The cause was heart failure after a long illness, Bob Palmer, a spokesman for Mr. Farentino, said. Farentino, who died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, lived in Los Angeles.
He had a long resume in television and film and once said of his career, "I've got a resume that could choke a horse. I'm impressed by it. Producers who are casting people, they're all in their 20s now. You show it to somebody in the motion picture industry or television, they don't know and they don't care."