It’s an odd title to hold but Abe Vigoda, one of the stars of the Godfather movie franchise, is widely referred to as the man declared dead in internet hoaxes more often than anyone else.

Now, at the ripe old age of 94, Abe has finally passed away and this time it is for real. Not that everyone was convinced at first, given that there is a long and illustrious history of jumping the gun on this one. Here’s the Daily Beast:

He was dead in 1982, when People magazine declared him absent from the Barney Millerwrap party on account of his unfortunate passing.

He was dead again in 1987, when a local news reporter did the same thing.

He was dead all throughout the next four decades on David Letterman’s show, where the late-night host consistently referred to Vigoda’s ghost or had him on just to prove he was alive. (“So Abe, you’re anything but dead,” Letterman once said. “Well, thank you,” Vigoda replied.)

He was frequently dead in Conan O’Brien’s monologue and in guest appearances on sketches, at Drew Carey’s Friar’s Club Roast (he was in the audience, alive), and on his regularly vandalized Wikipedia page all throughout the 2000s.