Tom Bosley Passes Away at 83

Happy Days star Tom Bosley has passed away in his home in Palm Springs. He was 83 years old.

A rep for Bosley reports that the actor "died of natural causes or specifically, from a brief battle with lung cancer."

Aside from his supporting role in Happy Days, Thomas Edward "Tom" Bosley appeared in Murder, She Wrote, and Father Dowling Mysteries, as well as the title role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fiorello!. Bosley also toured as Cap'n Andy in Harold Prince's 1994 revival of Show Boat.

He's most known to theatrical audiences for playing New York mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in Fiorello! for which he won a Tony in 1959 as well as creating the role of Maurice in BEAUTY & THE BEAST. 

His other Broadway credits include The Power and the Glory, The Beaux Strategem, Nowhere to Go But Up, A Murdered Among Us, Catch Me If You Can, The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N and his most recent appearance on Broadway as Herr Schultz in Cabaret opposite Neil Patrick Harris in 2002/2003. 

Mr. Bosley is survived by his wife Patricia Bosley, his brother Richard Bosley, his daughter Amy Baer, stepdaughters Kimberly diBonaventura and Jamie Van Meter and seven grandchildren.