By “Bad” Brad Berkwitt

Popular character actor Leonard Termo who starred opposite Mickey Rourke in five different movies to include, THE POPE OF GREENWICH VILLAGE, YEAR OF THE DRAGON, BARFLY, PRAYER FOR THE DYING and HOMEBOY has died at the age of 77. Rourke became friends with Termo after seeing him in a Los Angeles theater production, and the two remained friends to the end of his life.

“If they told me they’d chuck a few years off my life, but I knew when I went that Lenny would go with me, I’d do it in a second,” Rourke said in a 1987 Playboy interview.

Actor Elias Koteas said a memorial service is planned for Jan. 15, with details to be announced.

NewzBreaker sends our deepest condolences to the Termo family in their time of grief.