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- Leonard Melfi was born on February 21, 1932 in Binghamton, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Oh! Calcutta! (1972), Birdbath (2013) and Lady Liberty (1971). He died on October 28, 2001 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Melfi's body was lost after his death at Mount Sinai Hospital and found in a potter's field grave four months later.
- Author of 40 plays, including the one-act play "Birdbath", 1965, he was considered one of the star playwrights of Off Off Broadway world of New York City in the 1960s. The anticlimatic, all-but-forgotten end of his life was described in a NY Times story, April 17, 2002.
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