.Lettieri's sister Jean was married to mobster Pasquale Eboli, brother of Genovese crime family boss Thomas Eboli.Lettieri had a role in the 1958 Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Fugitive Nurse," playing Arthur Strome but credited with the name Anthony Lettier.At the age of 36, he had a role in the television film The Hanged Man.Lettieri eventually would act with some of Hollywood's biggest screen names, such as Steve McQueen in The Getaway, Charles Bronson in Mr. Majestyk, John Wayne in McQ and both Marlon Brando and Al Pacino in The Godfather. Lettieri co-wrote the screenplay for the 1971 gangster movie Villain, which starred Richard Burton and Ian McShane.He died of a heart attack in 1975, at the age of 47, leaving behind two children.
Name is recorded as "Alfredo Lettieri" on the Social Security Death Index.
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In his two most remembered roles, "The Godfather" and "The Getaway", he plays a villain to characters who are also "bad guys" (the mafia in "The Godfather" and bank robbers in "The Getaway").
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Only actor credited as "starring" in The Godfather (1972) who is not on the poster.
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