Jay Thomas, a comic and character actor whose credits include roles on "Cheers" and "Murphy Brown," has died after a battle with cancer, according to his publicist Tom Estey. Thomas was 69.
"Jay Thomas was one of the funniest and kindest men I have had the honor to call both client and friend for 25 years plus. He will be dearly missed by so many," Estey said in a statement to CNN.
In addition to his work on TV, many know Thomas from his annual holiday season appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman," where he'd retell what Letterman once called "the greatest talk show story of all time."
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I've just started watching Cheers from the beginning. Still a couple seasons away from Eddie's appearance, but I thought it was funny watching a popular TV character of a French-Canadian Bruins goalie at a time when former Flame Reggie Lemelin was a star with the Bruins. RIP.
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Jay Thomas, Dead at 69
