I know he was just Hannah Horvath’s dad to most of you, but when I was a little kid, he was Tom Hanks’ horny, cross-dressing partner-in-retrospectively-creepy-crime on Bosom Buddies, and Julia Duffy’s nerdy husband on Newhart. He was never going to be a movie star like Hanks —Peter looked and acted a bit like the mutant offspring of Rick Moranis and David Hyde Pierce— but he had solid taste in projects, and remained relevant well into the 21st century.
Also, fuck cancer.
Peter Scolari, ‘Bosom Buddies’ and ‘Girls’ Actor, Dead at 66
(NOTE: You can tell Billy Joel was in dire financial straits in 1980, ’cause otherwise they would have never gotten the rights to use My Life as a theme song.)