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Matt Tufo (10 May 1947 – 18 February 2018; age 70) was an actor who appeared as a barber aboard the USS Enterprise-D in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "Data's Day" and "Ensign Ro". He received no credit for his appearances and was identified by the call sheet for the latter episode for which he filmed his scene on Tuesday 6 August 1991 on Paramount Stage 9.
In 1982 he appeared as a party guest in the Falcon Crest episode "Heir Apparent" along with Robert Foxworth, Nick Ramus, Mario Marcelino, and Robert Sampson. In 1989 Tufo played a detective in the action comedy Tango & Cash which featured Trek performers Marc Alaimo, Roy Brocksmith, Cibby Danyla, John Walter Davis, Richard Fancy, Teri Hatcher, Clint Howard, Leslie Morris, Glenn Morshower, Michael J. Pollard, Phil Rubenstein, Martin Valinsky, and Philip Weyland. In 1990, Tufo appeared alongside Bruce Dobos as a Secret Service Agent guarding the president in The Golden Girls episode "The President's Coming! The President's Coming! Part 2" and as a bar patron in the Cheers episode "Woody Interruptus", with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, Michael Keenan, Paul Willson, Don Bennett, Rebecca Soladay, and Curt Truman.
Tufo died on 18 February 2018. (SAG-AFTRA Magazine, Summer 2018, p.52)
External link[]
- Matt Tufo at the Internet Movie Database