Emmy-Winning 'Newhart' Comic Actor Tom Poston Dies at 85

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Emmy-Winning 'Newhart' Comic Actor Tom Poston Dies at 85

FOXNews.com - Emmy-Winning 'Newhart' Comic Actor Tom Poston Dies …- Celebrity Gossip | Entertainment News | Arts And Entertainment 05/02/2007 06:34 PM Emmy-Winning 'Newhart' Comic Actor Tom Poston Dies at 85 Tuesday , May 01, 2007 LOS ANGELES — ADVERTISEMENT Tom Poston, the tall, pasty-faced comic who found fame and fortune playing a clueless everyman on such hit television shows as "Newhart" and "Mork and Mindy," has died. He was 85. Poston, who was married to Suzanne Pleshette of "The Bob Newhart Show," died Monday night at home after a brief illness, a family representative, Tanner Gibson, said Tuesday. The nature of his illness was not disclosed. Poston's run as a comic bumbler began in the mid- 1950s with "The Steve Allen Show" after Allen plucked the character actor from the Broadway stage to join an ensemble of eccentrics he would conduct "man in the street" interviews with. Don Knotts was the shaky Mr. Morrison, Louis Nye was the suave, overconfident Gordon Hathaway and Poston's character was so unnerved by the television cameras that he couldn't remember who he was. He won an Emmy playing "The Man Who Can't Remember His Name." But when Allen moved the show from New York to Los Angeles in 1959, Poston stayed behind. "Hollywood's not for me right now; I'm a Broadway cat," he told a reporter at the time. When he did finally move west, he quickly began appearing in variety shows, sitcoms and films. SEARCH GO Click here for FOX News RSS Feeds Advertise on FOX News Channel, FOXNews.com and FOX News Radio Jobs at FOX News Channel. Internships At Fox News (Summer Application Deadline is March 15, 2007) Terms of use. Privacy Statement. For FOXNews.com comments write to [email protected]; For FOX News Channel comments write to [email protected] © Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Copyright 2007 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. All market data delayed 20 minutes. http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,269496,00.html Page 1 of 1.

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