Actor Robert Bobby Spillane died on Saturday after plunging from the 6th floor of his Hell’s Kitchen apartment in Manhattan. He was the son of infamous mobster Mickey Spillane (1924-1977).
The 45-year-old was discovered at 8:00 a.m. on the sidewalk outside of his Eighth Avenue building by his lawyer brother Michael Spillane, who was coming from a local Starbucks when he witnessed the fall and called 911.
According to an uncle, James McManus, Bobby was leaning against a screen when it gave way and he fell through an open window. “He called out to his brother on the street, and he stuck one arm out and screamed to Michael. The screen then collapsed and Robert fell out with it.”
Spillane appeared in small roles on NYPD Blue, Law and Order and Rescue Me.
He was the youngest of three children of Irish-American mobster Mickey Spillane, who for decades ran the rackets for the “Westies” Irish gang. Called the “last of the gentlemen gangsters”, he was shot to death in 1977.
Bobby Spillane was 12-years-old and witnessed his father’s murder. He said, “I was a kid. We were living in Queens. Someone buzzed on the door. It was Friday the 13th, 1977. He answered the door and was gunned down by a hail of bullets.”
Besides his brother and a sister Denise, he is survived by his wife Heather.
More photos of father and son below: