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Termo was born in Brooklyn, New New York
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Leonard Termo
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He worked as a businessman in Manhattan"s Garment District until he left the industry in the mid-1970s to pursue acting as a full-time profession. I"m broke. I sleep on a cot." Termo made his film debut in the 1983 movie Heart Like a Wheel. Termo was cast opposite Rourke in five of his films throughout the 1980s, beginning with the The Pope of Greenwich Village in 1984.
Rourke and Termo had appeared together in Year of the Dragon in 1985, Barfly in 1987, A Prayer for the Dying, also released in 1987, and Homeboy in 1988.
Termo and Rourke were also set to co-star in a film on 1930s era gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond (with Rourke as Diamond and Termo portraying Diamond"s bodyguard), but the proposed Embassy Pictures movie was never made. Termo"s other 1980s film roles included The Cotton Club in 1984.
Johnny Dangerously in 1984. And Turk 182 in 1985.
His film career continued in the 1990s and 2000s with parts in Ruby in 1992.
The Tim Burton film, Editor Wood, in 1994, in which he played a make-up artist. Lost Highway in 1997. Fight Club in 1999; and Ali in 2001.
His television credits included Wiseguy and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
Termo guest starred on the premiere episode of the comedy television series Seinfeld"s fifth season. In "The Mango", aired on September 16, 1993, Termo portrayed the owner of Joe"s Fruits store, who bans both Kramer (Michael Richards) and Jerry Seinfeld from his store after Kramer criticizes one of his bad peaches.
Termo died in his sleep at his home in Santa Clarita, California, on October 30, 2012, at the age of 77.
