Martin Mull, who starred in hit TV shows such as Roseanne, Sabrina The Teenage Witch and Arrested Development, has died aged 80.
Mull’s daughter, television writer and comic book artist Maggie Mull, said he died at home Thursday after a “brave fight against a long illness.”
The American actor, first known for his role on the 1970s satirical soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and its spin-off Fernwood Tonight, “never stopped being funny,” Mull said.
“He was known for excelling in every creative discipline imaginable and also for doing Red Roof Inn commercials,” Mull wrote on Instagram.
“He would find that joke funny. It never stopped being funny.
“My father will be deeply missed by his wife and daughter, by his friends and co-workers, by his fellow artists, comedians and musicians and, a sign of a truly exceptional person, by many, many dogs.”
Mull was born in chicagoRaised in Ohio and Connecticut and studied art in Rhode Island and Rome, he was known for his blonde hair and neatly trimmed mustache.
In the 1990s, he became famous for his recurring role on several seasons of the popular sitcom Roseanne, in which he played the boss of the main character, Leon Carp.
To millennials, he may be even better known as the director of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, playing the overbearing Principal Kraft.
He would later appear in Arrested Development as private detective Gene Parmesan, and was nominated for his first Emmy in 2016 for his participation in Veep.
“I’m very proud of what I did on Veep, but I’d like to think it’s probably more collective, at my age it’s more collective,” Mull said after his nomination.
“It could go all the way to Fernwood.”
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Mull (center) photographed in 1979. Photo: Ralph Dominguez/MediaPunch /IPX via AP
Other comedians and actors were often Mull’s biggest fans.
“Martin was the best,” Bridesmaids director Paul Feig said in X.
“What fun, how talented, what a good guy. I was lucky enough to perform with him on The Jackie Thomas Show and I treasured every moment of being with a legend.
“Fernwood Tonight was very influential in my life.”
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Mull is survived by his daughter Maggie and musician Wendy Haas, his wife since 1982.
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