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Friday, February 04, 2011

Passing: "Dan Whitfield" (NY Times)

From The New York Times:

By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK
Published: February 4, 2011

Who was Dan Whitfield ?

Well, I was a big fan of the old Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Dan Whitfield was a journalism teacher and boyfriend of Mary Richards.

The actor who portrayed Dan Whitfield, Michael Tolan, died on January 31 at age 85 in Hudson, NY.

In addition to the MSM Show, Tolan also was recurring presence on television in the 1960s and ’70s after walking away from film and Broadway.But he returned to the stage to help found the American Place Theater, a successful Off Broadway house, died on Monday in Hudson, N.Y. He was 85.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/arts/television/04tolan.html?_r=1&hpw

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