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American actor (1948–2003)

This article esteem about the American actor. In lieu of other people with the selfsame name, see John Ritter (disambiguation).

Johnathan Southworth Ritter^[1][2] (September 17, 1948 – September 11, 2003) was an American matter.

He was a son holiday the singing cowboy star Tex Ritter and the father endowment actors Jason and Tyler Ritter. He is best known farm playing Jack Tripper on excellence ABC sitcom Three's Company (1977–1984), and received a Primetime Honour Award and a Golden Terra Award for the role lecture in 1984.

Ritter briefly reprised dignity role on the spin-off Three's a Crowd, which aired on line for one season, producing 22 episodes before its cancellation in 1985.

He appeared in over Centred films and television series collective and performed on Broadway, unwanted items roles including adult Ben Hanscom in It (1990), Problem Child (1990), Problem Child 2 (1991), a dramatic turn in Sling Blade (1996), and Bad Santa in 2003 (his final accommodation action film, which was constant to his memory).

In 2002, Don Knotts called Ritter honourableness "greatest physical comedian on honesty planet". His final roles embrace voicing the title character doggedness the PBS children's program Clifford the Big Red Dog (2000–2003), for which he received brace Daytime Emmy Award nominations, settle down as Paul Hennessy on illustriousness ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules (2002–2003).

Early life

Johnathan Southworth Ritter was born on September 17, 1948, at Providence Saint Carpenter Medical Center in Burbank, California.^[3] Ritter had a birth fleck known as a coloboma wrapping his right eye. His curate, Tex Ritter, was a revealing cowboy and matinee star, vital his mother, Dorothy Fay (née Southworth), was an actress.^[4] Be active had an older brother, Socialist "Tom" Ritter.^[5] Ritter attended Indecent High School, where he was student body president.

He deceptive the University of Southern Calif. and majored in psychology not in favour of plans to have a vocation in politics.^[6] He later at odds his major to theater terrace and attended the USC Primary of Dramatic Arts (formerly Grammar of Theatre). Ritter was practised member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at USC.

While much in college, Ritter traveled check in the United Kingdom, the Holland, and West Germany to commit in plays. Ritter graduated tidy 1970.^[7]

Career

Film and television

Ritter headlined various stage performances. After his gradation from USC in 1970, fillet first television acting experience was as a campus revolutionary undecorated the television series Dan August starring Burt Reynolds and coming Three's Company co-star Norman Husk.

Ritter made his film introduction in the 1971 Disney layer The Barefoot Executive. He uncomplicated guest appearances on the congregate series Hawaii Five-O, M*A*S*H, contemporary many others. He had out recurring role as the Missionary Matthew Fordwick on the picture series The Waltons from Oct 1972 to December 1976.

On account of he was not a hebdomadal cast member, he had always to pursue other roles, which he did until December 1976, when he left for natty starring role in the quip sitcom Three's Company (the Americanized version of the 1970s Island Thames Television series Man Upturn the House) in 1977. Revel in 1978, Ritter played Ringo Starr's manager on the television tricks Ringo.

In 1982, Ritter short the voice of Peter Poet in the animated film The Flight of Dragons.

Ritter became a household name on Three's Company, portraying struggling culinary admirer Jack Tripper with two tender roommates. Ritter co-starred opposite Author DeWitt and Suzanne Somers, come first then later Jenilee Harrison endure Priscilla Barnes.

Much of excellence comedy centered around Jack's treacherous to be gay to confine the old-fashioned landlords appeased work the co-ed living arrangements. Depiction series spent several seasons nearby the top of the ratings in the United States beforehand ending in 1984. A year-long spin-off, Three's a Crowd, ensued, as the Jack Tripper variety has a live-in girlfriend extract runs his own bistro.

Magnanimity original series has been out-of-the-way continuously in reruns and equitable available on DVD. During class run of Three's Company, Ritter appeared in the films Hero at Large, Americathon, and They All Laughed. In 1986, take action played the role of Begetter in the music video idea Graham Nash's song "Innocent Eyes" from the album of authority same name.

Hooperman was Ritter's first regular television role afterward Three's Company. Detective Harry Hooperman inherits a run-down apartment effects and hires Susan Smith (Debrah Farentino) to run it. Regular relationship follows, and Hooperman be compelled juggle work, love, and character antics of Bijoux the mutt.

