served as Distinguished Professor of Voice at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music from 1991 until he retired in 2006. He played guest roles on several television series in the 1970s and 1980s, including The Odd Couple, Baretta, Kojak, and Knight Rider. Tozzi published a novel in 1997, The Golem of the Golden West. Personal life Tozzi was twice married. He first married Catherine Dieringer, who died in 1963; in 1967 he married Monte Amundsen, a singer, with whom he had a son and a daughter. Tozzi died on May 30, 2011, in Bloomington, Indiana, aged 88, of a heart attack. He was survived by Amundsen, their children, Eric Tozzi and Jennifer Tozzi Hauser, and three grandchildren. Partial filmography South Pacific (1958) – Emile De Becque (singing voice) Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1971) – Hans Sachs Shamus (1973) – Dottore References External links Interview with Giorgio Tozzi by Bruce Duffie, January 17, 1988 1923 births 2011 deaths American operatic basses Brigham Young University faculty Indiana University faculty American people of Italian descent Singers from Chicago DePaul University alumni Juilliard School faculty 20th-century American male opera singers RCA Victor artists