Bob McGrath, an actor, musician and youngsters’s creator broadly identified for his portrayal of one of many first common characters on the kids’s present “Sesame Avenue” has died on the age of 90.
McGrath’s passing was confirmed by his household who posted on his Fb web page on Sunday: “The McGrath household has some unhappy information to share. Our father Bob McGrath, handed away in the present day. He died peacefully at residence, surrounded by his household.”
Sesame Workshop tweeted Sunday night that it “mourns the passing of Bob McGrath, a beloved member of the Sesame Avenue household for over 50 years.”
McGrath was a founding forged member of “Sesame Avenue” when the present premiered in 1969, taking part in a pleasant neighbor Bob Johnson. He made his last look on the present in 2017, marking an virtually five-decade-long determine within the “Sesame Avenue” world.
The actor grew up in Illinois and studied music on the College of Michigan and Manhattan College of Music. He additionally was a singer within the 60s sequence “Sing Alongside With Mitch” and launched a profitable singing profession abroad in Japan.
“A revered performer worldwide, Bob’s wealthy tenor crammed airwaves and live performance halls from Las Vegas to Saskatchewan to Tokyo many instances over,” Sesame Workshop mentioned. “We shall be perpetually grateful for his a few years of passionate artistic contributions to Sesame Avenue and honored that he shared a lot of his life with us.”
He’s survived by his spouse, Ann Logan Sperry, and their 5 youngsters.
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This story corrects that McGrath studied on the College of Michigan, not Maryland.
