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    Jay Thomas, Actor on 'Murphy Brown' and 'Cheers,' Is Dead at 69

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    Jay Thomas, an actor and radio personality whose work on the television series “Murphy Brown” won him two Emmy Awards in the early 1990s, died on Thursday at his home in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 69.

    The cause was cancer, his agent, Don Buchwald, said.

    Mr. Thomas was a disc jockey in 1979 when he was cast in a recurring role on “Mork & Mindy,” the ABC sitcom about a space alien played by Robin Williams. Mr. Thomas played Remo DaVinci, co-owner of a deli, and appeared in dozens of episodes during the run of the show, which ended in 1982.

    After that, the work came fairly regularly, often in the form of smaller TV roles but also the occasional movie appearance, most notably in “Mr. Holland’s Opus” in 1995.

    Between “Mork & Mindy” and “Murphy Brown” his most prominent role was a recurring spot on “Cheers” in the 1980s as Eddie LeBec, an ice hockey player who was married to Carla Tortelli (Rhea Perlman), a waitress at the Boston bar of the show’s title...

    He is survived by his wife, Sally Michelson, whom he married in 1987, and their two children, Samuel and Jacob. In recent years he reunited with a son he had fathered in his 20s who was given up for adoption, the country singer J. T. Harding.

    “I met my biological mother, and she told me, ‘Your father is an actor, and he’s on ‘Cheers,’ ” Mr. Harding said during an appearance that he and Mr. Thomas made on “The View.” “So for about a week I thought Ted Danson was my father.”

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/a...n.html?mcubz=0

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    I remember him on Cheers

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    I remember him as a good actor with a wry, comedic side - Hope he knew Jesus.

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    Hilarious classic story he used to tell on Letterman every Christmas.



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    Hilarious classic story he used to tell on Letterman every Christmas.


    That was great!

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    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post
    That was great!
    Seriously hilarious.

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