David Doyle

Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Doyle graduated from Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1947.{{cite web |url=https://campion-knights.org/Notables/ |title=Campion Graduate Notables |website=Campion High School |access-date=March 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130903052512/http://campion-knights.org/Notables/ |url-status=live |archive-date=September 3, 2013}}

His maternal grandfather, John Fitzgerald, was a prominent railroad builder and banker in Nebraska. His younger sister, Mary (1931–1995), was a stage actress, who died from lung cancer aged 63.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/10/obituaries/mary-doyle-actress-63.html| title=Mary Doyle, Actress, 63| date=June 10, 1995| newspaper=The New York Times}}

Doyle is best remembered for his role as detective John Bosley on the television series Charlie's Angels, one of only two actors (the other being original angel Jaclyn Smith) to appear in all 110 episodes of the series (1976–1981).{{cite journal| last=Reilly| first=Sue| url=https://people.com/archive/cover-story-farewell-farrah-vol-8-no-7/| title=Farewell, Farrah| date=August 15, 1977| journal=People| volume=8| issue=7| access-date=February 26, 2020}}

Doyle made a number of appearances as a guest on the game show Match Game from 1977 to 1982, usually on the top row next to regular panelists Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly. He appeared on one week of Password Plus in 1980, three weeks of Super Password, and on Tattletales with his wife Anne in 1982.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}

He voiced Grandpa Lou Pickles on the Nickelodeon animated series Rugrats from 1991 until his death, after which he was replaced by Joe Alaskey.{{cite news |last=Melle |first=Megan O'Neill |date=November 8, 2019 |title=Take a Trip Down Memory Lane With a Look Back at Every Charlie's Angels Star Through the Years |url=https://parade.com/947348/meganoneill/charlies-angels-through-the-years/ |magazine=Parade |access-date=November 8, 2019}}{{cite news |last=Petski |first=Denise |date=February 4, 2016 |title=Joe Alaskey Dies: Latter-Day Voice Of Bugs Bunny & Daffy Duck During Long Career Was 63 |website=Deadline Hollywood |url=https://deadline.com/2016/02/joe-alaskey-dies-voice-actor-bugs-bunny-daffy-duck-1201696357/ |access-date=March 21, 2018}}

Doyle was also a stage actor. He played Orgon in the 1964 premiere of Richard Wilbur's translation of Tartuffe at the Fred Miller Theater in Milwaukee. His sister Mary played the maid, Dorine, in the same production.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}} His New York stage credits include Beg, Borrow or Steal, Something About a Soldier, Here's Love, I Was Dancing, and a revival of South Pacific.{{cite book |editor1-last=Willis |editor1-first=John |editor1-link=John A. Willis |editor2-last=Lynch |editor2-first=Tom |title=John Willis Theatre World 1996-1997 Season |volume=53 |year=1999 |publisher=Applause Theatre Book Publishers |isbn=978-1-5578-3343-3 |oclc=42465014 |page=258 |chapter=David Doyle |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/theatreworld19960000unse/page/258/mode/2up |access-date=2021-05-06}}

Doyle was married twice. In 1956 he married his first wife, Rachael, with whom he had a daughter, Leah (born 1961). Rachael died in 1968 after falling from a staircase. The next year, while in a revival of the play South Pacific, Doyle met Anne Nathan, a singer dancer, and they married a short time later.

Doyle died in Los Angeles, California, of a heart attack on February 26, 1997, at age 67.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-01-mn-33700-story.html| title=David Doyle; Actor on 'Charlie's Angels'| first=Myrna| last=Oliver| date=March 1, 1997| newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=February 26, 2020 |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226072443/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-01-mn-33700-story.html |archive-date=February 26, 2020}}{{cite news |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/546533/CHARLIES-ANGELS-ACTOR-DIES-OF-HEART-ATTACK-AT-67.html?pg=all |title='Charlie's Angels' Actor Dies of Heart Attack at 67 |newspaper=Deseret News |location=Salt Lake City |date=March 2, 1997 |access-date=January 13, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111235125/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/546533/CHARLIES-ANGELS-ACTOR-DIES-OF-HEART-ATTACK-AT-67.html?pg=all |archive-date=January 11, 2014}}

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