Frank Bonner, the actor who played the plaid-suited sales manager Herb Tarlek on the CBS comedy WKRP in Cincinnati, died of complications from Lewy body dementia yesterday at his home in Laguna Niguel, California.
He was 79.His death was announced on Facebook by daughter Desiree Boers-Kort. “I’m deeply saddened to let you know that our beloved Frank Bonner passed away today at age 79,” she wrote on the WKRP in Cincinnati home page. “He loved his fans and was still signing autograph requests up until the last few weeks of his illness.
Thank you to all who followed his career. He will be forever missed.”Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, as Frank Boers Jr., Bonner made his acting debut in 1967’s The Equinox … A Journey into the Unknown (retitled
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