Tom "MR. C" Bosley Passes On

Actor Tom Bosley has passed on this morning and joined a better place. The news came today from the family of Mr. Bosley as he succumbed to a staph infection that he had been battling for quite some time. Born Thomas Edward Bosley, but better known as Tom Bosley, he enjoyed a brilliant and very lucrative acting career for over fifty years. Known best for his role on Happy Days as Mr. Howard Cunningham or "Mr. C" as Fonzarelli often referred to him, Bosley was a star that shined bright for many a year in Hollywood. Bosley won a Tony in 1958 for his portrayal of NY Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in Fiorello The Musical on Broadway. Bosley also was a star in Father Dowling Mysteries, Murder She Wrote, The Backup Plan, provided voice over work in cartoons David the Gnome and Wait Till Your Father Gets Home and many many more shows and movies (see below). You will be missed, Mr. Bosley.

Born: 1-Oct-1927

Birthplace: Chicago, IL

Gender: MaleReligion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: WhiteSexual orientation: StraightOccupation: Actor
Nationality: United StatesExecutive summary: Dad on Happy Days
Military service: US Navy
Wife: Jane Eliot (m. 8-Mar-1962, d. 1978, one child)Wife: Patricia Carr (m. 21-Dec-1980)Daughter: Amy


    University: DePaul University

    Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors
    Tony 1958 for Fiorello!

    TELEVISION
    Happy Days Howard Cunningham (1974-84)
    Murder, She Wrote Sheriff Amos Tupper (1984-88)
    Father Dowling Mysteries Fr. Frank Dowling (1989-91)
    Port Charles Bert (1999)
    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    The Back-up Plan (23-Apr-2010)
    Charlie & Me (5-Jan-2008)
    Hidden Places (28-Jan-2006)
    Popstar (8-Nov-2005)
    Christmas at Water's Edge (4-Dec-2004)
    Paper Clips (2-May-2004) Himself
    Broadway: The Golden Age (Apr-2003) Himself
    Mary Christmas (29-Nov-2002)
    Returning Mickey Stern (20-Jan-2002)
    Wicked Stepmother (3-Feb-1989)
    Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night (6-Aug-1987) [VOICE]
    O'Hara's Wife (8-Jul-1982)
    The Rebels (14-May-1979)
    The Castaways on Gilligan's Island (3-May-1979)
    The Bastard (22-May-1978)
    Black Market Baby (7-Oct-1977)
    Gus (7-Jul-1976)
    The Night That Panicked America (31-Oct-1975)
    Death Cruise (30-Oct-1974)
    Mixed Company (18-Oct-1974)
    To Find a Man (20-Jan-1972)
    Vanished (8-Mar-1971)
    Yours, Mine and Ours (24-Apr-1968)
    The Secret War of Harry Frigg (29-Feb-1968)
    The Bang-Bang Kid (19-Nov-1967)
    Divorce American Style (21-Jun-1967)
    The World of Henry Orient (19-Mar-1964)
    Love with the Proper Stranger (25-Dec-1963) 
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