Tom Bosley Biography

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Tom Bosley won a Tony Award in 1958 for the lead role as New York mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in the Broadway musical Fiorello!. But Bosley is more often remembered for his role on the long-running TV show Happy Days (1974-1984). Bosley played Howard, the calm, good-natured father to goofy teen Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard). Bosley also starred as a mystery-solving priest in Father Dowling Mysteries (1987-1991) and played Sheriff Amos Tupper of Cabot Cove on another mystery series, Murder, She Wrote, from 1984-88. Bosley is an experienced voice actor, known mostly for his parts in the cartoons Wait Till Your Father Gets Home and David the Gnome.

Bosley appears with Adrienne Barbeau and Ricardo Montalban in our loop These Actors Do Cartoon Voices.