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Jack Klugman, whose performance as the slovenly New York sportswriter Oscar Madison in the hit ABC series The Odd Couple won him two Emmys and made him a disheveled household name, has died. He was 90.His wife Peggy told KABC-TV in Los Angeles that the actor was home in Northridge when he died. No other details were immediately available.With his gruff voice and blunt manner, Klugman touched a chord as a sympathetic everyman character throughout his six-decade career. After The Odd Couple, Klugman went on to star as a medical examiner in the hit NBC series Quincy M.E.Klugman’s film roles were less numerous, but selective, including turns in as an earnest young jurist in 12 Angry Men (1957); as Jack Lemmon’s Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor in Days of Wine and Roses (1962); as Ali MacGraw’s nouveau-riche Jewish father in Goodbye, Columbus (1969); and as a gambler in the terrorist thriller Two-Minute Warning (1976).
LOS ANGELES – Jack Klugman, the prolific, craggy-faced character actor and regular guy who was loved by millions as the messy one in TV's "The Odd Couple" and the crime-fighting coroner in "Quincy, M.E.," died Monday, a son said. He was 90.Klugman, who lost his voice to throat cancer in the 1980s and trained himself to speak again, died with his wife at his side."He had a great life and he enjoyed every moment of it and he would encourage others to do the same," son Adam Klugman said.Adam Klugman said he was spending Christmas with his brother, David, and their families. Their father had been convalescing for some time but had apparently died suddenly and they were not sure of the exact cause.Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/12/24/legendary-actor-jack-klugman-dies-at-0/#ixzz2G1CmRFlq
If we don't find out what killed this man we could be dealing with an epidemic! </QuincyME>
