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Tom Bosley, the patient, understanding father on television's long-running "Happy Days," has died.

Barbara Billingsley, who played the charming housewife and mom June Cleaver in the television show "Leave it to Beaver," has died at age 94, a family spokeswoman said Saturday.

Ms. McClanahan's manager said that the actress died on Thursday morning of a stroke.

The actress who gave strong, Southern women a good name in the television series, later enjoyed success as a cabaret singer.

John Forsythe, the suave actor with the silvery hair and mellifluous voice who was familiar to millions of TV viewers for starring roles in the popular television series "Bachelor Father," "Charlie's Angels" and "Dynasty," died Thursday.

Robert Culp, the actor who rose to fame as secret agent Kelly Robinson on the groundbreaking 1960s TV series "I Spy" and later played Ray Romano's father-in-law on "Everybody Loves Raymond," has died. He was 79. Actor Robert Culp died after falling and hitting his head in a Los Angeles park Wednesday, his publicist said.

Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85....

According to a source close to the family, the situation "doesn't look good" and the parents have been notified.

A spokesman for The Discovery Channel says the captain of the "Deadliest Catch" fishing vessel Cornelia Marie has died. Capt. Phil Harris suffered what his family described as a massive stroke on Jan. 29 while the boat was in port at St. Paul Island, Alaska. He was flown to Anchorage for surgery.

An actor who appeared on the TV show "Boston Legal" has been killed in an automobile crash in Wisconsin. The Iowa County Sheriff's Department says Justin Mentell was killed when his Sport Utility Vehicle went down an embankment and hit two trees.