David LanderTV's "Squiggy" dies at 73Lander (né Landau), a native Brooklynite, met his comic partner Michael McKean while attending college in Pittsburgh. Together, they created the comic greaser duo Lenny and Squiggy, among other roles. They traveled to the West Coast and joined the seminal comedy troupe The Credibility Gap before bringing their Lenny and Squiggy act, virtually intact, to television on the hit television series
Laverne & Shirley. The duo split when McKean left the series in 1982.
Lander continued his career for the next two decades, becoming a fixture in bit parts and voice-acting roles, using his natural Brooklyn greaser accent to full effect as a character actor. One notable example of a non-Brooklynite role he voiced was one of his longest-running, the recurring role of farm-boy "Doc Boy" Arbuckle in the
Garfield cartoons.
Lander, who had suffered from multiple sclerosis since the mid-1980s but only went public with the diagnosis in 1999, died from complications of the disease December 4.
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