‘90210’ actor dead at 85: Joe E. Tata ran the Peach Pit
remembered Tata on Instagram Thursday, writing, “In the last few months we’ve lost Jessica Klein one of 90210’s most prolific writers and producers, Denise Douse who played Mrs. Teasley, and now I’m very sad to say Joe E Tata has passed away. “ “Joey was truly an OG, I remember seeing him on the ‘Rockford Files’ with James Garner years before we worked together on ‘90210,’” Ziering, 58, said of the native New Yorker who co-starred with Tata alongside original series stars Shannon Doherty, Jason Priestley, Tori Spelling, Jenni Garth, Brian Austin Green, Gabrielle Carteris and the late Luke Perry.“He was often one of the background villains in the original ‘Batman’ series,” Ziering added.