LOS ANGELES — Joe E. Tata, the actor who famously played the Peach Pit’s wise owner Nat Bussichio in the 1990s drama “Beverly Hills, 90210,” has died at age 85.
Tata died Thursday morning in a Southern California care facility, according to his court-appointed attorney Richard W. Sharpe, who manages the actor’s conservatorship.
Though he did not provide a cause of death, Sharpe said that Tata had “been ill for quite a while now and was going downhill.”
