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"Longtime Boston television personality and entertainer Frank Avruch, who was the star of the popular children's TV program "Bozo the Clown," has died. He was 89.
Avruch died Tuesday at his Boston home from heart disease, his family said in a statement to WCVB-TV .
Avruch played Bozo the Clown from 1959 to 1970, a clown character particularly popular in the U.S. in the 1960s because of widespread franchising in television. Avruch became the first nationally-syndicated Bozo the Clown.
"He had a heart of gold," manager Stuart Hersh told The Associated Press on Wednesday, "He brought the Bozo the Clown character to life better than anyone else's portrayal of Bozo the Clown."
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/tv-personality-playing-bozo-clown-dies-89-53924475
Don't be sad though. His spirit, and hair, live on in the White House.
GWC58
(2,678 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,391 posts)On edit: I apologize if I offend anyone. I have uncharacteristically had a little to drink tonight.
Bradshaw3
(7,541 posts)"A little seltzer down his pants"
oasis
(49,454 posts)Of course, Bozo the Clown was famous in his own right. May he rest in peace.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)a cross between the Chicago WGN Bozo (Bob Bell), who had a rapsy voice and chain smoked and a Portland Oregon religious clown named Rusty.
hunter
(38,340 posts)I remember thinking maybe older kids did.
But I still don't understand clowns.
Wikipedia says he was played by Vance Colvig then. He may have been a friend or acquaintance of my grandma.
Colvig died of lung cancer in 1967 but before he did he became an activist supporting mandatory warning labels on cigarette packages.
sinkingfeeling
(51,490 posts)Mendocino
(7,520 posts)They taste funny.