Martin Mull, who played Colonel Mustard in Clue, Roseanne’s boss Leon Carp in the ABC comedy Roseanne and starred on Norman Lear‘s Fernwood 2 Nite, died Thursday at his home.
He was 80. The news was revealed by his daughter Maggie Mull, an exec producer on Family Guy. “I am heartbroken to share that my father passed away at home on June 27th, after a valiant fight against a long illness.
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. 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.
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