"<a href=""http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/26/entertainment/abe-vigoda-dead-obit-feat/"" target=""_blank"">Abe Vigoda</a>, the long-surviving ""Godfather"" and ""Barney Miller"" actor, died January 26 at age 94. Vigoda became famous for his role as the decrepit detective Phil Fish on the television series ""Barney Miller,"" but it was the inaccurate reporting of his death in 1982 that led to a decades-long joke that he was still alive. He played into the joke in late-night television appearances with Conan O'Brien and David Letterman."