[Rummyfan]

Ben Ghazi was a film and stage actor that played, variously, a lawyer, a terminally ill patient, or a soldier on several TV dramas, back also in the 1960’s. Didn’t he die just a year or so back?

Yes, sadly, Ben Ghazi passed away in 2012.

[Kaslin]

You must mean Ben Gazzara.

He died February 3, 2012 at the age of 81

Movies he played in

• The Strange One (1957)
• Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
• Risate di gioia (1960)
• The Young Doctors (1961)
• Convicts 4 (1962)
• Conquered City (1962)
• Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
• A Rage to Live (1965)
• The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
• If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)
• Husbands (1970)
• Pursuit (1972)
• The Neptune Factor (1973)
• QB VII (1974)
• Capone (1975)
• The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
• Voyage of the Damned (1976)
• The Death of Richie (1977)
• Opening Night (1977)
• Saint Jack (1979)
• Bloodline (1979)
• Inchon (1981)
• They All Laughed (1981)
• Tales of Ordinary Madness (1982)
• The Girl from Trieste (1982)
• A Proper Scandal (1984)
• La donna delle meraviglie (1985)
• An Early Frost (1985)
• Figlio mio infinitamente caro (1985)
• The Professor (1986)
• Il Giorno prima (1987)
• Road House (1989)
• Forever (Per sempre) (1991)
• Lies Before Kisses (1991)
• Parallel Lives (1994)
• Shadow Conspiracy (1997)
• Stag (1997)
• The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
• Buffalo '66 (1998)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• Happiness (1998)
• Illuminata (1998)
• The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
• Summer of Sam (1999)
• Believe (2000)
• Very Mean Men (2000)
• Brian's Song (2001)
• Hysterical Blindness (2002)
• Dogville (2003)
• Pope John Paul II (2005)
• Quiet Flows the Don (2006)
• Paris, je t'aime (2006)
• Looking For Palladin (2008)
• 13 (2010)
• Ristabbanna (2011)