Robert "Bobby" Spillane, an actor who had roles on television's "Rescue Me" and "Law & Order," fell from his Midtown Manhattan apartment in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood near Times Square where his father had run rackets back in the 1960s and 1970s. No criminality was suspected in Bobby Spillane's death.

Jim McManus, Spillane's uncle and a longtime neighborhood power broker, called Spillane's death a "terribly sad accident." "He was the nicest kid in the world," said McManus, who is a district leader of the McManus Midtown Democratic Association, a political club. "He helped everyone."

Spillane, with one arm in a sling, had leaned on the screen of an open window to call out to his brother, Michael, who was on a street below, McManus said. The screen collapsed and Bobby Spillane fell, McManus said the brother told him.

"The screen gave out," McManus said. "He only had one arm and he went out with the screen." Spillane's father, who was known as the "gentleman gangster," was gunned down in 1977 by the rival "Westies," the Hell's Kitchen Irish mob.