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Comedic Actor Martin Mull Dies At 80 After Long Illness

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Comedic actor Martin Mull died at the age of 80 on Thursday.

The star, who played Colonel Mustard in Clue, Roseanne’s boss Leon Carp in the sitcom Roseanne and starred with Fred Willard on Norman Lear‘s Fernwood 2 Nite, passed away at home after a battling a ‘long illness’, according to his daughter Maggie Mull.

“I am heartbroken to share that my father passed away at home on June 27th, after a valiant fight against a long illness,” Maggie wrote on Instagram.

“He was known for excelling at every creative discipline imaginable and also for doing Red Roof Inn commercials. He would find that joke funny. He was never not funny,” she continued alongside a black-and-white snap of her father.

“My dad will be deeply missed by his wife and daughter, by his friends and coworkers, by fellow artists and comedians and musicians, and—the sign of a truly exceptional person—by many, many dogs. I loved him tremendously,” she concluded.

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