Jack Riley, Bob Newhart Show's neurotic Elliot Carlin, has died.

[joeybee12]

Actor Jack Riley, who specialized in playing neurotic comic characters like psychologist patient Elliot Carlin on The Bob Newhart Show of the 1970s, died Friday. He was 81.

Riley, who also voiced Stu Pickles on the Rugrats cartoon and appeared in several Mel Brooks comedies, died in a Los Angeles hospital of pneumonia after a long illness, Paul Doherty at Cunningham Escott Slevin & Doherty told The Hollywood Reporter.

Riley appeared in the Brooks-directed films Silent Movie (1976), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World: Part I (1981) and Spaceballs (1987) and in two other movies that Brooks produced, Frances (1982) and To Be or Not to Be (1983).

A native of Cleveland, Riley was funny as the mean-spirited and morose Elliot in 49 episodes of CBS’ The Bob Newhart Show, which starred the comic as a psychologist working out of a Chicago high-rise. The series aired from 1972-78.



https://www.yahoo.com/tv/jack-riley-played-neurotic-eliot-carlin-bob-newhart-203412752.html

Sad, I remember him well. RIP

[Auggie]

1. He was great in The Bob Newhart Show

I'm still watching reruns ... and laughing

[livetohike]

2. RIP- loved his character in the Bob Newhart Show.

[PSPS]

3. He started out as an undredited waiter in Days of Wine and Roses

He was in over 150 productions from Gomer Pyle to I Dream of Jeannie to Laugh In to Hogan's Heroes to Columbo to The Rockford Files and many, many more. Theatrical appearances included Catch-22, The Long Goodbye, Spaceballs and Frances.

[niyad]

4. requiescat in pace

[GeorgeGist]

5. RIP, Good guy.