ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, March 1, 1997 TAG: 9703030057
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES
TYPE: NEWS OBIT
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
David Doyle, popular character actor easily recognized nationwide after his long-running role as John Bosley on ``Charlie's Angels,'' has died. He was 67.
Doyle, who lived in Los Angeles, died Wednesday night of a heart attack, his agent said Friday.
For the past several years, Doyle had been the voice of the grandfather in the Nickelodeon cartoon series ``Rug Rats.'' He had recently completed episodes of the network television series ``Lois and Clark'' and ``Sunset Beach.''
But the versatile actor was perhaps best remembered as Bosley, assistant to the mysterious ``Charlie,'' who relayed the boss' messages to three beautiful ``Angel'' detectives. Although the detectives changed, Doyle remained with the hit series for its entire run from 1976 to 1981.
Adept at either comedy or drama, Doyle found steady work in television and motion pictures throughout his long career. But he clearly preferred theater.
``It's where I began,'' he told the Los Angeles Times in 1993. ``And theater is a whole other experience. It's the immediacy an actor appreciates. You don't have to wait a year for the response. You get it instantly, either in silence or laughs. And you get to show the entire spectrum of a character, do the whole story. It's a full, complete quilt - much more fulfilling than piecework.''
Born in Omaha, Neb., Doyle began acting when he was 10 in a community theater production of ``Life With Father.'' After college, he honed his craft at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Va. In 1950, he joined the Neighborhood Playhouse troupe in New York.
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