Personal Life and Family
Fresco was born to immigrants from Europe, Isaac and Lena Fresco. His father was born in 1880 and around 1905 immigrated from Istanbul to New York where he worked as a horticulturalist. He died in 1963. Fresco's mother was born in 1887 in Jerusalem and also migrated to New York around 1904. She died in 1988. Fresco was brother to two siblings, a sister, Freda, and a brother, David. His brother was born in 1909. He was a draftsman, a private during World War II, and became a theater actor and a character actor in Hollywood. After being blacklisted by Hollywood in the 1950s for not cooperating with the House Un-American Activities Committee, he resurrected his career in the 1960s eventually appearing in many films and television shows. He died in 1997.
Fresco had two marriages when he lived in Los Angeles, California and carried his second marriage through his first couple years in Miami. He divorced his second wife in 1957 and remained unmarried thereafter. His second wife, Patricia, gave birth to a son, Richard, in 1953 and a daughter, Bambi, in 1956. Richard was an army private and died in 1976. Bambi died of cancer in 2010.
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