Brock Posted October 19, 2010 Report Share Posted October 19, 2010 Lucy's Yours, Mine & Ours co-star Tom Bosley has died at 83: LOS ANGELES – Tom Bosley, the patient, understanding father on television's long-running "Happy Days," has died. He was 83. Bosley died of heart failure early Tuesday at a hospital near his Palm Springs home. Bosley's agent, Sheryl Abrams, said he was also battling lung cancer. TV Guide ranked Bosley's Happy Days character No. 9 on its list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" in 2004. The show debuted in 1974 and ran for 11 seasons. After "Happy Days" ended, Bosley went on to a recurring role in "Murder, She Wrote" as Sheriff Amos Tucker. He also was the crime-solving priest in television's "The Father Dowling Mysteries," which ran from 1989 to 1991. When he was first offered the costarring role in "Happy Days," a series about teenage life in the 1950s, he turned it down. "After rereading the pilot script," he recalled in a 1986 interview, "I changed my mind because of a scene between Howard Cunningham and Richie. The father/son situation was written so movingly, I fell in love with the project." Propelled by the nation's nostalgia for the simple pleasures of the 1950s, "Happy Days," which debuted in 1974, slowly built to hit status, becoming television's top-rated series by its third season. It made a star of Henry Winkler, who played hip-talking, motorcycle-riding hoodlum Arthur "Fonzi" Fonzarelli. His image initially clashed with that of Richie and his "straight" friends. But over the show's 11-season run Fonzarelli would transform himself from high school dropout to successful businessman. Grey Mumford, a CBS publicist who issued a statement on behalf of the family, said Bosley is survived by his wife, Patricia Bosley, his brother Richard Bosley, his daughter Amy Baer, stepdaughters Kimberly diBonaventura and Jamie Van Meter and seven grandchildren. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101019/ap_on_en_tv/us_obit_tom_bosley (A memorial logo will be posted tonight) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted October 19, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2010 Lucy's Yours, Mine & Ours co-star Tom Bosley has died at 83: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101019/ap_on_en_tv/us_obit_tom_bosley (A memorial logo will be posted tonight) With June Cleaver and Howard Cunningham dying in far less than a week, I hope there isn't another iconic TV parent prepping to complete the death trifecta. June Lockheart best mix herself a daiquiri and lie low for the next few days... Doesn't it also seem strange that BOTH Howard Cunninghams (the other being Harold Gould) have died within a month? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuttyNose Posted October 19, 2010 Report Share Posted October 19, 2010 Yes Brock..it does! Let's all hold our candles a little higher tonight in memory of Tom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucyfan101 Posted October 19, 2010 Report Share Posted October 19, 2010 Oh no!! Mr. C has passed away. I'll miss him. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted October 20, 2010 Report Share Posted October 20, 2010 Oh no!! Mr. C has passed away. I'll miss him. :( Let us not forget that he was a Tony Award winner for his title role in the Tony's Best Musical of 1960 "Fiorello". He was the "Fred Mertz" of "The Debby Reynolds Show'--Jess Oppenheimer's attempt to recycle I Love Lucy for Debby. ALSO he was the poor schmuck who sold his eyes to Joan Crawford in her infamous "Night Gallery" segment directed by a young Steven Speilburg! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert13 Posted October 20, 2010 Report Share Posted October 20, 2010 He will be missed. I enjoyed watching him on MURDER, SHE WROTE. He also guest-starred in an episode of Shirley Booth's final sitcom A TOUCH OF GRACE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted October 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 "But for Marion Ross, today was not a Happy Day." -- Entertainment Tonight correspondant :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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