Sammy Petrillo (October 24, 1934 â€" August 15, 2009) was an American
nightclub and movie comedian best known as a Jerry Lewis
imitator.Sammy Petrillo was born Sam Patrello in The Bronx, New York
City, New York, to a show-business family in which his mother, Anne
Jackowitz Patrello, was Alice Faye's double, and his father, Abraham
Patrello, "was a comic and a hoofer" [dancer] who performed in
Catskills Mountains resorts and went by the stage name Skelly
Petrillo. By age six, Sammy would sometimes join his father
onstage.Petrillo, who had one younger sibling, brother Marvin, was
raised in a housing project at 143rd Street and Morris Avenue, and
attended the High School of Performing Arts, in Manhattan.In a 1992
interview, he recalled the genesis of his Jerry Lewis look:
nightclub and movie comedian best known as a Jerry Lewis
imitator.Sammy Petrillo was born Sam Patrello in The Bronx, New York
City, New York, to a show-business family in which his mother, Anne
Jackowitz Patrello, was Alice Faye's double, and his father, Abraham
Patrello, "was a comic and a hoofer" [dancer] who performed in
Catskills Mountains resorts and went by the stage name Skelly
Petrillo. By age six, Sammy would sometimes join his father
onstage.Petrillo, who had one younger sibling, brother Marvin, was
raised in a housing project at 143rd Street and Morris Avenue, and
attended the High School of Performing Arts, in Manhattan.In a 1992
interview, he recalled the genesis of his Jerry Lewis look:
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