{"id":56270,"date":"2022-08-25T18:50:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T18:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/beverly-hills-90210-star-joe-e-tata-dead-at-85\/"},"modified":"2022-08-25T18:50:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T18:50:56","slug":"beverly-hills-90210-star-joe-e-tata-dead-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/beverly-hills-90210-star-joe-e-tata-dead-at-85\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Beverly Hills, 90210&#8217; star Joe E. Tata dead at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Joe E. Tata \u2014 best known as the owner of the Peach Pit on \u201cBeverly Hills, 90210\u201d \u2014 has died.  He was 85. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Joe E. Tata attends the \u201cBeverly Hills, 90210\u201d Peach Pit pop-up on August 03, 2019.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Castmate Ian Ziering remembered Tata on Instagram Thursday, writing, \u201cIn the last few months we&#8217;ve lost Jessica Klein one of 90210&#8217;s most prolific writers and producers, Denise Douse who played Mrs.  Teasley, and now I&#8217;m very sad to say Joe E Tata has passed away.<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cJoey was truly an OG, I remember seeing him on the &#8216;Rockford Files&#8217; with James Garner years before we worked together on &#8216;90210,&#8217; \u201d Ziering, 58, said of the native New Yorker who co-starred alongside original series stars Shannen Doherty, Jason Priestley, Tori Spelling, Jennie Garth, Brian Austin Green, Gabrielle Carteris and the late Luke Perry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was often one of the background villains in the original &#8216;Batman&#8217; series,\u201d Ziering added.  \u201cOne of the happiest people I&#8217;ve ever worked with, he was as generous with his wisdom as he was with his kindness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tata was diagnosed with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease in 2014. <\/p>\n<p>The Post has contacted the veteran character actor&#8217;s reps for comment. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/Joe-E-Tata-19.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"cast of &quot;Beverly Hills, 90210.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-23611245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/Joe-E-Tata-19.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/Joe-E-Tata-19.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/Joe-E-Tata-19.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Brian Austin Green, Gabrielle Carteris, Joe E. Tata, Vincent Young, Ian Ziering, Jennie Garth, Luke Perry and Tori Spelling of \u201cBeverly Hills, 90210.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">FilmMagic, Inc.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brandon Walsh and Nat Pay off Duke Beverly Hills 90210 Duke&#039;s Bad Boy S3E23 Peach Pit\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nc3FWm9uCHU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>He appeared in 238 episodes of \u201c90210\u201d from 1990 to 2000 as Nat Bussichio \u2014 the owner of the diner where the high schoolers would hang out. <\/p>\n<p>Tata reprized his role in several appearances of the show&#8217;s spinoff.  <\/p>\n<p>His other credits include \u201cMagnum PI,\u201d \u201cThe Rockford Files,\u201d \u201cHill Street Blues,\u201d \u201cBatman\u201d and \u201cThe A-Team.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe E. Tata \u2014 best known as the owner of the Peach Pit on \u201cBeverly Hills, 90210\u201d \u2014 has died. He was 85. Joe E. Tata attends the \u201cBeverly Hills, 90210\u201d Peach Pit pop-up on August 03, 2019.Getty Images Castmate Ian Ziering remembered Tata on Instagram Thursday, writing, \u201cIn the last few months we&#8217;ve lost &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/beverly-hills-90210-star-joe-e-tata-dead-at-85\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Beverly Hills, 90210&#8217; star Joe E. Tata dead at 85<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[16294,12711,2216,109,3229],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56254,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/beverly-hills-90210-actor-joe-e-tata-dies-at-85-co-star-ian-ziering-leads-tributes-to-the-star\/","url_meta":{"origin":56270,"position":0},"title":"Beverly Hills 90210 actor Joe E. 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