Bill Daily, the friendly TV actor UN agency asterisked as Major Roger Healey in “I Dream of Jeannie” similarly as on “The Bob Newhart Show,” died Sept. four in capital of New Mexico, N.M., his son J. patron saint Daily confirmed. He was 91.
“He precious each sunset, he precious each meal — he simply set to be happy regarding everything,” aforesaid his son.
The old Land of Enchantment resident was a staple on series of the Nineteen Sixties through Eighties, notably as Bob Newhart’s daffy neighbor, airline pilot Howard Borden, on CBS’ “The Bob Newhart Show” broadcast from 1972 to 1978. within the Eighties, he appeared as specialist Dr. Larry Dykstra on NBC’s “ALF.”
Newhart remembered his co-star from their time period within the Chicago comedy scene within the Fifties.
“I known as him our bullpen man. Whenever we tend to were having bother with a script on the show, we’d have Bill create associate degree look,” Newhart aforesaid. “In recent years we tend to had hoped to possess Bill be a neighborhood of ‘The Bob Newhart Show’ tributes at the TV Academy however by then he was not traveling. He was one in every of the foremost positive folks I ever knew and we’ll dearly miss him.”
On “I Dream of Jeannie,” he co-starred with Larry Hagman and Barbara Eden on all 5 seasons of the NBC broadcast as U.S. Army Captain so Major Healey, the most effective friend and fellow cosmonaut to Hagman, UN agency at one purpose summons Jeannie by mistake and shortly becomes her new master.
Barbara Eden tweeted, “Our favorite zany cosmonaut has passed.”
In 1980, Daily shortly had his own TV series, “Small ,” however it lasted solely 3 months. A old magic fan, he hosted many magic specials.
His different TV appearances enclosed “Bewitched,” “Love Boat,” “The Madonna Tyler Moore Show,” and “Love, yank vogue,” additionally as revenant roles within the Eighties on “Aloha Paradise” and “Starting from Scratch.”
He came for many “I Dream of Jeannie” and “The Bob Newhart Show” reunion specials within the Eighties and ’90s. Daily additionally served as director of the American state Film Commission within the late Eighties.
Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Daily was raised in Chicago and commenced out doing stand-up and saying at a Chicago TV station, once he initial met Newhart.
He is survived by his son J. Apostle Daily, a key grip for motion footage.
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