Real name: Joseph Charles Michael Tafarella

Effective period / Period of releases: 1958 - 1976

American comedian and actor.
Born May 25, 1932 in New York City, New York, USA.
Died June 22, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Rossi often worked and toured with fellow comedian Marty Allen. They starred in the 1966 film "The Last of the Secret Agents?", which Nancy Sinatra sang the title song to. The duo were brought together by singer Nat 'King' Cole in 1957, and went on to make more than 700 appearances on TV (44 of them on "The Ed Sullivan Show"), made 16 comedy albums and appeared in a failed movie spy spoof before splitting up in 1969. Allen & Rossi went on to reunite briefly on two occasions.
In 1969, after breaking up with Marty Allen, Rossi teamed with up with African-American comic Slappy White, becoming one of the first successful racially-mixed comedy acts.