# Actor Tom "Happy Days" Bosley Dead At 83 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 19, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-tom-happy-days-bosley-dead-at-83/557680 "2010-10-19T17:50:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-tom-happy-days-bosley-dead-at-83/557680/1 "2010-10-19T17:50:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Family members tell us Bosley had been battling a staph infection. > > He was 83 years old. > > UPDATE: A rep for the Bosley’s tells TMZ Tom “died of natural causes or specifically, from a brief battle with lung cancer.” Full Story at [TMZ](http://www.tmz.com/2010/10/19/tom-bosley-happy-days-dead-died-mr-cunningham/) ---
**Author:** ![Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fried_Dough_Ho)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-tom-happy-days-bosley-dead-at-83/557680/2 "2010-10-19T17:52:02Z")
Sorry about him, but hilarious that the guys at TMZ mistook STAFF for STAPH… ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-tom-happy-days-bosley-dead-at-83/557680/3 "2010-10-19T17:59:03Z")
First Barbara Billingsley, now Tom Bosley. Tracey Jordan better watch out… ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-tom-happy-days-bosley-dead-at-83/557680/4 "2010-10-19T18:03:11Z")
Later, Mr. C. R.I.P. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-tom-happy-days-bosley-dead-at-83/557680/5 "2010-10-19T18:04:41Z")
That’s sad. I remember hmi more for his stagework.He played New York mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in the long-running Broadway musical Fiorello! and he won a Tony Award.[4] I saw him in on Broadway, as he originated the role of Maurice in the Broadway version of Disney’s Beauty & the Beast. He was good. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-tom-happy-days-bosley-dead-at-83/557680/6 "2010-10-19T18:08:13Z")
Mr. C succumbs to the Big C. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-tom-happy-days-bosley-dead-at-83/557680/7 "2010-10-19T18:20:45Z")
[MSNBC story with photos](http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39743395/ns/today-entertainment/) ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-tom-happy-days-bosley-dead-at-83/557680/8 "2010-10-19T18:35:38Z")
Don’t get mad, get Glad. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-tom-happy-days-bosley-dead-at-83/557680/9 "2010-10-19T18:37:32Z")
He’s gone to be with Chuck. He gave a couple of blunt interviews in later years. He seemed to have liked everybody on _Happy Days_ with the exception of Erin Moran (Joanie) who he did not say anything bad about but wouldn’t discuss in any way (apparently bad blood there). He said his least favorite person that he ever worked with barring none was Lucille Ball (he played the doctor in _Yours Mine & Ours_). When I was in elementary school I saw some sort of school PSA type film that was done like a sitcom and it floored all of us like they’d lifted the veil at Avalon. It starred Tom Bosley and Marion Ross (Mr. & Mrs. C from _Happy Days_) BUT it was filmed in the _Brady Bunch_ house. I don’t even remember what it was about (it would have been made in the 1970s and was health related IIRC so… smoking? drinking? erectile dysfunction?). Does anybody else remember having seen this? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-tom-happy-days-bosley-dead-at-83/557680/10 "2010-10-19T18:43:05Z")
Aw, shit. First Mrs. Cleaver, now Mr. C. Who’s next? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-tom-happy-days-bosley-dead-at-83/557680/11 "2010-10-19T18:50:14Z")
At least the thread title wasn’t ‘Happy Days! Tom Bosley Dead!’ ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-tom-happy-days-bosley-dead-at-83/557680/12 "2010-10-19T19:03:20Z")
They’re dropping like flies! I remember him from “Murder, She Wrote” ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-tom-happy-days-bosley-dead-at-83/557680/13 "2010-10-19T19:35:43Z")
I remember him not only from Happy Days, but also as a spokesman for Glad trash bags, and as the host of Radio Adventure Theater (a for-kids offshoot of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater in the 70s). ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-tom-happy-days-bosley-dead-at-83/557680/14 "2010-10-19T19:46:29Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Aw, shit. First Mrs. Cleaver, now Mr. C. Who’s next? Uh oh, in 30 minutes Marcus Welby and in an hour Lucas McCain. It was fun, Mr. C. Thanks for setting the bar for some real dads to aspire to. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-tom-happy-days-bosley-dead-at-83/557680/15 "2010-10-19T19:52:32Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > They’re dropping like flies! I remember him from “Murder, She Wrote” Everywhere the old woman goes, people die! RIP, Mr C. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-tom-happy-days-bosley-dead-at-83/557680/16 "2010-10-19T19:55:54Z")
I loved Happy Days but my other childhood memory of him was “That’s Hollywood”. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-tom-happy-days-bosley-dead-at-83/557680/17 "2010-10-19T20:20:33Z")
My favorite thing he ever said on Happy Days: “That’s Daddy Bucko to you!” RIP ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-tom-happy-days-bosley-dead-at-83/557680/18 "2010-10-19T22:31:12Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Aw, shit. First Mrs. Cleaver, now Mr. C. Who’s next? 50’s TV mom 70’s TV dad 90’s TV something must be next. Last name ending with C… Oh man, I hope Mr & Mrs Costanza are okay ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-tom-happy-days-bosley-dead-at-83/557680/19 "2010-10-19T22:35:15Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > 50’s TV mom > 70’s TV dad > 90’s TV something must be next. Last name ending with C… Oh man, I hope Mr & Mrs Costanza are okay Please not Doris Roberts, please not Doris Roberts… (Take Patricia Heaton if you have to but I like Doris). ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-tom-happy-days-bosley-dead-at-83/557680/20 "2010-10-20T01:24:15Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > 50’s TV mom > 70’s TV dad > 90’s TV something must be next. Last name ending with C… Oh man, I hope Mr & Mrs Costanza are okay Bad luck for Frasier Crane, his father and brother. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-tom-happy-days-bosley-dead-at-83/557680.md?page=2)