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(AP) Tony Randall, the comic actor best known for playing fastidious photographer Felix Unger on "The Odd Couple," has died. He was 84.

Randall died in his sleep Monday night at NYU Medical Center of complications from a long illness, according to his publicity firm, Springer Associates. The actor developed pneumonia after undergoing heart bypass surgery in December.

He is survived by his wife, Heather Harlan Randall, who made him a father for the first time at age 77, and their two children, 7-year-old Julia Laurette and 5-year-old Jefferson Salvini.
You know, I was a big fan. I grew up with the Odd Couple. And I really loved his show Love, Sydney in the 80's, where he played a gay man who opens his home to a single mother and her daughter. The character he played was openly gay in the TV movie, and his sexuality was only implied on the actual sit-com, but was still a positive gay role model. He will be missed.