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Jack Klugman, Odd Couple and Quincy, M.E. Star, Dies

Originally posted 12/24/2012 07:35PM

Jack Klugman, The Odd Couple and Quincy, M.E. star beloved by TV, movie and theater audiences for five decades, died in Los Angeles on Monday, one of his sons told the Associated Press. He was 90.

"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 of his father, who had lost his voice to throat cancer in 1980 and then taught himself to speak again through breath control.

With Tony Randall on ABC's adaptation of the smash Neil Simon play and movie of the '60s, Klugman played sloppy Oscar Madison from 1970 to 1975 to Randall's Felix Unger, and though they really were an odd couple, offscreen they were adoring friends. Randall died in 2004.

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'Fussy Felix' Actor Tony Randall, 84, Dies

Originally posted 05/18/2004 10:00AM

Tony Randall, 84, the actor perhaps best known as the fussy Felix Unger on the '70s ABC sitcom The Odd Couple, and later as David Letterman's amusing but infrequent drop-in guest on Late Show, died in his sleep at New York University Medical Center in Manhattan Monday night, according to a statement from his publicist.

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