Hollywood legend Howard Hesseman has passed away.

Hesseman, who made who played the disc jockey Johnny Fever on the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati, passed away on Saturday, January 29, 2022, at the age of 81.

His wife, actress Caroline Ducrocq said the actor died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles of complications from colon surgery he first had last summer.

Born on February 27, 1940, in Lebanon, Oregon, Hesseman was the son of Edna Forster and George Henry Hesseman.

The legendary actor graduated from Silverton High School in 1958.

He attended the University of Oregon, and was later a founding member of the San Francisco-based improvisational comedy troupe The Committee with fellow actor David Ogden Stiers.

Early in his acting career, he used the alias Don Sturdy, the name he also used as a radio DJ on underground FM station KMPX in San Francisco in the late 1960s.

He is survived by his wife Caroline Ducrocq, and godchildren, Grace, Hamish, and Chet.

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The family of Hesseman is yet to announce his funeral and burial arrangements.

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