Biografie

Mr. Coco was memorialized in an episode of the hit sitcom "Who's the Boss?"S4, E7, A Farewell to Nick (1987). The series had featured him in a recurring role, his last, as "Grandpa Nick".

Lived for quite some time in his Greenwich apartment near friends playwrights Terrence McNally, Paddy Chayefsky, and Israel Horovitz; and actor Robert Drivas, where they all would often get together for a weekly game of poker.

Following his sudden death, he was interred at Saint Gertrude's Roman Catholic Cemetery in Colonia, Middlesex County, New Jersey.

Resuming press interviews in connection with a Diet Coke commercial he filmed in 1986 (after being out of work for a while), he said he was proud of having lost 42 pounds for the job.

He, Glenn Close and Maria Bakalova are the only three actors to receive Oscar, Golden Globe and Razzie nominations for the same film role. These honors came to Coco for Mrs. Hines & Tochter (1981), Close's for Hillbilly: Elegie (2020), and Bakalova's for Borat: Anschluss Moviefilm (2020). Amy Irving was nominated for an Oscar and a Razzie for Yentl (1983), but not a Golden Globe. Bakalova's Razzie nomination, however, was in the Worst Screen Combo category alongside Rudy Giuliani, her name ultimately removed from the final ballot to be replaced by "[Giuliani's] pants zipper". Coco, Close, Irving and Bakalova would not win from any of these nominations, although Giuliani and his pants zipper would prevail in that category.