David Doyle (actor)
David Fitzgerald Doyle (December 1, 1929 – February 26, 1997)[1] was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of John Bosley on the 1970s TV series Charlie's Angels. Doyle and Jaclyn Smith were the only actors to appear in every episode of the show. Doyle also became known later as the voice of Grandpa Lou on the Nicktoon Rugrats.
David Doyle | |
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| Born | David Fitzgerald Doyle December 1, 1929[1] Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Died | February 26, 1997 (aged 67) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1959–1997 |
| Spouses | Rachael Doyle
(m. 1956; died 1968)Anne Nathan Doyle (m. 1969) |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Mary Doyle (sister) |
Early life
Doyle graduated from Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1947.[2]
His maternal grandfather, John Fitzgerald, was a prominent railroad builder and banker in Nebraska.[3] His younger sister, Mary (1931–1995), was a stage actress, who died from lung cancer aged 63.[4]
Career
Doyle is best remembered for his role as detective John Bosley on the television series Charlie's Angels, one of only two actors (the other being original angel Jaclyn Smith) to appear in all 110 episodes of the series (1976–1981).[5]
Doyle made a number of appearances as a guest on the game show Match Game from 1977 to 1982. He appeared on one week of Password Plus in 1980, three weeks of Super Password, and on Tattletales with his wife Anne in 1982.
He voiced Grandpa Lou Pickles on the Nickelodeon animated series Rugrats from 1991 until his death, after which he was replaced by Joe Alaskey.[6][7]
Doyle was also a stage actor. He played Orgon in the 1964 premiere of Richard Wilbur's translation of Tartuffe at the Fred Miller Theater in Milwaukee. His sister Mary played the maid, Dorine, in the same production. His New York stage credits include Beg, Borrow or Steal, Something About a Soldier, Here's Love, I Was Dancing, and a revival of South Pacific.[8]
Personal life
Doyle was married twice. In 1956 he married his first wife, Rachael, with whom he had a daughter, Leah (born 1961). Rachael died in 1968 after falling from a staircase.[9] The next year, while in a revival of the play South Pacific, Doyle met Anne Nathan, a singer-dancer, and they married a short time later.[5]
Death
Doyle died in Los Angeles, California, of a heart attack on February 26, 1997, at age 67.[3][10]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Happy Anniversary | Hotel Earle Desk Clerk | |
| 1963 | Act One | Oliver Fisher | |
| 1967 | The Tiger Makes Out | Housing Clerk | |
| 1968 | No Way to Treat a Lady | Lieutenant Dawson | |
| Coogan's Bluff | Pushie, Tavern Owner | ||
| Paper Lion | Oscar | ||
| 1969 | The April Fools | Orlow P. Walters | |
| Some Kind of a Nut | Larry - Bank Teller | ||
| 1970 | Loving | Will | |
| Pigeons | Mr. Seigbert | Uncredited | |
| 1971 | The Pursuit of Happiness | James Moran | |
| A New Leaf | Mel | ||
| Making It | Fanning | ||
| Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name? | Roger Boulting | ||
| Lady Liberty | O'Henry | ||
| 1972 | Parades | Captain Jinks | |
| 1974 | Ginger in the Morning | Fred | |
| 1976 | Vigilante Force | Homer Arno | |
| 1977 | Capricorn One | Walter Loughlin | |
| 1978 | The Comeback | Webster Jones | |
| My Boys Are Good Boys | Harry Klinger | ||
| 1980 | The Line | Captain Jinks | |
| 1988 | Salome's Last Dance | A. Nubin | |
| 1989 | Ghost Writer | Herb Baxter | |
| Murphy's Laws of Golf | Roscoe | Short | |
| 1990 | Love or Money | Arthur Reed | |
| Wings of Fame | |||
