Comedic actor Martin Mull died at the age of 80 on Thursday.
The star, who played Colonel Mustard in Clue, Roseanne’s boss Leon Carp in the sitcom Roseanne and starred with Fred Willard on Norman Lear‘s Fernwood 2 Nite, passed away at home after a battling a ‘long illness’, according to his daughter Maggie Mull.
‘I am heartbroken to share that my father passed away at home on June 27th, after a valiant fight against a long illness,’ Maggie wrote on Instagram.
‘He was known for excelling at every creative discipline imaginable and also for doing Red Roof Inn commercials. He would find that joke funny. He was never not funny,’ she continued alongside a black-and-white snap of her father.
‘My dad will be deeply missed by his wife and daughter, by his friends and coworkers, by fellow artists and comedians and musicians, and—the sign of a truly exceptional person—by many, many dogs. I loved him tremendously,’ she concluded.
Comedic actor Martin Mull died at the age of 80 on Thursday; (pictured 2018)
The star played Colonel Mustard in Clue, Roseanne’s boss Leon Carp in the sitcom Roseanne (pictured) and starred with Fred Willard on Norman Lear‘s Fernwood 2 Nite, passed away at home after a battling a ‘long illness’
Mull received an Emmy nomination in 2016 for his guest role as political aide Bob Bradley in Veep.
More recently, he has made guest appearances on The Afterparty, Not Dead Yet, and Grace and Frankie.
Martin Eugene Mull was born in Chicago to an actress-director mother and a carpenter father.
At the age of 2, his family relocated to North Ridgeville, Ohio, and when he was 15, they moved again to New Canaan, Connecticut.
Mull pursued his passion for painting, earning both a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design.
