Martin Mull, a comic actor and musician familiar to fans Arrested Development, veepAnd Roseannepassed away this week, daughter Maggie Mull said. He was 80 years old.
According to one Instagram post on Friday night Mull, her father “passed away at home on June 27, after a long illness. He was known for excelling in every creative field imaginable and also doing commercials for Red Roof Inn,” she continued, noting that “He would have found that joke funny. He was never not funny.”
“My dad will be deeply missed by his wife and daughters, friends and colleagues, artists, comedians and musicians, and—the mark of a truly special person—many, many dogs. I love him dearly.”
Martin Mull rose to fame in the 1970s, first playing ill-fated domestic abuser Garth Gimble in the soap satire Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. In the extra story Fernwood 2 nightsalso aimed at similar talk shows, he played Barth Gimble, Garth’s twin brother.
