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Godfather Star RIP

"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."

Al Martino, the goombah behind perhaps the most famous line in movie history, has died at 82 in his native Pennsylvania, according to his publicist.

Despite a five-decade music career that included a handful of hits ("Volare," "Can't Help Falling in Love"), Martino is destined to be remembered as Johnny Fontane in The Godfather. The Sinatra-esque singer is granted a big Hollywood break by Marlon Brando's Don Vito Corleone, who uses his power of persuasion to convince a stubborn movie producer to hire Fontane, at the expense of the producer's prized horse.

Martino, who crooned the movie's love theme, also popped up briefly in the 1990 sequel, The Godfather Part III. No doubt it  was an offer he couldn't refuse.

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E! Online remembers the late, great Marlon Brando.

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