The New York-born character actor was known for his roles in films including Midnight Run, Top Gun, and Beverly Hills Cop.
His film career included a role in the hit Eddie Murphy action-comedy Beverly Hills Cop, in which he memorably played a cigarette buyer, and Top Gun.
Pesce would return to the Beverly Hills Cop world for the 1987 sequel, playing a criminal whom Axel Foley (Murphy) accuses of being an undercover cop.
In Top Gun, Pesce played a bartender, while he featured as a crook who jumps bail in the beloved Robert DeNiro-Charles Grodin buddy comedy Midnight Run.