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Hollywood Remembers ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High’ Actor Taylor Negron

Hollywood is remembering Taylor Negron, 57, who died Saturday after a long battle with cancer and is known for his role as the Pizza Guy in 1982’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High. “I want to ...
Hollywood Remembers ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High’ Actor Taylor Negron
Written by Pam Wright
  • Hollywood is remembering Taylor Negron, 57, who died Saturday after a long battle with cancer and is known for his role as the Pizza Guy in 1982’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

    “I want to inform you that my cousin Taylor Negron just passed away. His mother, his brother Alex and my brother Rene and his wife Julie were all there with him,” his cousin, Chuck Negron, announced in a video. “May he rest in peace.”

    Remembered by Billy Crystal as a “brilliantly funny comedian,
    actor and wonderful painter,” Negron was a very familiar face to movie-goers. People magazine reports that he began his career when he was 19 as an intern for comedic legend Lucille Ball.

    A Glendale, California-native, he was well-known on the stand-up comedy circuit, as well as in many roles on film and television, including The Last Boy Scout with Bruce Willis, HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm with Larry David, along with appearances on Friends, ER, Wizards of Waverly Place and Seinfeld.

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