NOT a happy day. Tom Bosley, Richie Cunningham’s lovable father on the hit ’70sand ’80s TV show Happy Days, died Today in Palm Springs of a staph infection, TMZ reports. He turned 83 on Oct 1st.
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Happy Days co-star Henry Winkler was deeply saddened by the news, telling an L.A. morning news radio show, “I’m in shock, I really am. I spoke to him just a few weeks ago, and he seemed to be getting his strength back.”

Bosley is survived by his second wife, Patricia Carr, and daughter, Amy. His death follows the passing of another iconic TV parent, Leave It to Beaver mom Barbara Billingsley, who died over the weekend.