Popular Character Actor Jack Riley dies (Mr Carlin on Bob Newhart Show)

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http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jack-riley-20160819-snap-story.html



Jack Riley, who played a counseling client on "The Bob Newhart Show" in the 1970s and also voiced a character on Nickelodeon's animated "Rugrats," died Friday. The 80-year-old actor died in Los Angeles, according to his representative, Paul Doherty.

Besides portraying grumpy, self-absorbed Elliot Carlin on “The Bob Newhart Show” and providing the voice for absent-minded dad Stu Pickles on "Rugrats" and its spinoff, "All Grown Up!," Riley appeared in the Mel Brooks films "History of the World: Part I," ''High Anxiety" and "Spaceballs" among his more than 150 credits over a career spanning five decades,

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He's been in so many things and yet we hardly knew his name. Cross gently, Jack!

(On edit: My original source seemed to be anti-Clinton since all their click-bait was anti-Clinton, so I changed the content of my post)

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1. For awhile back then, he was in EVERYTHING. Or so it seemed.

He worked A LOT.

I loved Mr. Carlin on the "The Bob Newhart Show." He was wonderful!