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Tom Hanks appeared on last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! to promote his new film Finch, but took the occasion to offer a poignant remembrance of his great friend and Bosom Buddies co-star Peter Scolari, who died of cancer on Oct. 22. "I don’t know how many people truly do change your lives when you cross paths with them,&#8221…

TV icon Bob Newhart honored his Newhart co-star Peter Scolari as a 40-year friend, a joy to work with and “an essential part of the success” of the great 1982-90 CBS sitcom. In a statement to Deadline, later tweeted, Newhart said, “I knew that Peter was sick, but his death still comes as a great shock. We were friends…

Refresh for updates… Lena Dunham, who created and starred in the HBO series – Girls – that won Peter Scolari an Emmy Award – remembered her co-star in a poignant address on Instagram today, writing, in part, “I couldn't have been raised up by a better TV papa." “The shyest extrovert, the most dramatic comedian, the…

The creative team and cast of CBS’ Evil honored Peter Scolari, who died on Friday after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 66 years old. For Evil co-creator Robert King, Scolari “was one of the funniest – sneakily funny – actors we’ve worked with.” “He always took a nothing scene and found different ways to twist…

Peter Scolari, the prolific television and stage actor who found instant fame and a lifelong friendship with Tom Hanks when the two co-starred in the hit 1980 TV comedy Bosom Buddies, died early Friday morning following a two-year battle with cancer. He was 66. His death was announced by Ellen Lubin Sanitsky at Wright…

Working consistently since the 1980s in film, television and theater, Becky Ann Baker may forever be known for maternal turns in two iconic series, the blessing and occasional burden of extraordinary work. Both from executive producer Judd Apatow, those series would be cult classic Freaks and Geeks and Lena Dunham’s Gi…

Peter Scolari won his first ever Emmy Award, Best Comedy Series Guest Actor, for playing Lena Dunham’s dad on HBO’s Girls. And he wasn’t even in contention on Emmy nomination day. “Wow I just talked myself out of it too,” Scolari said onstage, before launching into thanks for Dunham and many others including “my…

Peter Scolari, who plays Lena Dunham’s father Tad on HBO’s Girls, has been tapped as the new nominee for the Emmy Awards’ Guest Actor in a Comedy Series category. He replaces Peter MacNicol, who was originally nominated for his role on HBO’s Veep last week but was disqualified yesterday when the TV Academy discovered…

EXCLUSIVE: Bronx Tale writer-star Chazz Palminteri will play the title role, an eccentric thesp, in a staged reading of the new play Breaking Bobby Stone directed by veteran actor Peter Scolari (Girls). The comedy by Ben Andron (White’s Lies) tells the story of the reclusive Stone and a young reporter who’ll…