David Doyle (actor)

Doyle was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Mary Ruth (née Fitzgerald) and Lewis Raymond Doyle, an attorney. He graduated from Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1947.

His maternal grandfather, John Fitzgerald, was a prominent railroad builder and banker in Nebraska.[1] His younger sister, Mary (1931–1995), was a stage actress, who died from lung cancer aged 63.[3]

Doyle is best remembered for his role as detective John Bosley on the television series Charlie's Angels, one of only two actors (the other being original angel Jaclyn Smith) to appear in all 110 episodes of the series (1976–1981).[4]

Doyle made a number of appearances as a guest on the game show Match Game in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He appeared on one week of Password Plus in 1980, three weeks of Super Password, and on Tattletales with his wife Anne in 1982.

He lent his distinctive raspy voice to the character Grandpa Lou Pickles on the Nickelodeon animated series Rugrats from 1991 until his death. Joe Alaskey then assumed the role of Grandpa Lou.

Doyle was also a stage actor. He played Orgon in the 1964 premiere of Richard Wilbur's translation of Tartuffe at the Fred Miller Theater in Milwaukee. His sister Mary played the maid, Dorine, in the same production.

Doyle was married twice. In 1956 he married his first wife, Rachael, with whom he had a daughter, Leah (born 1961). Rachael died in 1968 after falling from a staircase. The next year, while on a vacation trip to the South Pacific, Doyle met Anne Nathan, a singer-dancer, and they married a short time later.[4]

Doyle died in Los Angeles, California, of a heart attack on February 26, 1997, at age 67, and was cremated.[1]