Happy Days Dad Tom Bosley Dies
Posted October 19, 2010 3:50 pm.
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Tom Bosley, who played one of television’s most beloved dads on Happy Days, has died.
Bosley, who was battling lung cancer, passed away from heart failure his agent revealed. He was 83.
Happy Days debuted in 1974 and ran for 11 seasons.
Bosley went on to star as Sheriff Amos Tucker in a recurring role on the popular television show, ‘Murder, She Wrote.’
He also played a priest who solved crimes in ‘The Father Dowling Mysteries’.
Bosley married dancer Jean Eliot in 1962 and the couple had one child, Amy.
Eliot died in 1978. Two years later Bosley married actress-producer Patricia Carr.
