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NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Randall, who served as a fussy foil for Rock Hudson and Doris Day, David Letterman and Johnny Carson and, most famously, Jack Klugman on 'The Odd Couple,' has died at 84 after a long illness.

Tony Randall, born Aryeh Rosenberg, would have turned 100 on February 26, 2020. We celebrate his Jewish heritage.

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Actor, Entertainer. Fondly remembered for his role of 'Felix Unger' on the hit 1970s television series, The Odd Couple, for which he won an Emmy Award. A highly respected and accomplished stage actor, he was popular in numerous Broadway plays. He appeared in many motion pictures, including Will Success Spoil Rock...

Oscar & Felix (Tony Randall & Jack Klugman)

Arthur Leonard Rosenburg was born February 26, 1920, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His parents, Mogscha and Julia were antique dealers. Known as Leonard, he had a sister named Edna. Later, when he played Felix Unger on the TV series, the Odd Couple, his character had two children, a son named Leonard and a daughter named Edna. Leonard attended Tulsa Central High School (class of 1938). He had an English teacher named Isabelle E. Ronan. A humble, unpretentious woman who taught at Central High from the…

Dutch postcard. Danny Kaye (1911-1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, comedian, and musician. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes and tongue-twisting songs. He left school at the age of 13 to work in the so-called Borscht Belt of Jewish resorts in the Catskill Mountains. It was there he learned the basics of show biz. In 1939, he made his Broadway debut in Straw Hat Revue, but it was the stage production of the musical Lady in the Dark in 1940 that…