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- Peter Scolari, who appeared on the TV series “Newhart” and Girls," has died. His manager says Scolari died Friday morning in New York after fighting cancer for two years.
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CNN — Peter Scolari, a veteran actor who rose to fame alongside Tom Hanks on “Bosom Buddies,” died Friday morning. Scolari had cancer and had been ill for two years, his manager Ellen Lubin...
Oct 22, 2021 · Scolari, who also starred in Hanks’ films “That Thing You Do!” (1996) and “The Polar Express” (2004), died after battling cancer for two years, his spokeswoman, Ellen Lubin Sanitsky, told The...
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Oct 22, 2021 · Peter Scolari, a familiar face on “Bosom Buddies,” “Newhart,” “Girls” and other television shows and in Broadway, Off Broadway and regional theater productions, died on Friday in Manhattan. He...
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Scolari got his big break starring alongside Tom Hanks in the 1980 ABC sitcom “Bosom Buddies.” Featuring its two stars as young men who dressed as woman in order to live in an affordable women-only building, the sitcom often featured improvisation from Scolari and Hanks. Though it was popular with audiences, “Bosom Buddies” lagged after several sch...
Scolari had roles in movies including “Sorority Boys,” “The Polar Express,” and, most recently, 2020’s “Looks that Kill.” He was also a stage actor who played the Wizard of Oz in “Wicked” on Broadway. Other Broadway performances included Yogi Berra in “Bronx Bombers” as well as roles in “Sly Fox,” “Hairspray,” and “Lucky Guy.”
“In many ways it’s a new career — not as a situation-comedy actor, but as a single-camera actor in what turned out to be a young, hip, dangerous show. And there was a place for me there. Incredible. If we decline to become set in our ways, that’s good. But it doesn’t always feel good. It can be very challenging.” —from a 2016 interview for Variety
Oct 22, 2021 · Scolari died Friday morning in New York after fighting cancer for two years, according to Ellen Lubin Sanitsky, his manager.
Oct 22, 2021 · By Variety. Peter Scolari, who rose to stardom on the brilliant-but-canceled “Bosom Buddies” alongside Tom Hanks, died Friday morning at age 66 of cancer, after a two-year illness. His death...
Oct 22, 2021 · October 22, 2021 9:44am. Peter Scolari Emma McIntyre/Getty Images. Peter Scolari, who starred opposite lifelong friend Tom Hanks in the early 1980s sitcom Bosom Buddies, died Friday. He was...
