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Tom Bosley (Mr. Cunningham) has died

Posted on 10/19/2010 10:57:11 AM PDT by cuz_it_aint_their_money

Tom Bosley the folksy father of Richie Cunningham on the '70s sitcom
about the '50s, ABC's Happy Days, died Tuesday in his Palm Springs, Calif., home,
of a staph infection.
On Oct. 1 he had turned 83.



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To: cuz_it_aint_their_money

Wow—he looked so different in his latter years. Would never have guessed that was him from the posted pic.


21 posted on 10/19/2010 11:05:57 AM PDT by tflabo
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To: massmike
...Let's try that again.....


22 posted on 10/19/2010 11:06:30 AM PDT by massmike (...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
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To: Genoa

>>>Beaver’s mom, Richie’s dad . . . not a good week.

Amen.


23 posted on 10/19/2010 11:06:30 AM PDT by Keith in Iowa (FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
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To: tflabo

TRIVIA QUIZ: Who was Harold Gould?


24 posted on 10/19/2010 11:06:54 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: cuz_it_aint_their_money

25 posted on 10/19/2010 11:08:30 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: massgopguy

He was Rhoda’s father


26 posted on 10/19/2010 11:08:45 AM PDT by massmike (...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
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To: massgopguy

...and he was the original Mr C in the Love American Style show where Happy Days started


27 posted on 10/19/2010 11:09:37 AM PDT by massmike (...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
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To: Genoa

Andy Griffith looks delicate.

(Opie’s first Dad).


29 posted on 10/19/2010 11:10:29 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair; man's surrender. Laughter; God's redemption.)
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Bosley with Tracy Nelson - Ricky Nelson's daughter and Mark Harmon's niece- James Stephens and Mary Wickes in Father Dowling Mysteries.

30 posted on 10/19/2010 11:14:04 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: cuz_it_aint_their_money
Whoa! I would not have recognized him from that picture. Maybe had I seen him on TV and heard him speak -- very distinctive when speaking. He was old school that way. Didn't mumble or shout likes today's "actors" and celebrities do.

He was good in whatever he did. Even the bit part in Rod Serling's *Night Gallery* series.

31 posted on 10/19/2010 11:14:56 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: tflabo
-- Would never have guessed that was him from the posted pic. --

Would have taken awhile, but sure, it's Bosley. Big ears in old age!

Prayers for his family and friends - I never heard a bad thing about the man. Maybe just as sweet in real life as the characters he played on screen.

32 posted on 10/19/2010 11:14:59 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: JoeProBono

In the first season they also had a son named Chuck who was quickly written out of the series


34 posted on 10/19/2010 11:17:57 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: massgopguy

“Love and the Happy Days”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNHuI0Pw0m8


35 posted on 10/19/2010 11:18:33 AM PDT by massmike (...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
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To: massmike

Both Happy Days and Wait Till Your Father Gets Home had their pilot episodes on Love American Style


36 posted on 10/19/2010 11:18:54 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: cuz_it_aint_their_money

Rest in peace Mr. Bosley.


37 posted on 10/19/2010 11:21:38 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

He was in a wonderful Christmas movie called Mary Christmas, too.


38 posted on 10/19/2010 11:23:42 AM PDT by Politicalmom
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
Toward the end of that show's run they'd seemingly stopped even pretending that the show was set in the '50s - I remember the dad character wearing tinted '70s sunglasses and loud '70s clothing. Unintentionally funny.

Remember Alan Alda's hair in MASH? He would be placed on report today, never mind in the early '50s for that mop he wore.

39 posted on 10/19/2010 11:34:31 AM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: massmike

CORRECTAMUNDO!


40 posted on 10/19/2010 11:38:24 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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