Hot! Don Grady

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) Don Grady , who seem to ended up being considered one of television's nearly all much loved significant siblings because Robbie Douglas for the long-running 1960s hit "My Three Sons," died Wednesday. He seemed to be 68.

His "My Three Sons" co-star Barry Livingston, exactly who gamed youngest brother Ernie, proved Grady's death to be able to The Associated Press. Livingston stated Grady ended up battling through cancer in addition to acquiring hospice care at his / her property inside Thousand Oaks, Calif. But the exact cause along with area regarding passing were not necessarily immediately clear.

"It's this most seasoned cliche on the planet when TV brothers start out referring to one another like neurological brothers, nonetheless he seemed to be this oldest, in addition to an individual I considered as much as and acquired originating from a majority with regards to life," Livingston said.

Born in San Diego as Don Louis Agrati, Grady experienced a short stint performing and also breaking a leg on "The Mickey Mouse Club" starting at age group 13.

But he ended up being most commonly known definitely jointly of Fred MacMurray's "My Three Sons" within the line that will ran on ABC in addition to after CBS coming from 1960 to help 1972.

The well-known show, which in turn showcased MacMurray to be a widowed aeronautical engineer struggling in order to bring up several more mature boys, appeared to be among the at best going friends and family sitcoms coming from all occasion by using 380 episodes.

In the show's previous decades Douglas ended up being in fact the center brother, by using Tim Considine participating in the oldest, Mike, along with Stanley Livingston playing the youngest, Chip. When Considine departed, Barry Livingston grew to become your taken "third" son, and Grady turned the actual cool, large and also assured eldest frankly very much of America adored.

A music prodigy at a young age, Grady made an appearance having a band, the particular Greefs, inside series, and throughout proper played out percussion intended for The Yellow Balloon, that acquired a minor strike that has a self-titled music throughout 1967.

He designed a number of invitee appearances on TV series inside 1970s and 1980s, but proved helpful primarily to be a artist and also composer, producing your theme intended for "The Phil Donahue Show" and songs for the Blake Edwards motion picture "Switch" as well as the common Las Vegas show "EFX," a showcase to get "Phantom in the Opera" star Michael Crawford.

"The one particular actual through-line in his or her life ended up being music," Livingston said. "I would feel Don want to get remembered pertaining to his great songs around a teen idol as well as television icon."