A street-edged character player of TV and movies, often cast as an urban detective or crook, Joe Santos is perhaps best remembered as Detective Dennis Becker, cop pal who respects James Garner's Jim Rockford, on "The Rockford Files" (NBC, 1974-80) and its numerous TV-movies.
Santos began his on-screen career with a bit part in "My Body Hungers", a low-budget 1967 film. Subsequent roles included… See Full Joe Santos Biography