Wednesday, October 20, 2010

TOM BOSLEY PASSES

 

TOM BOSLEY

"Happy Days" dad Tom Bosley died of heart failure Tuesday after a battle with lung cancer, his wife said. He was 83.

Bosley's 50 years as a television actor included roles on dozens of shows, but he was best known as Howard Cunningham, the patriarch of a 1950s "Happy Days" family, a show that aired for 11 seasons starting in 1974.

Before his "Happy Days" work, Bosley was found regular work on "Love, American Style," "Night Gallery," "The Debbie Reynolds Show" and dozens of other television shows.

Bosley stayed busy through the 1980s, including several "Love Boat" episodes. He co-starred on 19 episodes of Angela Lansbury's "Murder, She Wrote" between 1984 and 1988.

Bosley played the title role in "Father Dowling Mysteries," a series that ran on television for four years, beginning in 1987 and his distinctive voice was heard in numerous broadcast commercials and animation productions.

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