'Bosom Buddies' star Peter Scolari dead at 66
by WENN - World Entertainment News Network · TORONTO SUNEmmy winner Peter Scolari, who was best-known for starring opposite Tom Hanks in 1980s U.S. sitcom Bosom Buddies, has died after a two-year battle with cancer, aged 66.
The beloved actor died early on Friday, his manager Ellen Lubin Sanitsky announced.
Scolari’s 43-year show business career included a 2016 Emmy-winning role as the father of Lena Dunham’s character on HBO’s Girls and, most recently, he played Bishop Thomas Marx on the supernatural TV series Evil.
He also received three Emmy nominations as the boss of Bob Newhart’s character on American comedy Newhart, which ran from 1984 to 1990.
Peter reunited several times with his more famous Bosom Buddies co-star Hanks, and made a cameo in Tom’s 1996 directorial debut, That Thing You Do!
He also reteamed with Hanks for the 2013 Broadway production of Lucky Guy, a biographical drama about journalist Mike McAlary, which was written by Nora Ephron.
Scolari appeared on Broadway six times, beginning in 2003 with Hairspray.
His final New York stage appearance was in the 2018 Off-Broadway production of The True, also starring Edie Falco, Michael McKean, and his wife Tracy Shayne.