Known to sitcom fans as one half of greaser duo Lenny and Squiggy on “Laverne & Shirley”, David L. Lander has passed away at age 73.
Lander’s widow, photographer Kathy Fields, confirmed to TMZ that he died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles due to complications from multiple scleroris, a disease he’d been living with for more than 30 years.
Lander (who played Squiggy) and his “Laverne & Shirley” co-star Michael McKean (Lenny) had been performing comedy together in L.A.
when they were hired as writers on for the show ahead of its launch in 1976. As series co-creator Lowell Ganz told The TV Academy Foundation (via The Hollywood Reporter), producers figured the two could also be used onscreen if a script “ever needed two
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