has died after battling lung cancer. he won a tony award for his role as new york city mayor on broadway. after happy days he was the sheriff on murder she wrote and the lead in father downing mysteries. he was 83 years old. isn t that father dowling? i believe so. what a terrific actor. made you feel at home. and the fonz listened to him. he was the father fittigure to fonz at an important time of his life. talked about how the president is going off to a five day blitz, last stand for democrats and in his old senate seat, there was a fight last night. round one. where you had the republican mark kirk vs. the democrat and kirk was pointing out that mr. gionolus was a loan officer and a treasure at the time of great peril in this country and there was a lot of talk back and forth