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Happy Days Actor Tom Bosley Dead At 83.

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Actor Tom Bosley, shown in February 1990, was best known as Howard Cunningham in Happy Days. He died Tuesday.

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Tom Bosley, the American actor best known for playing the patient, understanding father on Happy Days, has died. He was 83.

Bosley died Tuesday of heart failure at a hospital near his home in Palm Springs after a battle with lung cancer.

As Howard Cunningham in Happy Days, which debuted in 1974, Bosley brought understated humour to the role of the exasperated father of Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard).

Bosley recalled in a 1986 interview that he at first turned down the role in the series about teen life in the 1950s.

"After rereading the pilot script, 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," he said.



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