Sammy Petrillo Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Sammy Petrillo Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

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:
Sammy Petrillo Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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