Martin Mull, ‘Clue’ and ‘Arrested Development’ actor, dies at 80
2024-06-29T01:26:24.925ZMartin Mull at an event in New York in May 2018. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)Martin Mull, the comedian, musician and actor who played Colonel Mustard in the 1985 film “Clue” and had memorable guest-starring roles on TV comedies such as “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” and “Arrested Development,” died Thursday at his home. He was 80.His daughter, Maggie Mull, confirmed the news in a post on social media and said he died after a long illness.Mr. Mull, who was known for his musical comedy as well as his painting, gained initial popularity as an actor in the 1970s with roles in the TV series “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” and its spinoff “Fernwood 2 Night.” He was known for his role as Principal Willard Kraft on the ’90s sitcom “Sabrina,” the disguise-addicted detective Gene Parmesan on “Arrested Development,” and for a long-running part on “Roseanne,” originally as the titular character’s boss.“I am heartbroken to share that my father passed away at home on June 27, after a valiant fight against a long illness,” Mr. Mull’s daughter said in an Instagram post Friday evening.“He was known for excelling at every creative discipline imaginable and also for doing Red Roof Inn commercials. He would find that joke funny. He was never not funny,” she wrote.Mr. Mull was known for his “dry, humorless delivery and a bland, highly conservative-looking demeanor, which masked a sly, witty and ultrahip philosophy,” according to his biography on IMDb.Before his film career, he was also the practice squad kicker for the Cleveland Browns, according to the film website.Mr. Mull is survived by his wife, Wendy, and daughter Maggie.“My dad will be deeply missed by his wife and daughter, by his friends and coworkers, by fellow artists and comedians and musicians, and — the sign of a truly exceptional person — by many, many dogs. I loved him tremendously,” Maggie Mull said in her Instagram post.
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Martin Mull, the comedian, musician and actor who played Colonel Mustard in the 1985 film “Clue” and had memorable guest-starring roles on TV comedies such as “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” and “Arrested Development,” died Thursday at his home. He was 80.
His daughter, Maggie Mull, confirmed the news in a post on social media and said he died after a long illness.
Mr. Mull, who was known for his musical comedy as well as his painting, gained initial popularity as an actor in the 1970s with roles in the TV series “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” and its spinoff “Fernwood 2 Night.” He was known for his role as Principal Willard Kraft on the ’90s sitcom “Sabrina,” the disguise-addicted detective Gene Parmesan on “Arrested Development,” and for a long-running part on “Roseanne,” originally as the titular character’s boss.
“I am heartbroken to share that my father passed away at home on June 27, after a valiant fight against a long illness,” Mr. Mull’s daughter said in an Instagram post Friday evening.
“He was known for excelling at every creative discipline imaginable and also for doing Red Roof Inn commercials. He would find that joke funny. He was never not funny,” she wrote.
Mr. Mull was known for his “dry, humorless delivery and a bland, highly conservative-looking demeanor, which masked a sly, witty and ultrahip philosophy,” according to his biography on IMDb.
Before his film career, he was also the practice squad kicker for the Cleveland Browns, according to the film website.
Mr. Mull is survived by his wife, Wendy, and daughter Maggie.
“My dad will be deeply missed by his wife and daughter, by his friends and coworkers, by fellow artists and comedians and musicians, and — the sign of a truly exceptional person — by many, many dogs. I loved him tremendously,” Maggie Mull said in her Instagram post.
