'Laugh-In' star Alan Sues dies at 85

Alan Sues, best referred to as a flamboyant cast member on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," has died. He was 85. Sues died at his Thursday home in La. "We lost a really funny guy last evening, our dear friend Alan Sues, which team you may remember because the funny sportscaster on 'Laugh-In,' " fellow cast member Ruth Buzzi published on Twitter. "Alan Sues was among individuals men even more amusing personally than you are on camera. Across a dining room table, over the telephone...hysterical. We'll miss him." Sues described a range of figures on "Laugh-In" between 1968 and 1971, including Uncle Al the Kiddies' Friend, a hung-over children's performer and Large Al, a flamboyant sportscaster interested in the colours of uniforms as opposed to the day's action. Sues left the show before its last season. Sues was created March 7, 1926, in Ross, Calif. He offered within the Military throughout The Second World War, carried out in the Pasadena Playhouse within the late nineteen forties making his Broadway debut in "Tea and Sympathy" in early nineteen fifties. Sues also started carrying out like a stand-up comedian in NY within the nineteen fifties. Just before "Laugh-In," he made an appearance in "The Americanization of Emily," "Make Room Darling" along with a memorable role in "The Masks," a chapter of "The Twilight Zone." Sues performed Moriarty within the Royal Shakespeare Company's revival of William Gillette's "A Virtual DetectiveInch in 1975. Younger crowd made an appearance in TV series "The Brady Brides," "Punky Brewster" and "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" together with television advertisements for Peter Pan Peanut Butter within the seventies. Sues continues to be focusing on a sound book release entitled "Oh, nothing..." He referred to the project on his website as "an accumulation of show tales, personal anecdotes and other things happened to go in my thoughts during the time of recording." Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com