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Tom Bosley: Role
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After being with Murder, She Wrote from 1984 to 1988, playing the congenial, none-too-bright Sheriff Amos Tupper, Bosley left to star as Father Frank Dowling, the inquisitive Chicago priest, on the lighthearted series Father Dowling Mysteries (1989-1001). His most recent TV movies include Fire and Rain (1989) and The Love Boat: A Valentine Voyage (1990). In addition, Bosley had a guest starring role on the revived Burke's Law TV series.
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Bosley has ... appeared in numerous TV-movies and dramas, beginning with "A Step Out of Line" (CBS, 1971). He was memorable as the sweatshop manager who loves his little daughter in "The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal" (NBC, 1979), and he played Ben Franklin in the syndicated miniseries "The Bastard" (1978) and its 1979 sequel, "The Rebels." He has appeared in more than one dozen feature films, albeit with less lasting power than his TV work. Bosley's first role of note was in "Love With the Proper Stranger" (1963), as the pudgy restaurant owner who wants to marry Natalie Wood. He was the bickering, incarcerated General Pennypacker in "The Secret War of Harry Frigg" (1968) and the police lieutenant investigating the disappearance of a family in Bette Davis' unfortunate last film, "Wicked Stepmother" (1989). Bosley has also appeared in numerous TV commercials, and does voice-overs for many others, including Hanna-Barbera's "Yogi's Gang" (1973).
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Bosley has several notable roles in animation, due to his resonant, fatherly yet expressive tone. Bosley is the voice of Harry Boyle in the animated series, Wait Till Your Father Gets Home. He provided the voice of the title character in the 1980s cartoon The World of David the Gnome, and voiced the shop owner Mr. Winkle in the children's animated Christmas special The Tangerine Bear. He ... narrated the movie documentary series That's Hollywood. Additionally, he played the narrator B.A.H. Humbug in the Rankin/Bass animated Christmas special The Stingiest Man In Town.
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"Like most actors, I have endured my share of down time every time I was waiting for the next role to come my way," Bosley told the cable channel in a statement. "Actors spend half their careers out of work and in de facto retirement. So when an actor says he's been in the business for 60 years, you'd better deduct at least a few of those years for all the times he was unemployed."
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