[1] John LaMotta was born in Brooklyn, New York, on January 8, 1939.
He started acting for director Sam Firstenberg in his debut film One More Chance in 1981.
[3] From 1986 to 1990 he played the insensitive neighbor Trevor Ochmonek in Paul Fuscos ALF.
In 2010 he told in an interview: "I thought the show ALF was a piece of sh*t … worst work I ever did.“[4] After ALF, LaMotta played numerous small roles on television including the series ER, Growing Pains, and Frasier.
In the last years of his life he was involved in a theatrical group in Los Angeles.