Hot! Don Grady

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) Don Grady , exactly who had been considered one of television's almost all much loved big siblings since Robbie Douglas on the long-running 1960s reach "My Three Sons," perished Wednesday. He ended up being 68.

His "My Three Sons" co-star Barry Livingston, whom enjoyed most youthful brother Ernie, established Grady's dying in order to The Associated Press. Livingston stated Grady had been being affected by cancer in addition to getting hospice care from his house in Thousand Oaks, Calif. But the complete cause in addition to spot regarding passing away weren't immediately clear.

"It's your earliest cliche on the earth when TV siblings start mentioning each other like biological brothers, but they seemed to be your oldest, along with another person I viewed as long as plus mastered at a great deal concerning life," Livingston said.

Born in San Diego seeing that Don Louis Agrati, Grady had a summary stint singing and dance with "The Mickey Mouse Club" starting up with age 13.

But he or she had been most widely known by far and away united involving Fred MacMurray's "My Three Sons" about the series in which played on ABC plus later CBS from 1960 that will 1972.

The favorite show, that showcased MacMurray as a widowed aeronautical professional striving in order to improve some older boys, was one of many longest running family members sitcoms of all time having 380 episodes.

In the actual show's previous many years Douglas had been actually the middle brother, having Tim Considine enjoying the actual oldest, Mike, and Stanley Livingston trying to play this youngest, Chip. When Considine departed, Barry Livingston grew to be the acquired "third" son, as well as Grady evolved into this cool, rewarding and confident eldest close friend much of America adored.

A music prodigy from a beginning age, Grady been seen in with a band, that Greefs, inside series, in addition to with actual gamed drums pertaining to The Yellow Balloon, who seem to had a small make that has a self-titled songs with 1967.

He designed some wedding guest appearances on TV series within the 1970s and 1980s, but toiled primarily as a artist and composer, crafting the particular theme for "The Phil Donahue Show" plus new music to the Blake Edwards picture "Switch" and the popular Las Vegas exhibit "EFX," a showcase intended for "Phantom with the Opera" star Michael Crawford.

"The one true through-line in his or her your life has been music," Livingston said. "I would certainly think Don would love that they are valued for his / her great new music up to a teen idol along with television icon."