Eddie Mekka, the actor who played Carmine Ragusa, the high school sweetheart of Cindy Williams’ Shirley Feeney on the hit ’70s sitcom Laverne & Shirley, died Saturday, Nov.
27, at his home in Newhall, California. He was 69.His death was announced on Facebook by longtime friend Pat Benti, who did not disclose a cause of death but noted that Mekka “passed away peacefully.”Michael McKean, who costarred on Laverne & Shirley as Lenny Kosnowski, remembered Mekka in a tweet: “A sad goodbye to Eddie Mekka this morning.
A genuinely good guy and purveyor of cheer whenever things got cheerless. Value these people. RIP, Eddie.”Mekka, born Edward Rudolph Mekjian in Worcester, Massachusetts, had attended the Berklee College of Music and had earned a Tony
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