Hot! My Three Sons Big Brother Don Grady Dies At 68

(AP)

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) Don Grady , who seem to was one among television's most much loved big brothers while Robbie Douglas within the long-running 1960s struck "My Three Sons," kicked the bucket Wednesday. He has been 68.

His "My Three Sons" co-star Barry Livingston, who trialled youngest sibling Ernie, proved Grady's passing away in order to The Associated Press. Livingston said Grady had been experiencing cancer as well as obtaining hospice proper care at his or her property in Thousand Oaks, Calif. But the precise lead to and place associated with passing ended up not without delay clear.

"It's the most ancient cliche on earth any time TV brothers begin mentioning both for instance biological brothers, but your dog ended up being this oldest, and anyone I viewed about in addition to mastered at a a lot with regards to life," Livingston said.

Born throughout San Diego when Don Louis Agrati, Grady had a short stint singing and dance on "The Mickey Mouse Club" starting up at age group 13.

But they was most widely known united of Fred MacMurray's "My Three Sons" about the series that will went on ABC in addition to later CBS from 1960 in order to 1972.

The favorite show, which featured MacMurray being a widowed aeronautical engineer fighting for you to raise three older boys, was one of several longest managing family sitcoms at this moment with 380 episodes.

In your show's before years, Grady was in fact the middle brother, by using Tim Considine using the oldest, Mike, plus Stanley Livingston enjoying the particular youngest, Chip. When Considine departed, Barry Livingston became the actual followed "third" son, and Grady turned your cool, tidy and certain eldest brother that a great deal regarding America adored.

A musical prodigy, Grady been seen in which has a band, the Greefs, from the series, in addition to with actual living played drums to get The Yellow Balloon, who possessed a new trivial strike that has a self-titled track in 1967.

He created a small number of wedding guest appearances on TV sequence throughout the 1970s along with 1980s, nevertheless he toiled principally being a musician and also composer, crafting the actual motif with regard to "The Phil Donahue Show" as well as new music for any Blake Edwards video "Switch" and the popular Las Vegas indicate "EFX," some sort of present with regard to "Phantom of the Opera" superstar Michael Crawford.

"The one serious through-line throughout his life ended up being music," Livingston said. "I would likely feel Don sooo want to possibly be valued for his great audio as often as being a teenage idol along with television system icon."