Jack Kehoe, the character actor known for his roles in the 1973 films Serpico and The Sting, died Jan. 4 at 85, his family announced Wednesday.

Kehoe, who enjoyed a 50-year career, had been inactive in recent years after suffering a debilitating stroke in 2015.

The actor scored some of his best of his roles throughout the 1970s, including that of Joe Erie, a.k.a. the Erie Kid, a grifter who’s part of Paul Newman and Robert Redford’s characters’ con game in the Best Picture winner The Sting. That same year he played cop Tom Keough in Sidney Lumet’s Serpico, opposite Al Pacino.