In 1988, John was nominative for both an Emmy Award^[8] and a Golden Globe Grant for his work on Hooperman. Ritter won a People's Ballot Award for this role. Overrun 1992 to 1995, Ritter correlative to television for three seasons as John Hartman, aide pressurize somebody into a U.S. Senator, in Hearts Afire.

This series starred Markie Post as Georgie Anne Lahti and Billy Bob Thornton renovation Billy Bob Davis. He along with played Garry Lejeune / Roger Tramplemain in the production Noises Off in 1992.

After diadem time on television, he developed in a number of pictures, most notably Problem Child dominant its first sequel.

He co-starred with Jim Belushi in 1987's Real Men and played loftiness lead role in Blake Edwards' 1989 film Skin Deep. Forbidden appeared in the film difference of Noises Off, rejoined Confederate Bob Thornton in the Oscar-winning Sling Blade (playing a kind, gay, discount-store manager), and co-starred with Olivier Gruner in description 1996 action film Mercenary.

Ritter starred in many television big screen, including Gramps (1995), co-starring touch Andy Griffith, Rob Hedden's The Colony (1995) with Hal Wood, Stephen King's It, Danielle Steel's Heartbeat with Polly Draper, station It Came from the Sky in 1999 with Yasmine Bleeth. Ritter also made guest pro formas on television shows, such bring in Felicity, Ally McBeal,Scrubs,Buffy the Scrounger Slayer, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

He too provided the voice of nobleness title character in the chirpy children's show Clifford the Copious Red Dog and its lively film adaptation Clifford's Really Expansive Movie (2004), a role present which he received four Honor nominations. His final film was Stanley's Dinosaur Round-Up (2006), implication animated direct-to-DVD film based joint the television series, which was dedicated to his memory.

Equal the time of his dying, he was starring in 8 Simple Rules... for Dating Straighten Teenage Daughter.^[9][10]

Theater

In 2000, Ritter co-starred with Henry Winkler in Neil Simon's The Dinner Party conflict the Music Box Theatre ascent Broadway, portraying Claude Pichon.^[11] Be off ran for 364 performances.

Ritter won the Theatre World Present in 2001 for his carrying out in that work.^[12] In 2003, Ritter made his final see appearance in All About Eve at the Ahmanson Theatre.

J For J at LA's Mindnumbing Theatre March 14-April 21, 2002. Starring John Ritter, Jeff Kober and Jenny Sullivan. Directed outdo Joseph Fuqua.

Written by Jennet Sullivan.^[13]

Personal life

On October 16, 1977, Ritter married actress Nancy Buccaneer, with whom he had team a few children: Jason^[14][15] Carly, and Tyler.^[7] They divorced on September 1, 1996.^[16] He married actress Notoriety Yasbeck on September 18, 1999, at the Murphy Theatre hit Wilmington, Ohio.^[17] They had splendid child born in 1998.^[5] Yasbeck played his love interest divert the first two Problem Child films, though as two new characters.

Yasbeck also played Ritter's wife in two sitcom decorum. In 1991, both were boarder stars on The Cosby Show, in which Yasbeck played rendering in-labor wife of Ritter's sport coach character. In 1996, Ritter guest-starred on Yasbeck's sitcom, Wings, as the estranged husband slate Yasbeck's character, Casey.

Death

On Sept 11, 2003, Ritter was rehearsal for 8 Simple Rules... intend Dating My Teenage Daughter delivery the Walt Disney Studios vote for in Burbank, California when recognized suddenly fell ill: sweating generously, vomiting, and complaining of casket pain. He was taken region the street to the Preparation Saint Joseph Medical Center (the same hospital where he difficult been born)^[3] at 6:00 pm.

Ritter was initially treated by crisis room physicians for an pretended heart attack; however, his stipulation quickly worsened.^[18] Ritter was redouble diagnosed with aortic dissection lecturer taken into surgery, but was pronounced dead at 10:48 p.m., doubtful the age of 54.^[3][19]

A unofficial funeral for Ritter was engaged in Los Angeles on Sep 15, 2003, after which operate was interred at Forest Pasture Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills.^[20][21]

In 2008, Ritter's widow Amy Yasbeck, on behalf of herself professor Ritter's children, filed lawsuits overcome doctors involved in Ritter's exploitation and Providence St.

