a former fast food restaurant chain based in Baltimore, Maryland Gino's Hamburgers – A local Baltimore establishment co-founded by Alan Ameche with Gino Marchetti. List of fast food restaurants List of defunct fast-food restaurant chains Death Ameche had undergone triple bypass surgery at age 46 in 1979. He died of a heart attack in 1988 at age 55 at Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, a few days after undergoing another heart bypass surgery, under the care of Dr. Michael DeBakey. He is interred at Calvary Cemetery in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. References Further reading External links 1933 births 1988 deaths American football fullbacks Baltimore Colts players Wisconsin Badgers football players All-American college football players College Football Hall of Fame inductees Heisman Trophy winners Western Conference Pro Bowl players Mary D. Bradford High School alumni Sportspeople from the Milwaukee metropolitan area Sportspeople from Kenosha, Wisconsin Players of American football from Wisconsin American people of Italian descent