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Tom Bosley has been enjoying a remarkable career in entertainment for over 50 years and has had great success in theatre, film and television. In 1959, Mr. Bosley was chosen by George Abbott to star in the Broadway musical Fiorello! for which he won the Tony Award. His motion picture debut was in 1962 when he landed a co-starring role opposite Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen in “Love with the Proper Stranger.”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Tom Bosley wants to show he still has it at 80. Last year, the actor best known for playing Richie Cunningham's father on "Happy Days" co-starred with Michael Learned in a seven-month national tour of "On Golden Pond."
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Tom Bosley, who's been ranked in the top 10 TV dads of all-time, thanks to his Howard Cunningham role on "Happy Days," is having a bittersweet holiday season this year, at best. He and his wife of 27 years are packing up their long-time Beverly Hills home and moving out to the desert community of Rancho Mirage.
While growing up in Chicago, Tom Bosley dreamed of becoming the star left-fielder for the Cubs. As it turned out, the closest Bosley got to organized athletics was a sportscasting class at DePauw University. After additional training at the Radio Institute of Chicago and two years' practical experience in various dramatic radio programs and stock companies, he left for New York in 1950. Five years of odd jobs and summer-theater stints later, he landed his first off-Broadway role, playing Dupont-Dufort in Jean Anouilh's Thieves' Carnival. Steadier work followed at the Arena Theatre in Washington, D.C.; then in 1959, Bosley landed the starring role in the Broadway musical Fiorello!, picking up a Tony Award, an ANTA Award, and the New York Drama Critics Award in the bargain. In 1963, he made his film bow as Natalie Wood's "safe and secure" suitor Anthony Colombo in Love With the Proper Stranger.
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Tom Bosley's career has spanned more than 50 years in theatre, movies and television. In 1959, Tom won a Tony for his role as Fiorello LaGuardia in the namesake musical, "Fiorello!" Bosley was so famous that in 1961 he obtained 300 votes to be elected mayor of New York without being on the ballot. In 1962, Tom acted in his first movie "Love with the Proper Stranger", with Steve McQueen and Natalie Wood; he won the "International Laurel Award" for his performance. He ... acted in "The World of Henry Orient," in "Divorce American Style," and performed in episodes of classics such as "Bonanza" and "Bewitched." His 11-year role as Howard Cunningham on "Happy Days" began in 1974, and he was nominated twice for an Emmy. After "Happy Days", Tom Bosley co-starred in "Murder She Wrote", as Sheriff Amos Tupper.
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WASHINGTON, DC—Beloved veteran actor Tom Bosley, star of Happy Days and Father Dowling Mysteries, was appointed U.S. Secretary of Naps Tuesday. "I think the American people can be comfortable with Mr. Bosley's solid record on napping," President Clinton said. "He will serve our nation's napping interests well." Bosley's platform includes a 20-minute snooze at his desk during daylight hours, an occasional dozing-off toward the end of the day, and prolonged weekend lie-downs at home in the early evening hours, when, Bosley said, "I tend to get really sleepy."
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