, a longtime screen actor best remembered as the beleaguered bridegroom Jerry Buell on the NBC sitcomFogel, who diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2008, died Monday at the Kansas City Hospice House in Kansas City, Missouri, his family announced.
The son of a Rochester, N.Y, movie theater owner, Fogel found his first show-biz audience in his hometown as a highly rated disc jockey for WBBF-AM, a local rock ‘n’ roll radio station. Fogel signed off in Rochester, however, when he signed up with the William Morris Agency and headed west to seek his fortune in Hollywood. His big break arrived in the form ofwriting tandem Bob Carroll and Madelyn Pugh Davis.
A former West Point cadet, the lanky 6-foot-3 actor also played Lt. Commander William Outerbridge in Richard Fleischer’s , the Pearl Harbor epic that also featured Martin Balsam, Jason Robards, E.G. Marshall, Sō Yamamura, and Joseph Cotton., Fogel was a recurring cast member portraying the brother of star Ken Howard’s Ken Reeves, a retired Chicago Bulls player who takes on the basketball coach job at a fictional Los Angeles high school.