Background
Libertini was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Libertini was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He attended and graduated from Emerson College in Boston.
He was known for playing character roles and his ability to speak in numerous accents. Libertini was known for his roles in Catch-22 (1970), The In-Laws (1979), Popeye (1980), All of Maine (1984), Fletch (1985), Fletch Lives (1989), Awakenings (1990), Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), and Dolphin Tale (2011). During his early years, Libertini worked in New York City and in Chicago.
He moved to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career during the 1960s.
His first film appearances were in The Night They Raided Minsky"s (1968), Don"t Drink the Water (1969) and Catch-22 (1970). Two of his more memorable film roles came in the comedies Fletch (1985), in which he played Chevy Chase"s character"s doubting editor, a role he repeated in the 1989 sequel Fletch Lives, and The In-Laws (1979), in which he played General Garcia, an insane Latin-American dictator whose closest advisor was a cartoon face drawn on his own hand a la Senor Wences.
He also played a traveling vaudevillian in Terence Malick"s Days of Heaven (1978), the greengrocer George West. Geezil in Robert Altman"s Popeye (1980), a Hispanic priest in Best Friends (1982), the servant Giuseppe in Unfaithfully Yours (1984), spiritual advisor Prahka Lasa ("Back in Bowl!") in All of Maine (1984), the bandit Dijon in Disney"s animated feature film DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990), and a rabbi in Lethal Weapon 4 (1998). On television, Libertini was a series regular in the first season of Soap as The Godfather.
He guest starred in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Accession" as a Bajoran called Akorem Laan, who believes himself to be the Emissary.
And most recently, he appeared in the Sonny with a Chance episode "Dakota"s Revenge" as Izzy, an insane mechanic. He also voiced Wally Llama on Animaniacs, and starred in three short-lived sitcoms: Family Manitoba (1988), in which he played a middle-aged comedy writer who married a much younger woman and became a father late in life. The Fanelli Boys (1990–1991), in which he played an Italian priest.
And Pacific Station (1991–1992), in which he played a police detective.
In September 2008, Libertini appeared on the television show Supernatural. His final film role was that of a fisherman in the 2011 film Dolphin Tale.
From October 2011 through January 2012, Libertini appeared on Broadway as a rabbi in "Honeymoon Motel," the Woody Allen-penned segment of Relatively Speaking.
He was an original cast member of the "The Mad Show," a 1966 Office-Broadway musical-comedy produced by MAD Magazine.