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Tom Bosley

American actor

1927 – 2010aged 83

Tom Bosley played the steady, understanding father Howard Cunningham across a full decade of Happy Days, becoming the show's emotional center even as it made stars of the actors playing his children; he had earlier won a Tony Award originating the role of New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia in the Broadway musical Fiorello!, and later starred as an amateur-sleuth priest in the NBC/ABC series Father Dowling Mysteries.

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