What Famous TV Commercial Actors Get Paid

This Man Has Many Faces

Somack was in The Frisco Kid, Sanford and Son, Carlton Your Doorman, Desperate Characters, Portnoy's Complaint, and many more movies and shows of the past. "That's a spicy meatball" was actually one of the lower-grade gigs that he took. In fact, they only paid him $10,000 for the whole thing.

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