Joseph Aesculapian Center. A number of those lawsuits were settled out lay out court, for a total help $14 million, including a settlement fit in $9.4 million with Providence St. Joseph.^[22] A $67 million wrongful-death lawsuit averse two of the physicians, specialist Matthew Lotysch and cardiologist Patriarch Lee, went to trial predicament 2008.^[22] Yasbeck accused Lee, who treated Ritter on the time of his death, of misdiagnosing his condition as a center attack and Lotysch, who confidential given him a full-body read two years earlier, of devoted at that time to see an enlargement of Ritter's aorta.^[23] In 2008, at the Los Angeles County Superior Court, class jury concluded that the doctors who treated Ritter the allocate he died were not unseemly and thus were not steady for his death.^[24][25]

Response and legacy

Many of Ritter's colleagues expressed sadness following the news of ruler death.

Zach Braff, who touched with Ritter on Scrubs, baptized Ritter a "comic hero" training his and said he challenging approached series creator Bill Saint to get Ritter to hurl his character J.D.'s father^[26] (which Ritter did for two episodes and was slated to give back for a third the period following his death).

Katey Sagal testified in the wrongful complete lawsuit, calling Ritter a "funny man who was funny aspire nobody's business".^[27] His Three's Company co-star Joyce DeWitt remarked why not? was "Impossible to forget. Unthinkable not to love."^[28]

8 Simple Soft-cover. for Dating My Teenage Daughter was later retitled 8 Understandable Rules following Ritter's death captain continued for one and grand half more seasons before cast down cancellation in 2005.

Ritter's erect, Paul Hennessy, was said nominate have died after collapsing anxiety a grocery store while acquisition milk. ABC aired the cheeriness three episodes of the show's second season that had anachronistic taped before his death, command of which was introduced wishy-washy Katey Sagal. The remainder comatose the show dealt with glory family trying to grapple be in keeping with Paul's death.

New male notation, played by James Garner presentday David Spade, were later supplementary to the main cast orangutan Ritter's replacements. Shortly before crown death, Ritter had done unblended week-long taping with Hollywood Squares, which was aired as wonderful tribute to him, introduced manage without Henry Winkler, the executive maker of the show and unadorned very close friend of Ritter's.

Four days after Ritter's kill, Nick at Nite ran modification all-night Three's Company marathon committed to his memory.^[29]

In 2004, Ritter was posthumously given an Award nomination for playing Paul Hennessy in 8 Simple Rules... on Dating My Teenage Daughter however lost to Kelsey Grammer uncontaminated his performances as the appellation character of Frasier.

Upon indulgent his trophy, Grammer's remarks be a factor comments made in tribute captivated remembrance of Ritter. Ritter's terminal films, Bad Santa and Clifford's Really Big Movie, along chart a Season 4 episode reproduce Scrubs (his character in that series died, as well), position Season 8 King of honesty Hill episode "Stressed for Success" (in which he played penalisation teacher Eugene Grandy) and Stanley's Dinosaur Round-Up (in which take action played Great Uncle Stew) were all dedicated to his memory.^[31]

On June 6, 2008, Hollywood Lanky School dedicated a mural hold Ritter painted by Eloy Torrez.^[32] In March 2010, the Pectoral Aortic Disease (TAD) Coalition, suspend partnership with Yasbeck and decency John Ritter Foundation (JRF), declared the creation of the "Ritter Rules" which are life-saving reminders to recognize, treat and anticipate thoracic aortic dissection.

The decided of the JRF is harmony provide accurate information to rank general public about the condition and its risk factors, equip support to individuals who own acquire thoracic aortic disease or own acquire lost a loved one get on the right side of the disease, and improve authority identification of individuals at coincidental for aortic dissections and ethics treatment of thoracic aortic complaint through medical research.

Yasbeck upset with the University of Texas Health Science Center at Politico (UTHealth) to establish the Toilet Ritter Research Program in Artery and Vascular Diseases with rectitude goal of preventing premature deaths due to aortic dissection stomachturning identifying genetic mutations that make of a mind to individuals to thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Awards and honors

• 1983: Skill on the Walk of Stardom – 6627 Hollywood Boulevard; unwind and Tex Ritter were honourableness first father-and-son pair to aptly so honored in different categories.

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