Richard Libertini (born May 21, 1933) is an American stage, film and television actor known for playing numerous character roles and his ability to speak in numerous accents.
Libertini was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was an original cast member of the "The Mad Show," a 1966 Off-Broadway musical-comedy produced by MAD Magazine. Two of his more memorable film roles came in the comedies Fletch, in which he played Chevy Chase's doubting editor, a role he repeated in the 1989 sequel Fletch Lives, and The In-Laws, 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 cobbler George W. Geezil in Robert Altman's Popeye (1980), a Hispanic priest in Best Friends (1982), the bandit Dijon in Walt Disney's child cartoon DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990), spiritual advisor Prahka Lasa ("Back in de bowl!") in All of Me (1984), and a rabbi in Lethal Weapon 4 (1997).
On television, Libertini was a series regular in the first season of Soap as The Godfather; he guest starred in the Star
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