David Doyle (actor)

David Fitzgerald Doyle (December 1, 1929 – February 26, 1997) was an American actor.

Biography

Early life

Doyle was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Mary Ruth (née Fitzgerald) and Lewis Raymond Doyle, an attorney. His maternal grandfather, John Fitzgerald, was a prominent railroad builder and banker in Nebraska. He graduated from Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, in 1947.

Career

He 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 (1976–81).

He lent his distinctive raspy voice to the character Grandpa Lou Pickles on the Nickelodeon animated television series Rugrats until his death. Since then, Joe Alaskey assumed the role of Grandpa Lou. Doyle made a number of appearances as a guest on the game show Match Game in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He appeared on one week of Password Plus in 1980, three weeks of Super Password, and on Tattletales with his wife Anne in 1982.

Doyle was a stage actor, as well. He played Orgon in the 1964 premier of Richard Wilbur's translation of Tartuffe at the Fred Miller Theater in Milwaukee. His sister Mary played the fulminate maid, Dorisse, in the same production.

Personal life

Doyle was married twice. His first wife predeceased him. His sister, Mary, who died from lung cancer in 1995, was a stage actress.

Doyle died in Los Angeles, California, of a heart attack on February 26, 1997, aged 67, and was cremated.

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Other 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		Uncredited Role
1970	Pigeons	Mr. Seigbert	Uncredited Role
	Loving	Will
1971	Lady Liberty	O'Henry
	The Pursuit of Happiness	James Moran
	A New Leaf	Mel
	Making It	Fanning
	Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name?	Boulting
1972	Parades	Captain Jinks
1974	Ginger in the Morning	Fred
1976	Vigilante Force	Homer Arno
1978	My Boys Are Good Boys	Harry Klinger
	Capricorn One	Walter Loughlin
	The Comeback (film)	Webster Jones
1980	The Line	Captain Jinks
1988	Salome's Last Dance	A. Nubin
1989	Murphy's Laws of Golf	Roscoe	Short film
1990	Love or Money	Arthur Reed
	Wings of Fame
1993	The Punk	Roger Rabbit
1996	The Adventures of Pinocchio	Pepe the Cricket	Voice Role
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
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	Episode: A Star is Born in the Bronx Episode: The Loves of Sylvia Schnauser
1963	Perry Mason	Dwight Garret (Defendant)	Episode: The Case of the Elusive Element S6/Ep24
1964	The Defenders		Episode: The Seven Hundred Year Old Gang Part 1 Episode: The Seven Hundred Year Old Gang Part 2
1964, 1965	The Patty Duke Show	Mr. Harrison Mr. Lane	Episode: The Drop Out Episode: Patty the Folk Singer
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		ABC TV-Movie
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	Episode: The Replacement Episode: Bernie Did It Episode: The Telethon Episode: People's Choice
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	NBC TV-Movie/Unsold TV-Pilot
	Police Story	Kurt Mueller	NBC TV-Movie/TV-Pilot
	Adam's Rib	Dubray	Episode: Danish Pastry
	Love, American Style		Segment: Love and the Golden Memory
	Money to Burn	Warden Caulfield	ABC TV-Movie
	Love Story	Ross	Episode: Mirabelle's Summer
	Blood Sport	Mr. Schmidt	ABC TV-Movie
	Miracle on 34th Street	R.H. Macy	CBS TV-Movie
1974	Family Theatre: Married is Better		NBC TV-Special
	All in the Family	Jim Sanders	Episode: Et tu, Archie
	Petrocelli	Caswell Turner	Episode: Music to Die By
	The Stranger Within	Bob	ABC TV-Movie
	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	Episode: Glamour Boy Episode: Vice: 24 Hours
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	ABC TV-Movie/Unsold TV-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	ABC TV-Movie
1976–1981	Charlie's Angels	John Bosley	Emmy Awards (nominated) Golden Globe Awards (nominated)
1977	ABC Weekend Special	Uncle Ulysses	Episode: Homer and the Wacky Doughnut Machine
	Black Market Baby	Joseph Carmino	ABC TV-Movie
1978	Wild and Wooly	Teddy Roosevelt	ABC TV-Movie
1978–1983	Fantasy Island	Ernie Miller Fred Forbush Sam Woolf/Sancho Panza Herbert Solomon	Episode: King For a Day/Instant Family Episode: Hit Man/The Swimmer Episode: The Don Quixote/Sex Symbol Episode: Naughty Marietta/The Winning Ticket
1978–1985	The Love Boat	Alvin Cliff	Episode: Man Who Loved Women... Episode: Secretary to the Stars... Episode: Same Wavelength... Episode: Vicki's Gentleman Caller...
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	NBC TV-Movie
	The Invisible Woman	Neil Gilmore	NBC TV-Movie/Unsold TV-Pilot
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 Role Episode: A Clean Sweep Episode: A Moving Experience Episode: Foofur Falls in Love (Noted for wrongfully voicing Harvey) Episode: Hot Over the Collar Episode: A Job-Hunting We will go Episode: A Royal Pain Episode: Nothing to Sneeze at Episode: This Little Piggy's on TV Episode: Mad Dogs and Englishmen Episode: Boot Camp Blues Episode: What Price Fleadom Episode: Annabell goes Punk Episode: Weekend in the Condo Episode: Louis sees the Light Episode: Annabell gets Framed Episode: Scary Harry
1986–1987	General Hospital	Ted Holmes
1987	Starman	Artemis Guinness	Episode: Grifters
	Sweet Surrender	Frank Macklin
1988	Maybe Baby	Pete	NBC TV-Movie
1989	Ghost Writer	Herb Baxter	TV-Movie
	Out of This World	Star the Dog	Voice Role Episode: Star Dog
	Dink, the Little Dinosaur	Additional Voices	Voice Role
1990	TaleSpin	Sheriff Gomer Cleghorn	Voice Role
	Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again	Mr. Weatherbee	NBC TV-Movie
1991	They Do It With Mirrors	Neville	A&E Network TV-Movie
1991–1997	Rugrats	Louis 'Grandpa' Pickles	Voice Role
1993	Bonkers	W.W. Whacky	Voice Role Episode: Gone Bonkers
	Sonic the Hedgehog	Additional Voices	Voice Role
1994	Beethoven	Additional Voices	Voice Role
1995	What-a-Mess	Additional Voices	Voice Role
1996	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Dean	Episode: Simisola
	Road Rovers	Professor Hubert	Voice Role 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 Role Episode: The Human Factor
	Quack Pack	Additional Voices	Voice Role Episode: The Unusual Suspects
1997	The Blues Brothers Animated Series	Vet	Voice Role Episode: Strange Death of Betty Smythe
	Sunset Beach	Passenger	Episode: 1.1
	What the Deaf Man Heard		Uncredited Role TV-Movie

External links

• David Doyle at the Internet Movie Database
• David Doyle at the Internet Broadway Database