Michael Delano, who played the obnoxious lounge singer Johnny Venture on Rhoda, died on Oct. 20. He was 84. Delano danced on American Bandstand as a teen, and worked as a real-life lounge singer (a career he kept up till recently). Delano was tall, handsome, and a good singer and actor, but he had rotten luck with film and TV vehicles. He costarred in the flop shows Firehouse, Flamingo Road, and Supertrain, also playing the casino manager in Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Twelve and bit parts in 9 to 5, The Rockford Files, Wonder Woman, Starsky & Hutch, Charlie’s Angels, Taxi, Perfect Strangers, Private Benjamin, The Fall Guy, The A-Team, Cagney & Lacey, Hill Street Blues, Falcon Crest, Silk Stalkings, and Chicago Hope. Delano lived and worked in Las Vegas.
