NEW YORK — “F Troop” star Larry Storch is dead at 99.
The funnyman’s death was announced on Facebook Friday — exactly six months short of what would have been the Bronx native’s 100th birthday.
“We are shocked and at a loss for words at the moment,” a note on that fan page said. “Please remember he loved each and every one of you and wouldn’t want you to cry over his passing.”
He died while sleeping in his Upper West Side home.
Storch’s obituary said the actor would be reunited with his wife Norma, who died in 2003, as well as many friends and family members he came to know over the course of nearly a century.
His most famous role was that of Cpl. Randolph Agarn, who he played from 1965 to 1967 on the military comedy “F Troop.” The show was set at an Army post in the West after the Civil War. In the show — which would never fly today — the U.S. troops engaged in comic capers with a tribe of caricatured Native Americans.
Storch worked regularly over the four decades that followed including a 1995 cameo appearance on “Married... with Children.”
He also voiced cartoon characters Phineas J. Whoopee on “Tennessee Tuxedo” and the Batman villain Joker.
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