Dan Hedaya (born July 24, 1940) is an American actor. While a student at Tufts University, he began performing at the campus theater. He often plays sleazy villains or uptight, wisecracking individuals; two of his best-known roles are as a cuckolded husband in the Coen brothers' crime thriller Blood Simple, and the scheming Nick Tortelli on the sitcom Cheers.
Cold Rock Penitentiary in the E Block, There is Paul Edgecomb, Dean, Brutal, Harry, and Percy who work on the Green Mile, and they meet each Death Row inmate.
