...AND MORE SAD FAREWELLS
Some familiar favorites who excelled at their crafts take their final bows
GALE GORDON, 89, built a comic's career on harrumph and bluster, most memorably as Eve Arden's grumpy 1950s high school principal, Osgood Conklin, on Our Miss Brooks; as bedeviled Mr. Wilson on Dennis the Menace (1962-63); and as stuffed-shirt bank president Theodore J. Mooney opposite Lucille Ball on The Lucy Show (1962-1968). The son of actors, Gordon early on mastered a slow burn that became his TV trademark, but offscreen, writers and coworkers praised his hard-working perfectionism. When he succumbed to lung cancer on June 30 at a nursing home in Escondido, Calif., his death came just a few weeks after that of Virginia, his wife of 55 years.
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