Peter Scolari, the prolific actor who rose to fame on the TV show “Bosom Buddies” with longtime friend Tom Hanks and was nominated for three Emmy Awards for his role on “Newhart,” died Friday. He was 66.
Scolari, who also starred in Hanks’ films “That Thing You Do!” and “The Polar Express” , died after battling cancer for two years, his spokeswoman, Ellen Lubin Sanitsky, told The Times. She did not specify what kind of cancer Scolari had.
The New York-bred actor got his start in theater and spent seven years at the prestigious Colonnades Theatre Lab alongside Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman and Jeff Goldblum.. He was a self-taught student of vaudeville, a professional juggler and an accomplished college athlete. Scolari was a busy actor on stage as well. He appeared on Broadway in “Hairspray,” “Sly Fox,” “Wicked,” “Magic/Bird,” “The True” — and alongside Hanks in “Lucky Guy” in 2013.
“We fought and fought and fought to get the drag element taken out of the show,” Scolari told The Times. “And we never won... The gimmick killed us. “It’s a distant second to me to talk about our professional relationship and what we do as actors to where we are as friends,” Scolari
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