Taylor Negron, comedian who played pizza man in 'Ridgemont High,' dies at 57
He was the surly pizza man who interrupted a class at Ridgemont High to deliver a double cheese and sausage to the cool student played by Sean Penn.
Taylor Negron
1957-2015
He was the surly pizza man who interrupted a class at Ridgemont High to deliver a double cheese and sausage to the cool student played by Sean Penn.
He was the Olsen twins' prissy, Spanish-accented nanny Manuelo in So Little Time. He was the nutty hairdresser on Seinfeld who suggested drenching Elaine's hair with tomato sauce.
He was a sadistic, would-be assassin chewed up by a churning helicopter rotor in The Last Boy Scout (1991) .
A comedian and an actor, Taylor Negron wrote plays and delivered acerbic, hilarious, story-length monologues, but his name wasn't nearly as well known as his face.
"I'm not famous," he said in a 2013 Ted talk. "I'm fame-ish."
Negron, a Los Angeles native who nostalgically recalled his hometown "when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern," died on Saturday at his Los Angeles home, surrounded by friends and family members. He was 57.