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- Joe Amsler was born on September 24, 1940 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for What's Up, Doc? (1972), The Main Event (1979) and Nickelodeon (1976). He died on May 6, 2006 in Salem, Virginia, USA.
- Became famous when he and two other cohorts kidnapped Frank Sinatra Jr. at gunpoint from a Lake Tahoe hotel on December 8, 1963. They released him three days later unharmed for a $240,000 ransom. They were all sentenced to life in prison, but later their sentences were commuted, and he served less than five years in prison.
- Played by Ryan Browning in Stealing Sinatra (2003).
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