Comic actor Jay Thomas, who won two Emmys in the early 1990s for his work on Murphy Brown, died Thursday in Santa Barbara, California, following a battle with cancer. He was 69.
His agent Don Buchwald confirmed Thomas' death to the New York Daily News, saying his wife, Sally, and sons Sam, Jake, and J.T. were by his side when he died. "Jay was one of a kind, never at a loss for words, and filled with so much fun and wonderfully whacky thoughts and behavior," Buchwald said.
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