| 1993 | The Punk | Roger Rabbit | |
| 1996 | The Adventures of Pinocchio | Pepe the Cricket (voice) |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959–1961 | The Art Carney Special | Self | 2 episodes |
| 1961 | Naked City | Dan Moore | Episode: "Murder Is a Face I Know" |
| 1962 | General Electric Theater | Episode: "Acres and Pains" | |
| 1962–1963 | Car 54, Where Are You? | Mr. Dutton | 2 episodes |
| 1963 | Perry Mason | Dwight Garret (Defendant) | Episode: "The Case of the Elusive Element" |
| 1964 | The Defenders | Episodes: "The Seven Hundred Year Old Gang: Parts 1 and 2" | |
| 1964–1965 | The Patty Duke Show | Mr. Harrison / Mr. Lane | 2 episodes |
| 1965 | For the People | Sweet William | Episode: "Dangerous to the Public Peace and Safety" |
| The Trials of O'Brien | Murray | Episode: "A Gaggle of Girls" | |
| 1968 | Kiss Me Kate | Television film | |
| 1970 | The Storefront Lawyers | Cogweiler | Episode: "This is Jerry, See Jerry Run" |
| 1971 | That Girl | Albert Berg | Episode: "That King" |
| Funny Face | DeHaven | Episode: "What's in a Mouth" | |
| Cade's County | Dr. Geis | Episode: "A Gun For Billy" | |
| The Doris Day Show | Warden McPherson | Episode: "The Wings of an Angel" | |
| 1971–1972 | The New Dick Van Dyke Show | Ted Atwater | 4 episodes |
| 1972 | Hawaii Five-O | Hard Hat | Episode: "Follow the White Brick Road" |
| Bridget Loves Bernie | Walt Fitzgerald | ||
| 1973 | Banacek | Elliot | Episode: "Ten Thousand Dollars a Page" |
| Incident on a Dark Street | Luke Burgess | Television film/Unsold pilot | |
| Police Story | Kurt Mueller | Television film / pilot | |
| Adam's Rib | Dubray | Episode: "Danish Pastry" | |
| Love, American Style | Segment: "Love and the Golden Memory" | ||
| Money to Burn | Warden Caulfield | Television film | |
| Love Story | Ross | Episode: "Mirabelle's Summer" | |
| Blood Sport | Mr. Schmidt | Television film | |
| Miracle on 34th Street | R.H. Macy | Television film | |
| 1974 | Family Theatre: Married is Better | Television special | |
| All in the Family | Jim Sanders | Episode: "Et tu, Archie" | |
| Petrocelli | Caswell Turner | Episode: "Music to Die By" | |
| The Stranger Within | Bob | Television film | |
| Kolchak: The Night Stalker | Cardinale | Episode: "Firefall" | |
| Kojak | Sgt. Harry Sumar | Episode: "The Best War in Town" | |
| 1974–1975 | Police Story | Harry Dunnhill / Ralph Driscoll | 2 episodes |
| 1975 | Sanford and Son | Clancy Fitzgerald | Episode: "Golden Boy" |
| Karen | Blakemore | Episode: "A Day in the Life" | |
| The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant | Dr. Atkinson | Television film/Unsold pilot | |
| Ellery Queen | Don Becker | Episode: "The Adventures of Auld Lang Syne" | |
| Barney Miller | Emil Ditka | Episode: "Ambush" | |
| McCoy | Episode: "Bless the Big Fish" | ||
| 1976 | Crackle of Death | Cardinale | Television film |
| 1976–1981 | Charlie's Angels | John Bosley | 110 episodes Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (1977) Nominated—Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor – Television Series (1980) |
| 1977 | ABC Weekend Special | Uncle Ulysses | Episode: "Homer and the Wacky Doughnut Machine" |
| Black Market Baby | Joseph Carmino | Television film | |
| 1978 | Wild and Wooly | Teddy Roosevelt | Television film |
| 1978–1983 | Fantasy Island | Ernie Miller / Fred Forbush / Sam Woolf / Sancho Panza / Herbert Solomon | 4 episodes |
| 1978–1985 | The Love Boat | Alvin / Cliff | 4 episodes |
| 1981 | Hart to Hart | Jim Casey | Episode: "Hartland Express" |
| 1982 | The Blue and the Gray | Phineas Wade | CBS Miniseries |
| 1983 | Wait till Your Mother Gets Home! | Herman Ohme | Television film |
