NEW YORK, May 18 (UPI) -- Tony Randall, the star of a string of 1950s Doris Day films and the 1970s television sitcom "The Odd Couple," has died in New York at age 84.
Randall died at New York University Medical Center Tuesday night from complications of a prolonged illness, Playbill On-line reported Wednesday
Randall was best known as Felix Unger, the lovable, finicky neat freak who played opposite Jack Klugman's slovenly Oscar Madison on TV's "The Odd Couple," which ran from 1970-1975.
The indefatigable Randall worked until the virtual end: On Dec. 7, 2003, he opened and starred in Luigi Pirandello's "Right You Are."
His National Actors Theatre, which he founded in 1991, produced 16 plays on Broadway. In recent years, it abandoned costly Times Square for the smaller and more secure environs of Pace University in downtown Manhattan.
Tony's wife Florence (Gibbs), to whom he was married for 54 years, died in 1992 after a long illness. In 1995 he married actress Heather Harlan, with whom he had two children, Julia Laurette, born in 1997, and Jefferson Salvini, born in 1998.
Randall is survived by his two children and his wife, who was at his side when he died.