| The Invisible Woman | Neil Gillmore | Television film / Unsold pilot | |
| The Fall Guy | Crase | Episode: "Wheels" (S03E12) | |
| 1985 | Murder, She Wrote | Brad Lockwood | Episode: "Sudden Death" |
| 1986 | You Again? | Briggs | Episode: "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Traffic Lights" |
| New Love, American Style | Episode: "Love and the Lamborghini" | ||
| Foofur | Mel (voice) | ||
| 1986–1987 | General Hospital | Ted Holmes | |
| 1987 | Starman | Artemis Guinness | Episode: "Grifters" |
| Sweet Surrender | Frank Macklin | ||
| 1988 | Maybe Baby | Pete | Television film |
| 1989 | Ghost Writer | Herb Baxter | Television film |
| Out of This World | Star the Dog (voice) | Episode: "Star Dog" | |
| 1990 | TaleSpin | Sheriff Gomer Cleghorn (voice) | Episode: "Citizen Khan" |
| Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again | Mr. Weatherbee | Television film | |
| 1991 | They Do It With Mirrors | Neville | Television film |
| 1991–1997 | Rugrats | Grandpa Lou Pickles (voice) | |
| 1993 | Bonkers | W.W. Whacky (voice) | Episode: "Gone Bonkers" |
| Sonic the Hedgehog | Additional voices | ||
| 1994 | Beethoven | Police Officer Frank, Blind Shep, Old Man (voice) | Episode: "The Mighty Cone-Dog/Car Trouble" |
| 1995 | What-a-Mess | Additional voices | |
| 1996 | The Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Dean | Episode: "Simisola" |
| Road Rovers | Professor Hubert (voice) | Episode: "A Hair of the Dog That Bit You" | |
| Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman | Mike, guardian angel | Episode: "Swear to God, This Time We're Not Kidding" | |
| Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series | Sam Delaney (voice) | Episode: "The Human Factor" | |
| Quack Pack | Additional voices | Episode: "The Unusual Suspects" | |
| 1997 | The Blues Brothers Animated Series | Vet (voice) | Episode: "Strange Death of Betty Smythe" (posthumous) |
| Sunset Beach | Passenger | Episode: 1.1 (posthumous) | |
| What the Deaf Man Heard | Television film (posthumous) |
References
- Hayward, Anthony (March 3, 1997). "Obituary: David Doyle". The Independent. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
- "Campion Graduate Notables". Campion High School. Archived from the original on September 3, 2013. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
- Oliver, Myrna (March 1, 1997). "David Doyle; Actor on 'Charlie's Angels'". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on February 26, 2020. Retrieved February 26, 2020.
- "Mary Doyle, Actress, 63". The New York Times. June 10, 1995.
- Reilly, Sue (August 15, 1977). "Farewell, Farrah". People. 8 (7). Retrieved February 26, 2020.
- Melle, Megan O'Neill (November 8, 2019). "Take a Trip Down Memory Lane With a Look Back at Every Charlie's Angels Star Through the Years". Parade. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- Petski, Denise (February 4, 2016). "Joe Alaskey Dies: Latter-Day Voice Of Bugs Bunny & Daffy Duck During Long Career Was 63". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
- Willis, John; Lynch, Tom, eds. (1999). "David Doyle". John Willis Theatre World 1996-1997 Season Volume 53. Applause Theatre Book Publishers. p. 258. ISBN 1-55783-343-5. OCLC 42465014. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
- Reilly, Sue (August 15, 1977). "Farewell, Farrah". people.com.
- "'Charlie's Angels' Actor Dies of Heart Attack at 67". Deseret News. March 2, 1997. Archived from the original on January 11, 2014. Retrieved January 13, 2014.
External links
- David Doyle at IMDb
- David Doyle at the Internet Broadway Database
- David Doyle at AllMovie